This was enough firepower to stand up to any ship in the game, even the 100k+ ton behemoth BBs that the game loves to throw all the time. This gave me the K-type Battlecruisers, a series of designs for a 33 knot BC armed with 3 triple 18-inch guns and a variable secondary battery mainly consisting of 3 triple 6-inch guns. There's nothing wrong with it per se, and I like the features that it added, however it's the features that were removed that hurt me so much.įor the longest time, I had been doing some experiments with the French Experimental Battlecruiser II hull to try to create my ideal ship: a fast, durable, and versatile platform that can kill cruisers like a battlecruiser should and compete toe to toe with battleships. Overall, the opinion has been positive, but I personally hate this update. ( HH9)Ī few years later, both the Andermani Empire and the Republic of Haven developed podnoughts as well.As you probably all know by now, Core Patch 0.5 dropped today. While massively enhancing the ships' first strike capabilities, the hollow-core design reduced the ships hull strength compared to pre-pod superdreadnoughts, and the need to mount doors through which to flush the pods forced the designers to sacrifice the aft chase mounts.
During combat, the pods would be flushed out of the ship through a stern-mounted bay door. Jointly developed between Manticore's BuShips and Grayson's Office of Shipbuilding, the Medusa class (known and operated by the Grayson Space Navy as the Honor Harrington class) was the first design of pod-laying warship developed from the keel for that purpose, capable of carrying up to five hundred pods. This also allowed a greater number or pods to be carried into battle, and podnoughts could "hand off" pods to other ships in the same formation to tow, although fire-control was still provided by the podnought itself. The pod-laying variant (called superdreadnought pod-layer, SD(P), or " podnought") was a superdreadnought hull that had been modified to have a hollow core where it could store racks of missile pods, thus protecting them from proximity or "soft" kills. This allowed Havenite carriers to field more LACs for a given number of hulls.
The Republic of Haven's LAC carriers were superdreadnought-sized as they were designed to serve as the screening element for the wall of battle. HMS Manticore was the first Royal Manticoran Navy superdreadnought.
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