Time Stamps: 0:00 - Ze Beginning 1:49 - Missile One: Small Remote-Guided HEAT CIWS 13:18 - Missile Two: Large Frag-Penetrator Torpedo 25:56 - Missile Three: Medium Short-Range Guided RPG 31:07 - Missile Four: Small Kinetic Swarmer 42:53 - Missile Five: Large Swarmers 48:41 - Missile Six: Large HEAT-SAM 57:32 - Missile Seven: Large Kinetic

Speaking of missile tricks.... Volleys that aren't all one sort of missile. With a swarm, give the ones that fire first the reinforced bodies, and the ones near the end actual warheads. Similarly, take advantage of guided missiles all aiming for the same block, and set it up so that missiles that make deep holes hit first and ones with a blast radius to hopefully go right on into that hole.

Casualy mentioning how borderwise makes hour long videos with no mid roll ads

"created when a HEAT torpedo experiment went stupid shaped" d-did i just realise why I suck at FTD? am I SUPPOSED to play this game drunk?!

Some of my favorite missiles are just extremely high-velocity unguided rockets with thumper heads. Especially in the large missile size, because the speed = damage thing means a cheapo 3 or 4 component rocket can inflict ludicrous damage relatively cheaply. The only problem is, being unguided, they are only suitable for attacking very nearby, very large, or stationary targets.

1h for 7 missiles, very borderwise like

Yes hello, Lifelong resident of Glasgow. Not offended as you're fairly on the money with what you said. You should call it the "Glesga kiss" as that's what we call a headbutt around here. Love the content, keep it up please.

Why no clustermissiles? You can go mental on clustermissiles. The possibilities!

ACKCHYUALLY RPG does not stand for rocket-propelled grenade, that's a backronym. The actual meaning of RPG is Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot, which translates into English as handheld anti-tank grenade launcher. Also, thumper heads, like the shaped charge head, do not have any seeker! You need to use them either with beamrider guidance, or with remote guidance.

Oh god, imagine flak AA missiles... Just... Nimble little flak missiles

My favorite design is a massive thumper dumbfire rocket with a short range thruster. Batch of 8 punches straight through the Tyr. More expensive than your average DWG craft.

Definitely gonna start mixing in more frag warheads into my large missiles and torpedoes after seeing their potential here and definitely gonna mess around with large thump damage missiles

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My favorite Missile is a large missile with a thumper head, 2 explosive heads, and a fragment head. I've seen just one missile sink a craft. Works even better as a torpedo. Thumper penetrates, explosion clears out a massive hole, and then the frag flows through to blow up the sensitive bits. I will grant I use HUGE large missiles because I think they look cool =)

The first missile I ever made when I started FtD was a top airburst frag missile, I'd made it fully aware it'd be kinda bad, but it's funny to have a missile the fires into the air, then comes down on the enemy and detonates like 5 meters above them and rains frag over them.

*@BorderWise* 31:10 You should put that "swarm-block" on a spin-block or turret and point it at 45 degree up for some more range :)

I love these kinds of videos where you showcase abstract ammo types. Gives me new ideas and it’s always extremely entertaining watching them batter targets!

If you set the frag come to 1 and have a lot of fragment modules, you can penetrate an incredible amount of armor, it can easily go through an entire ship.

I personally like to use large remote guidence thumper head high explosive missiles But i think i will try out some of your designs

Waky: everything missile including cluster with everything

Manual aim with the laser designator is really nice. You can setup a command ship with the designator, and have your fleet use the receiver and they will all shoot whatever target you paint with the laser. HEAT torps get the damage buff for HE and are able to frag the internals. The medium RPG's can be unguided and should be able to hit just fine with a bit more boom. One of my favorites is a smart bombing HEAT bomber to punch through the often squishy deck.

it's my B-day , borderwise post a vidéo about what i like the most . Missiles . Whacky missiles *happy explosions noises*

RPG means personnel mountable anti-tank weaponry so yes it is technically an RPG

How about towing a sonar buoy? Afaik such a sonar buoy would act as a 360 active sonar that an enemy passive sonar would see as just a floating sonar buoy which would be quite nice for a stealth sub. While not exactly a “whacky missile/torpedo” it's still a neat trick you could’ve mentioned offhandedly.

