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[Bien]

Those barrels are placeholders actually. But the weapons mounted in the turrets are going to be railguns. And an unarmored block isn't going to look cool?

[Heron TSG]

And an unarmored block isn't going to look cool?

I'm not saying it would, I'm just wondering why that shape specifically. It could be to avoid radar detection for all I know. That aside, your question was about the size of the battery...

I don't know how big your railgun will be, but if it's about the size of those barrels there... It'll definitely be able to crush smaller ships, but I'm not sure how effective it would be on larger ships such as the one you're designing. It might make some dents, but it wouldn't break a decently armored hull of sufficient magnitude.

[Cthulhu]

The barrels seem a tad undersized for a weapon that shape, but I suppose you could justify that by wanting to reduce the 'kick' as much as possible. Is there a reason that the turret is shaped like that in particular, though? One meter tall doesn't allow anyone to be inside, so it's probably unmanned. If that's the case, why add the details and not just make the whole thing one big armored block?

Just trying to help with 'realism'.

The part of the turret outside the ship isn't necessarily the entire thing.  There could be a cage extending from the bottom of it with a seat for the gunner.

Also, a block is really bad, because there's more surface area and it would allow for straight-on hits by missiles.

[Bien]

And: 32 Inch Railguns

[xtank5]

32 inches long or wide?  Also, nice.

[Shoku]

And suddenly the size of the ship has some actual meaning.

But if the turrets are all along the top like that (and presumably along the bottom) it seems like there is a large blind spot right above them. You'd need wide sides so you could have a side row (given how much it seems like these could pivot) and then instead of a roughly diamond shaped cross section you would instead have an octagon. That much more reason to not even try to have full turret coverage but rather be able to turn quickly to bring the strong line of cannons into alignment and if you're doing that I don't see why this shape for the ship helps.


I can't understand where the "ion beam" weapon you mentioned is though.

[Bien]

Well. You've got rule of cool. I won't try to explain it as anything else, it's just that. Rule of cool. The ion beam's also built into the upper half of the bow, haven't gotten around to modeling the actual projectors though.
And:

[Shoku]

Because this isn't a ship in water I can't tell where the water line would be so I've got no idea wh-
ok, know what? I think this is the gun:

[Bien]

Damn. Been a while since I posted here. And yeah, that's where the cannon's supposed to be.