New support option link not yet in standard description: gmodism-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/sign_in Thanks again to our current supporters at Patreon and KZfaq memberships!!!!!! Introduction 0:06 - Welcome back and personal health update. 0:45 - Overview of the video's content. Battleship Design Tips 0:53 - Introduction to winning battleship designs. 1:30 - Tip 1: Importance of redundancy in design. 4:31 - Tip 2: The benefits of bulky designs. 4:59 - Defining what a battleship is in the context of the game. 5:19 - Tip 3: The advantage of underwater component placement. 6:54 - Tip 4: Preference for passive floatation. 9:33 - Tip 5: Armor scheme strategies. 11:02 - Tip 6: The importance of air gaps in armor. 12:02 - Tip 7: Only armor what needs protection. 13:42 - Tip 8: EMP insulation for critical components. 15:14 - Tip 9: Effective weapon combinations. 18:16 - Tip 10: The importance of aipods for maneuverability. 19:44 - Tip 11: Managing material spend on active defenses. 22:45 - Tip 12: Adding decoration to battleships. Conclusion 23:33 - Final thoughts and encouragement for decoration. 24:01 - Personal update and future content plans. 24:35 - Supporting the channel and final words.

I haven't been on FTD for a while, only a few times when I get some free time while in college, but to whatever disease you are infected with, I hope you stay well Gmodism 👍

APFRAG for railguns is quite effective against craft with lots of spaced armour, especially compared to APHE. Also crams are almost useless against evasive airships while railguns are decent against slow ships and terrifyingly effective against thrustercraft.

Glad to see you back. I recently downloaded the Gimli and have been testing against it. I made a 2.9mil ship as a first attempt to take it down. I love APS so i have multiple high rpm ciws/attack turrets, as well as a some 500mm sabot railguns set to attack underwater. Went heavy on the lams and planar shields. I must say, the Gimli is just so hard to actually kill. My ship usually lasts until the 500k mats are gone, but i have yet to actually score a kill. And once your Crams get through it is over for me as I built too compact. Ive riddled the whole ship full of holes and it just doesnt go down. The Gimili is an amazingly durable ship. Well done.

Glad to hear about your recovery, hope you get well soon. One other point about decorative elements such as superstructure is that they're good aimpoint magnets to buy the rest of the ship some time not being shot at.

Great tips! Wasn't expecting to see Drakky in this video, so that was a nice surprise. Very good advice on using decorations, it goes a long way to help motivate you to finish your designs. Especially if they are big! 👍

Good to hear you are feeling better!

I will put this information to good use.

Hope you have recovered from the illness/infection. Keep up the good FTD content.

Nice. Remember for passive float, stuff it full of wood. Also, if memory serves the AP of HESH is based on an average of all blocks the shockwave passes through so having several layers of wood after a hard outer layer with a hard spall catcher after the air gap can greatly neuter the damage of HESH(think: Metal-Wood-Wood-Wood-Wood-air-air-sloped HA/stacked metal, could do one air as well to save space although that will have reduced impact on HEAT although GMODISM's WiP hull handles that will multiple air gaps and spall catchers). Also, for active thrust tilt your propellers/thrusters to add a bit of vertical to their output(it'll drop speed a smidge) but will save you some altitude control power(note this doesn't replace the need for altitude thrusters when under active float only reduces their load when you are moving forward) And remember a 400 meter long, 50 meter wide blimp may float for free but will burn up a $2000 laptop if you poke a hole in it with sectioning off the air bladders(i'm not speaking from experience, it just made the game crash on every system i loaded it into if i deleted a block).

Nice. Thank you for the video and tips. Any chance of a breadboard video soon due to the update this week? I am sure you can have some fun with that. :)

@Gmodism, What is the absolute meta for armor spacing in 2024? I am curious about your vote for 4m wedges vs. poles and what the orientation of what those should be (i.e., sharp edge of wedges vertical or horizontal?). Thanks!

I see, I'm building too compact and without enough armor, although i do tend to build fairly small but expensive builds.

How can people not spawn in large ships i play on a laptopb

hi people. is there a way for prevent clipping of barrels? i just build triple superimposed cannons, and place each ones barrel top of other for prevent shooting mysel but barrels going inside of front gun and hit it :D or when enemy is behind, my front guns still trying to fire and shoot my guns or superstructure. i can fix latter by build a limiter but can't find a solution to prevent gun depression.

Damm, didnt know take care of yourself!

I can't play From the depths because my computer is neglected by my parents. It's currently out of commision due to a failing hard drive, outdated hardware and software. I always wanted to make battleships of my own but I am restricted to paper and pencil.

So why not just replace some metal with alloy? Why all the props?

Promo sm 😑

Nerf wood