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SV-L7-Mini-Armrd-Gnship

A fully armored mini-gunship that tries to minimize resource needs while still packing good defense and offense all while being available at level 7.


I was messing around with upgrading the pre-fab tier1 mini-sv and stumbled upon the original in the workshop, the "The Lil-Lootr-(LV7)" created by wahnfriedenator:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=910361200

By permission of the original author, I have posted my modification on the original design.


I took that design and started messing around a bit more until I came up with this final design that completely has the Lil Lootr at its core with some tweaking that I feel still holds true to the original. I use this version to take on 4 or 5 drones at one time and come out with minimal damage, sometimes one-shotting the small drones. It can survive multiple plasma hits from base cannons, but I have yet to use it against base weaponry as that is beyond its design intentions.


This design requires 44 more iron, 32 more copper and 27 more silicon than the original Lil Lootr, plus 30 Sathium that the Lil Lootr does not.

I personally balance that out by scavenging hardened/combat steel blocks, or if I am stuck with the survival tool, components from hardened/combat steel blocks from downed capital ships or small "unknown" POI's early game and feed those to the factory to fulfill the Sathium need. For the curious Alpha 8 requires 60 hardened steel plate or 12 hardened steel blocks or 8 combat steel blocks to obtain 30 sathium, with 8 combat steel providing 32 sathium in the factory.


Gritty details:

* existing steel blocks replaced with hardened steel.
* core moved forward one block and an additional downward engine added in the old core location. Otherwise this puppy had too much weight to leave the ground.
* All other components remained in their locations and armor cladding was added in key areas for an additonal layer of protection.
* All interactive cargo/ammo/fridge/O2 components are still usable from outside the ship due to the use of partial blocks.
* The Landing pads where changed out to full height pads and 1 more was added in the back for balance.
* 4 more gats were added to the weapons to max that out at 6.
* The nose cone geometry was changed to accomodate a spotlight protected with an armored window and 2 downward lights were added underneath.
* 3 small blocks were added on top of the nose to increase cabin protection.
* Finally a paint job was applied to give it an industrialish look, or at least my take on that look :-).



Lil Lootr by wahnfriedenator resource requirements:
Copper - 102
Iron - 78
Silicon - 71

Resource requirements for this mini-gunship:
copper - 134
Iron - 122
Silicon - 98
Sathium - 30