Panther - Assault Frigate

[Kittles]

A friend (Dazuro) and I worked together to build what is essentially our first "Capital" ship. We've never built something of this scale, and I would love some feedback on our work.

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The "Panther" Assault Frigate is a ship designed for the purpose of escorting larger capital ships during times of warfare. It is equipped with 7 twin-cannon turrets that serve as effective detterents to smaller craft like Fighters and Corvettes. The Panther is propelled by four large engines located on the top, bottom and flanks of the ship. Weapon systems include 2 forward-mounted guns effective at tearing through enemy shields, as well as dumb-fire missile launcher.



STATISTICS



Panther

Mass: 5,734.3 (Blocks: 58,195)

Length: 151 m

Height: 57 m

Width: 61 m

Power: 182,023.6 (303,458.8 e/sec)

Thrust: 5,557.4

Turning Speed: X = 1.1 / Y = 1.1 / Z = 1.0

Shields: 295,700 (9,365 s/sec) / Blocks = 7,017 / Recovery = 3.0



Antimatter Cannon x2

Damage: 30% = 393.5

Distance: 20% = 796

Reload: 25% = 170

Speed: 25% = 50.9



d1000 Missile Launcher

Damage: 25% = 342.3

Distance: 20% = 123.9

Reload: 15% = 16.4

Speed: 15% = 3.3

Radius: 25% = 23.5



Turret x7

Mass: 16.6 (Blocks: 166)

Length: 9 m

Height: 6 m

Width: 9 m

Power: 20,000 (477.8 e/sec)

Thrust: 2

Turning Speed: X = 4.2 / Y = 5.0 / Z = 4.2

Shields: 4,907 (433 s/sec) / Blocks = 15 / Recovery = 0.5

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Damage: 25% = 121.3

Distance: 25% = 481.8

Reload: 25% = 248.3

Speed: 25% = 27.1



Let me know what you think!



EDIT: How do I prevent the images from expanding past the border like that? Does this forum not have the option to display images as thumbnails that you can click to zoom in on?

 

[kiwionthemoon]

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[Trollerbobman]

Dat detail....

Awesome work!

 

[Draren Thiralas]

I think weapons are kinda weak for an assault frigate. But shields are fine, and it also has a nice design. I really like the engines.

 

[Captain Tankman]

I really like the colours and the overall look.

To your question about the pictures:
There is such an option but it doesn\'t work :/
But you can downscale them to a width of 600-700 before uploading using MS paint or other programs.
You can still see all the detail but the picutres doesn\'t blow the thread up to intergalactic dimensions :D

 

[Mortiferum]

This will be my answer your request for what is on my mind about this ship, but I have two answer below, and it depends on what you want to hear. Yes, one reply will be a sugar coated one and the other is a bit more critical.



This is a good ship, the ship looks nice and it certainly could be improved more.



Below is the critical reply.

I do not think this would make a efficent warship.

-Weapon-

1) The weapons are woefully inadequte, 2x 393 damage AMC is really bad for a ship this size, you might need to upgun it to at least 4x 500 damage AMC.

2) D-100 missiles are to be used en-mass, there is no point for the D-100 if you cannot make it fire a large salvo of maybe 20-40 because one missile for a ship this size will be \"Capped\" (By ship size) to something small. Numbers will make up for it but 1 is not enough.

3) The turrets are inefficent for its size. The norm is somewhere around 300 damage, you only got 242 damage with the turrets (Per turret)



Shields

- It aint bad , your ship is quite durable for its size.



Actual confusion of classes might be the cause of this. Your ship is closer to a light - Medium Corvette than an actual Frigate, the speed and mauverability seems good though.



-Improvement which can be made

- Missiles is pretty much 30 block (I prefer a literal 30 block long \"Pole\", spread out with 1 space in between) , each for a small ship, and chain up maybe 20-40 of them per CPU for maximum effect. (You wont have planet killing missiles, so have 1 missile breach the hull and the rest chewing up the internals might be more valid)

- AMCs need to be larger. Make the 2x2 sized and run down the entire length of the ship, you will get around 500-600 per gun for that, and your power should be able to feed it.

- Turrets can be made more efficent, though your turret design is good on protection for its size, small turrets like these really cannot have \"enough\" protection to stand against any remotely close to a ship cannon.