Might be more vulnerable than the drakenslang against crams and slow aps, given how tall it is

The turret necks… my armour ocd… oh god

I think that 8 meter guns have the potential to be the strongest railgun shell. You get a super penatrator that also packs a good payload. Armor is useless. Ive noticed that smaller shells dont do that as well. 400mm seems to be around the sweet spot. I did the math a while back. I'm going to do it again in a few weeks when I make my giant battleship.

Hey there Borderwise. Just thinking- my own general go-to CIWs shell tends to be: HH, stab fin, HE body, stab fin, base bleeder, gunpowder out to 20. As long as the center of the munition is within the HE radius- so CRAM, small missiles, medium missiles usually... that bit of HE ends up making each shell worth more damage overall than straight kinetic (which compounds a lot with the high fire rates). And it's not enough HE damage to chain react in the clip. That said, it would end up a different clip to cooler ratio than yours and that might throw everything off. Still, I wanted to pass it along as a really good 'kinetic' CIWs shell. Though the HE won't work against some large and most huge missiles. It's just something that might be of interest for you in experimenting with to determine what you like better.

i really like aps frag shells with 1 or 2 frag units and 2-3 incindiary bits with a time det fuze to explode afew meters before the target, the frags help the fire break blocks and spread it seems!

Very fun to listen to this in the background, ty.

i think it needs more freeboard and less barbette like their is literally more barbette then actual hull on your metal canoe

Nice! Didn't know until now you where working on something BIG, well awesome, will be fun to see how it unfolds, and cool the Davidos finally made you wanna build something big! also, looking at those wells... APHEAT vulnerability?

We could name this big risky thing the Riskantslang:)

Using thrusters for stability might work, general pids work nicely for this

hmmm. thoose turret wells look interesting. but they house some big ass guns so i like them haha

The turret lettering you are thinking of is probably the British system from the first world war. Front turrets are "A", "B", "C". etc. (usually only A and B). Aft turrets are "X","Y", "Z". (if one has more than three one would have to start before "X". but again, usually only two turrets here.) And amidships turrets are "P", "Q", etc. Mind, this is for dreadnought "all big gun" style ships with a uniform main battery. Your first and last five turrets would probably be counted separately. So something like. "tertiary A,B,C. Secondary A,B. Primary A,B,C,X,Y,Z. Secondary X,Y. Tertiary X,Y,Z. There is no clear break with a separate amidships battery so "P", and "Q", are unused. You can of course, do it however you want.

I have a name proposal: Reenslang which means “Rain snake” because of the torrent of shells.

42:27 Your non-discarding sabot frag sandblaster does not have supercavitation bases. Edit: Kudos, you noticed!

You could make the ship alloy top and heavy armored brick as "Counterweight" and engine

why is it so tall its cursed. if the hull ain't buf enough for the gun dont do it. gross. inefficent. inherently unstable. impossible to armor

The American Croissant

Why would you have armour on all sides of those 7x7 ciws turrets. Most of the time you'll be facing one actually scary enemy at the time and in the unlikely case they'll actually get shot from behind, protecting against that is way less useful than increasing the firerate or even better, front armor of the turrets. (Move the whole firing machinery back a block) you'll have about the same amount of armour but way stronger turret. You can make them prefer to face the bigger enemies or even with some clever rulesets, have it face the munition coming close to the specific turret. A better ship for completely free. Edit: oh and please do the same for the main guns, maybe even switch the plain metal blocks for more of a frontsider armour and use 1m ha or metal wedges backed by metal. This will considerably help with heat and hesh (also listen to GMODISM and add the extra airgap to help your survivability even further) ALSO, I use beltfed ciws turrets where I can, so consider having at least two of those 7x7 turrets be beltfed and you can even have all of them if you mess with the rulesets to have them a bit more staggered in their reloading phases. As an extra trick, you can move back the "inside neck" and firing pieces to have more armour in the front. You'll also protect a longer portion of your barrels with the turret cap.

@BorderWise Hi! I'm loving your content! Only very recently started FTD and I learned a lot already. One thing I can't seem to get working is using an ACB to fire a weapon (missile launcher in this case) without using a local weapon controller. I need to use the whole shebang - missile controller, local weapon controller, connection to AI... and the ACB for the specific effect I need (auto-launching radar buoys on a 1 min interval). I have seen this done in an old video without needing a local weapon controller What am I missing?

Great idea on the ciws suicide craft controls, stealing that for adventure mode

I have made 1 boat in FTD and its upper 1/3rd is alloy for stability. The turret kept jamming (it had full 360 turning but it'd just lock up after a random amount of time; I had one still working after an hour but I've had one that was locked up from spawn) and I took a little break going on 4 months now.

I have a question; Why did you go with this design over a more standard hull? It seems unstable and it is INSANELY frail for the cost. As much as I love putting two many guns with unintelligent building on my array of incompletely projects, this seems like a really weird design choice. Also a recomendation, although it's a bit late into the building for it, I found the extremely rapid fire kinetic rounds at 150-250mm will literally MELT things. It's also fun to watch 👍

37mm gang on top

i can't be on the stream