With so many other people taking a leaf out of Homeworlds book for their capital ships, I thought I would do the same while designing fighters for my carrier.
These three are one ship, controlled from the center. It fulfills my need for a small agile fighter appearance whilst not sacrificing on firepower or defences.
The stats are:
- 37.1 mass
- 21m long, 5m high, 24m wide
- 2858.3 e/sec power regen
- 37.6 thrust
- 6525 shields with 438 s/sec regen
There are 3 cannons in total, set at default settings, with 87.6 damage and 462.3 reload each, I\'m not sure how you work out the DPS from that but they seem to shred pirates pretty well.
Here\'s a shot of my fighter deck:
I might fiddle with them a bit and swap out some blocks as I don\'t even dent the power regen currently, maybe use the same design for some bomber squadrons as well.
I can see this being used as a tactic for capital fleets as well later on for faction vs faction warfare to give the appearance of greater numbers (at least until you notice the lack of signatures to match... )