How do YOU use warheads?

[StormWing0]

Torpedoes of course.
This doesn't use push modules.
Just an alternative way of doing it.

That just gave me an idea for AI spawned torpedoes that'd just randomly turn up and go full speed at an enemy.

 

[alterintel]

That just gave me an idea for AI spawned torpedoes that'd just randomly turn up and go full speed at an enemy.

DUDE
That would be terrifying

 

[StormWing0]

DUDE
That would be terrifying

Up side one or two would die when turrets and AI ships look at them funny. Now a massive fleet of them on the other hand. @_@

 

[Sgtwisky]

lots of thread necro's lately.

Just some added info that wasn't present in the older posts, in case someone else stumbles in here.

1. I noticed earlier people said they damage shields, or they don't damage ships with shields. They actually ignore shields, and damage blocks even if the targets shields are at 100%

3. Issue of fitting lots of Torpedo's is gone now due to rails.

4. Launching can now be done via Shootout rails.

Some uses I have considered.
1. Torpedo
2. Boarding Device
3. Self Destruct
4. Traps that trigger when players enter an area
5. Cloaked Mine fields. Using fleets I have found its possible to make the ships cloak/jam and go visible again. You just have to do a lot of manual positioning when you get them to the right sector. And hope your enemy fly's through there. They are not that damaging to many ships but will troll the hell outta your attacker!

 

[Scypio]

5. Cloaked Mine fields. Using fleets I have found its possible to make the ships cloak/jam and go visible again. You just have to do a lot of manual positioning when you get them to the right sector. And hope your enemy fly's through there. They are not that damaging to many ships but will troll the hell outta your attacker!

That's brilliant ! Never tought about it.

 

[Sgtwisky]

only down side to #5 is that its possible to forget they are there, and troll yourself. Oh and the time and effort to cloak/jam each one individually.

 

[Hidden Porpoise]

DUDE
That would be terrifying

I made a stealth bomber and didn't clean the bombs out of the pirate catalog; it's unpleasant.

 

[Crashmaster]

Remotely blowing a computer out of a self-powered x-cannon turret when it's power supply gets compromised.

 

[rocketman221]

I typically use them to make my trash pods self destruct after they get launched away from my station.

 

[EricBlank]

Torpedoes and bombs, of course! Retrofitted my basic bomber specifically for the purpose.

 

[Edymnion]

For money.

I sell them. I have no use for them what-so-ever. They could have completely removed from the game a months ago and I wouldn't have even noticed.

 

[Dvaren]

They still suck as astronaut traps as they do not apply much damage to the astronaut as they would to a block...although that may be a bug.

 

[KiloZulu]

My favorite use of them was to replicate a reactor core detonation. I have a ship called the Mariner where the reactor core can be jettisoned. The reactor will explode shortly after ejection, so you'll want to make sure you're not near it when it goes up. It would've been nice if there was a way to expand the explosion radius. I'm not certain how well the ship will function now with the advent of the auxiliary blocks...

I've also made torpedoes to give some of my really small ships a little extra punch. Replacing them after launch is a hassle that doesn't appeal to me. I'm looking forward to the day they introduce flagships, though. I want to see if I can make a system that actually builds a torpedo using stored material, loads it into a tube, and launches it.

 

[MykieDoesStuff]

I'm planning on making cloaking ships covered with pretty much all warheads, and use them as space mines, and send them as fleet around the enemy homebase