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"Ironsides" class heavy cruiser

Description
Inspired by the Rockman cruisers from FTL, the Bulwark and the Shivan.

Length: 78m
Width: 69m
Height: 21m
Mass: ~2.7 kt
Thrusters: 72 rear, 24 sides, 26 top-bottom, 8 front
Variants: A (orange), B (black and red)

There are 2 included layouts in here. The black one with the central bridge is somewhat better than the orange one, IMHO. Because of the heavy armor components, they weigh in at about 2.7 kt.

Variant A has room for 5 crew whereas variant B has room for 6 crew. Variant A has about 60% more cargo space and has both fore and aft airlocks. Variant B has a second refinery and several internal anti-personnel defense turrets.
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Johnald P. Redham 4 Feb, 2015 @ 7:14pm 
If you want to join us on a survival server that just started up, we'd be happy to have you.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/spacebattlesandsurvival

Your ship is on the list to build, might be a few weeks but I'll get to it eventually.

LCCX  [author] 1 Feb, 2015 @ 4:22pm 
I'd also suggest that this ship could benefit from cameras and a communications antenna.
LCCX  [author] 1 Feb, 2015 @ 4:20pm 
This ship was designed pre-conveyors. I still like how it looks, so I've not trashed it, but yeah... That is what KeenSWH's weekly updates will do. :)
Johnald P. Redham 31 Jan, 2015 @ 3:12pm 
Not conveyered or survival ready! The Horror!~

Going to be a bit of work. I'm tearing out the 3 inner floors and hooking everything up. The cockpit, rear entrance and outside is perfect already of course, and turret placement is spot on. Going to remove all industrial stuff as well. This is a pure combat ship for me.
Johnald P. Redham 29 Jan, 2015 @ 5:01pm 
Feel free to enlist my aid whenever you want.
LCCX  [author] 29 Jan, 2015 @ 2:45pm 
Thanks! That is good to know. I don't have a group to play SE with right now, so it isn't too feasible to actually test these things.
Johnald P. Redham 29 Jan, 2015 @ 12:21pm 
This design is very effective. The only considerations I'd give are to mix the gun turrets, keep misiles fore, gatlins aft and sides for missile defense. Plus the internals are just too much back and forth, boarding parties are the last of your concerns, one or 2 doublebacks is plenty, I think I counted 20 on the second ship, too much. Just makes it annoying for those that use the ship, no matter how neat I think they are.

Robust and takess a beating with great defensive coverage from turrets, full sphere almost. The 2 interior turrets at aft turn out to be very important, as that's one area that's vulnerable to close attack, keep them on low range and they surprise tiny ships.

Great Work. Going to remodel it a bit and use it as a mobile medium defensive emplacement for forward bases. Give her about 30 m/s and a small yaw tilt with a gyro and she'll orbit for years at 1 km from your base.