Modded war fleet

[RandomGuy1824]

I have downloaded thr BDarmory mod and wanted to start making armed fleets. I was wondering what was the most important type of craft in a war fleet, plane, space cruiser, tank? I would also appreciate design help for the craft. Thanks in advance!

Edited December 22, 2016 by RandomGuy1824
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[Guest]

I'd recommend taking a look at Children of a Dead Earth if you want to explore realistic space combat. Some points courtesy of community minmaxing:

• Good weapons: micromissiles (either pure kinetic or carrying a nuclear-formed penetrator); gigawatt lasers (generally in the green–violet range, the ideal would be nuclear-pumped X-ray but good luck getting that to not explode).
• No conventional armour offers any meaningful defence against these weapons, but a thin layer for flash protection might make itself useful.
• Ideal propulsion is nuclear pulse. Barring that, having both MPDs and NTRs for efficient transfers and high-thrust combat manoeuvres respectively is very valuable. They should use the same propellant, ideally one of the -ane hydrocarbons (methane through decane).
• Nuclear power is the only viable electrical solution considering the use of lasers and MPDs.
• You can safely store fluorine and water in lithium tanks.

So the most important and in fact only type of warship is just a tube with lasers on one end, a torchdrive on the other, and missile silos in the middle. It's also a porcupine covered in white-hot radiators. Well okay, you might want to carry drones instead of missiles, but they're still effectively disposable munitions and a far cry from fully-fledged warships.

Useful mods considering the above:

And if you wanna go into futuristic stuff:

 

Edited December 22, 2016 by Guest

[RandomGuy1824]

4 minutes ago, String Witch said:

I'd recommend taking a look at Children of a Dead Earth if you want to explore realistic space combat. Some points courtesy of community minmaxing:

• Good weapons: micromissiles (either pure kinetic or carrying a nuclear-formed penetrator); gigawatt lasers (generally in the green–violet range, the ideal would be nuclear-pumped X-ray but good luck getting that to not explode).
• No conventional armour offers any meaningful defence against these weapons, but a thin layer for flash protection might make itself useful.
• Ideal propulsion is nuclear pulse. Barring that, having both MPDs and NTRs for efficient transfers and high-thrust combat manoeuvres respectively is very valuable. They should use the same propellant, ideally one of the -ane hydrocarbons (methane through decane).
• Nuclear power is the only viable electrical solution considering the use of lasers and MPDs.
• You can safely store fluorine and water in lithium tanks.

So the most important and in fact only type of warship is just a tube with lasers on one end, a torchdrive on the other, and missile silos in the middle. It's also a porcupine covered in white-hot radiators.

Useful mods considering the above:

And if you wanna go into futuristic stuff:

 

Thank you!