Place IR seekers on two axis turrets and have beam rider on the back, turret wth the beam, ride missile close to target there IR head can see and lock on the target (also sometime can help with targeting if lots of IR decoys in the air, SOMETIMES). Also if you ever want to build DUMB FIRE missiles aka Katysha or GRAD here's solution, again two axis turret, place two part APS firing piece and input, made shell at exact same speed as you missiles, VOILA ABSOLUTELY POINTLESS aps NOW WORK AS BALLISTIC COMPUTER TO YOUR unguided missile salvo. Update: Setting required accuracy for missiles to 0.1 is really help, short range thruster is a must for AA, thumper head small missiles salo is DEVASTATING if hits. Also don't be ME and don't forget to place mantlet on APS (facepalm) In order for this to work properly you have to have aps weapon controller to control turret itself (place on turret right above turret block and within two block of APS firing piece), this way turret will try to target APS weapon system NOT missiles (!!!this is important!!!) missile controller !!!SHOULD NOT CONTROL TURRET!!! it should only control missile system (make sure speed of missile and shell are equile or accuracy will be poor, shell range should not be LONGER then MAX missile fuel), another plus of the system it will work as target prediction and will launch missile slightly or severely ahead making it more diffiquilt to dodge, this way it also can work as flak, small and medium missiles can be equipped with -proximity fuse- (BTW EMP can transfer via air on short distances (1-3 blocks of AIR (i am not kidding)) Thank you for like. Stuff i write is tested by myself and really no, REALLY easy and fast to build (also cheap) : )

I love spamming small missles on my ships and adding a stagger fire thingy, so fun to fight the deep water guard with it

Honestly, I don't care when you get distracted by stuff. Makes you dispense (what a funny word) cool facts.

I think the word you're looking for is "Short Range Missile." A rocket cannot have guidance. A missile is a guided rocket.

playing with silly missiles is the most fun i've had on FTD so far. i just finished an airship called "The Tits" that drops something half way between a missile and a bomb i like to call "death sprinkles", no thrusters but fins and radar guided, and magnets for if they miss. they're small missiles but there's so many of them it uses about 5k ammo per volley.

The kinetic swarmers are a bit like my prototype of beamrider supersonic rockets designed for heavy armor cracking with thump damage. Due to its speed boosted by ejection and short range boosters, it can easily overshoot at close range if the turret aim is a bit off. The beamrider was an afterthought to keep the missiles aimed at longer ranges.

On account to the first one, my first AA APS can take down 3 shrikes if they start 2km away, so your statement holds up

The guided short-range RPG missiles would come in handy for an interceptor craft that does dogfights with other planes because they are most definitely faster than any jet the Steel Striders have to offer and they're not too large so you can put them on a plane quite easily

How much would the frag torps benefit from changing the frag offset? i just realized this is a good place to use that.

Hm... Thems some nice torpedos!

Interesting that ICBMs in this game are neither big or hot, but I'd say they probably are IRL

It would be fun for nukes to be a wide scale emp if they explode in space.

Interesting, I've never had issues with IR guidance. From my experience it never fails to target a CJE or a simple jet, which is deadly against planes. If you're having trouble locking on then the single-pixel IR guidance is actually even better, since it needs less heat to lock onto something. The limited FOV can be easily counteracted by strapping the missiles onto a two-axis turret.

how would anyone think you wouldn't fire at a marauder. its practically a legal requirement when testing weapons. You HAVE to fire at a marauder at some point

Really good at punching holes in holes? Hmm, interesting

those torpedo's are absolutely devastating

Ze beginning

At 12:56 amazing moment!

YAY BORDER WISE CONTENT WE GET TO TAKE A TRIP TO CANADA NOW WHEEEEEEEEE EXPLOSIONS

33:35 Borderwise, the 300 m is for altitude.

41:48 *waves back* Speaking for my self, no, not offended. Need a thick skin to "greet" people.

For better detection place detection on one or two axis turrets

Shaped frag torps for the winner

APN is better for Torps, it's a pinned comment on the FtD discord on which missile guidance to use by one of the devs. Usually TPG is better for near max velocity, but not aimed at target, like VLS. Were the thumper heads using Laser rider or remote?

I'm having such a hard time trying to counter a Black Current spam... might try those frag torpedoes of yours

Smart bombs are the best

Borderwise, I would like to pose you a question. How would one go around designing cluster munitions with the maximum number of explosions you can possibly get into swarm or cluster missiles, bombs or shells?

I thought they removed torpedo underwater explosion bonus a few patches ago?

Is it just me, or do I remember the devs removing the HE underwater buff, due to the new power missiles?

Cram fuse guide?

when you forget to click the bell

Ah yes, pleasing b o o m

46:49 Chemical warheads would be interesting, or not, considering the lack of actual biological people in this game.

Hey

you should honestly cut the videos down, 1h is way too long. Your videos are very helpful but it is a bit tideous trying to find the certain information im searching for