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HMAS Armageddon

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Avem Empire Airships
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Here's the seventh post of the third round of Avem Empire airships! I'll be doubling my fleet size in this update, so make sure to check out all the other designs.

I uploaded HMAS Bombardment in the last round of uploads, ad at the time I mentioned one critical flaw: her large starboard gasbag got in the way of her CRAM shots against ships that use their right broadside, which is the AI default used by most faction ships. Well, I've remedied that by creating a mirrored version. Behold, the Armageddon! With the same six CRAMs facing forward and sixty APS to the broadside, this airship packs a punch. Use her CRAMs against big and slow targets, and the broadside when facing smaller enemies or targets with a strong LAMS. Position her correctly in a fleet battle and you can use both! She also features a strong 360rpm CIWS mounted near the front of the main gasbag. This thing, combined with her uneven movement, makes her practically invulnerable to CRAMs and moderately protected against missiles and APS. She's quite cheap for her size, though, so I think she does alright.

I have to give credit to 𝕰 𝖝 𝖎 𝖘 𝖙 𝖊 𝖓 𝖈 𝖊 for taking these screenshots for me. He did a phenomenal job with it. Also keep in mind that the colors and reflections and overall appearance of my airships will vary significantly based on your graphics settings, so feel free to mess with your settings and the paint colors until you get them to look how you like.

Also, feel free to join the United Builders Discord! We'll sometimes have weekly FtD events (adventure, campaign, or designer) and the community is great. It's also where I share a lot of my WIP pictures, so if you want to see more of my work you can find it there. Here's the invite: https://discord.gg/NdBpnFM8vF Just read the rules and send a message in #foyer and we'll let you into the rest of the server.

Make sure to check out some of my other designs, too!
Here's my workshop collection: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274580607
And here are all the other individual ships, labelled by their type.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274542925 - Escort Ship HMES Action
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274538050 - Escort Ship HMES Orbiter
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274511376 - Destroyer HMES Independence
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274568329 - Assault Ship HMAS Resolution
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274611124 - Battlecruiser HMLS Unity
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274625948 - Battleship HMLS Monarch
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2304348526 - Flamethrower Tugboat HMAS Flammenwerfer
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412166759 - Flamethrower Tugboat HMAS Flammenwerfer (B variant)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2279543070 - Light Cruiser HMLS Mirror
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412154860 - Light Cruiser HMLS Mirror (B variant)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412302998 - Bombardment Ship HMAS Bombardment
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412271190 - Cargo Ship HMTS Zebra
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412262614 - Destroyer HMES Adventure
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2412254207 - Carrier Ship Benevolence
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673509786 - Dreadnought HMLS Nassau
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673513471 - Panzerschiff HMLS Raider
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673518862 - Monitor HMLS Warrior
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673523946 - Protected Cruiser HMLS Fortitude
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673530737 - Minelayer HMES Jester
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673536771 - Destroyer Escort HMES Rapid
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673542020 - Bombardment Ship HMAS Armageddon
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673549884 - Destroyer HMAS Vengeance
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673554695 - Destroyer HMLS Zenith
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673560787 - Heavy Cruiser HMLS Conqueror
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673566780 - Heavy Cruiser HMLS Excellence
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673572257 - Shipyard & Resource Base
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2673574745 - Resource Outpost Spheros
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2678018315 - Support Cruiser HMLS Respite
4 Comments
MizarLuke  [author] 23 May, 2022 @ 9:52am 
The broadside guns are definitely underwhelming, but at 200k its in the same cost bracket as small cruisers and big DDs. I typically use the broadside against small enemies or enemies with strong LAMS, and the siege guns for the rest. If you want it to use the forward facing CRAMs you need to change the AI behavior in the C menu. That'll change it from circling to frontsiding.

I'm surprised you had trouble with the durability of it. In my experience it usually stays far enough away that it doesn't draw much fire if its in a fleet, and it has CIWS to protect it from CRAMs and missiles and it kinda flies erratically so even cannons usually miss. I bet lasers would tear it apart, but that's never a match I've tested. Most of the airships aren't designed for that, just HMAS Vengeance.
The Smoking Man 21 May, 2022 @ 3:50pm 
I love all of your work, but this specific ship feels a bit expensive for it's effectiveness. The look of it thrills me, but the broadside just sort of plinks off of heavily armored targets, and I've never managed to get the thing to fire it's forward facing guns in combat. I've had to drag the dead blueprint back for repair more often than I do my pair of Orbiters that just refuse to die. I tell myself that I'll replace the Orbiters with something like an Independence once they break, and then throw them into a suicide mission. They always win. The've taken on everything from laser equipped cruisers, and missile equipped jets and just putter away like this is Tuesday for them. Still though, I can't bring myself to scrap the good 'ol Armageddon. She sits proud above my home base now, ready to go out with the first wave if something should ever threaten my home waters. The Orbiters handle the assault work now, ha ha.
MizarLuke  [author] 9 Dec, 2021 @ 4:20pm 
Does it say HMLS somewhere or do you think it should be? It was originally classified as a line ship, but I changed it to an assault designation because it was more specialist. It could go either way, really, but because of the fixed main armament and the inability to fight equally on the broadsides, I called it an assault ship.
Rockboi 8 Dec, 2021 @ 11:36am 
You names this post the HMAS Armageddon, not HMLS Armageddon