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Love this design!

@Evandir45 Back during the age of sail, a Frigate was like today's Cruisers: they were the top surface combatant and the thing which a fleet was built around. (Dwarf-Lord mentioned his age-of-sail fondness).

Today they don't serve that role, and haven't since WWI or earlier.

@Dwarf-lord pangolin Yeah it seems frigates have turned into smaller vessals in sci fi, a good example of this would be Homeworld 2 and sins of a solar empire. Not sure about star trek because there ships are very different from other sci fi ships

Part of that was due to outdated tactics on the part of the British, and things turned around after they brutally eviscerated that one American ship... ohh what was the name... it was a fir-built ship (what a terrible idea that was).... the Chesapeake?

From the same article:
"In 1797, three of the United States Navy's first six major ships were rated as 44-gun frigates (or "super-frigates"), which operationally carried fifty-six to sixty 24-pounder long guns and 32-pounder or 42-pounder carronades on two decks; by all regards they were exceptionally powerful and tough. These ships were so well-armed that they were often regarded as equal to ships of the line, and after a series of losses at the outbreak of the War of 1812, Royal Navy fighting instructions ordered British frigates (usually of 38 guns or less) to never engage American frigates at any less than a 2:1 advantage."

At some point I'm going to post my ship classification system so it makes some kind of sense. :p

@Kaiser Bradley: There's a lot of truth to that. I use a very ideosyncratic definition of "frigate" that has more in common with the ships that bore that name during the age of sail than it does with modern frigates.

From Wikipedia:
"Frigates were perhaps the hardest-worked of warship types during the Age of Sail. While smaller than a ship-of-the-line, they were formidable opponents for the large numbers of sloops and gunboats, not to mention privateers or merchantmen. Able to carry six months' stores, they had very long range; and vessels larger than frigates were considered too valuable to operate independently."

More of a capitol ship than a frigate

I learned an important lesson: turn off the firing mechanism when reloading.

I don't think you should "upgrade" to a timered system. The piston-based magazine system is gloriously effective. What it needs is more detailed controls on the part of the S.E. side of things, so that the button will raise it by 2.5 meters exactly with each press.

Sweet!