From The Depths

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HMLS Excellence

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Avem Empire Airships
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Here's the eleventh 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. Excellence is the last warship, but make sure to check out the bases, too.

Excellence is my second dedicated heavy cruiser, and Conqueror's larger cousin. Excellence features four twin 200mm APS firing frag at 75rpm per firing piece. She also has six two-barreled secondaries in a hexagonal layout like you can see on late-war American cruisers. And, of course, she also has the obligatory AA spam wherever there's free space. There isn't too much else to say about her. She's got a relatively basic and symmetric armament. I thought about giving her CRAM broadside guns but didn't really have the space. She's rather expensive, but that cost is worth it for the power of her main armament. Oh, and the secondaries function as CIWS, too. They're only 120rpm, so they can't down an entire Bulwark salvo or anything, but they're helpful against CRAMs and missiles.

Like all my other airships, Excellence can go 50m/s and has a cruising speed set at 40m/s.

I hope you like her. Let me know with a comment if you've got any feedback or thoughts.

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 Dec, 2024 @ 1:04pm 
There may be a tutorial out at some point, so watch Hawkins656's channel for that...
Purple77 22 Dec, 2024 @ 12:20pm 
how do i make these?
:steamhappy:
MizarLuke  [author] 23 May, 2022 @ 9:58am 
I'm glad you like it! It's one of the airships I'm especially proud of. The frag spam main guns and kinetic secondary-CIWS are a truly frightening combination. I'm glad you appreciate that I didn't give it cheesy evasion. Most people think it's just pointless not to, but I can't stand it to take advantage of a game mechanic like that so I just build them to cope with enemy fire instead of cheesily dodging it.

I've found with most of my airships that they can usually keep flying until 60% damage or less. Some of them can keep at it until about 30% lol. Doesn't hold true against EMP since I hardly use surge protectors, and occasionally engines can get sniped by railguns or lasers, but against conventional firepower and missiles they should last until too damaged most of the time. HMES Adventure is another especially durable design, and it's just a DD.
The Smoking Man 21 May, 2022 @ 4:06pm 
I love this ship. The look is what drew me to this as my heavy cruiser option, and it has never disappointed me. It takes on things bigger than it, and wins. It takes on whole fleets by itself, and wins. Only once have I ever needed to pull it back out of a fight and let the escort craft finish the target off. It pulls all of this off without cheaty feeling AI that just dodges everything in the known universe. It stands proud in the squared circle, taking all comers with conventional firepower, and a tough hide. Most air vehicles smack the water at a frighteningly high health percentage. Not this beauty. She uses every ounce of her armor in a fight that is actually fun to watch. I love this vessel. I would marry this vessel. My only complaint is that I don't know how much better the larger Airships of the fleet are, because I have yet to face a threat that this gem cannot handle comfortably.