Gunboat

[Heartless]

I was actually thinking like a big section, another rectangle-thing on both sides of the ship, give it an expansion of sorts.
Like a catamaran in a way...

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SwissScorch --> Heartless

[Turkish]

Like armoured side panels?

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I have a fetish for all things Norse.

[Heartless]

Something like this:
http://www.constellationyachts.com/images/ilan.JPG
More free-lancer ish of course, but that's the general idea.
Does it make sence? Doesn't matter if it doesn't.

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SwissScorch --> Heartless

[Turkish]

Yea, that makes sense.

I'll give it a shot and see how it turns out.

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I have a fetish for all things Norse.

[Tic]

I love it, but its a bit too big... This would be good me thinkz:

75%-80% of current size

6 turrets, all forward and backward fire

100 000 hull

A bit less manouverable then Rogue GB

Thus would be gud, right?

[Tenacity]

no tic, this thing should definitely be able to forward-fire 8 supernova cannons constantly without running out of energy, and it should be as manuverable as the patriot. Then it would be gud.

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[El Nino]

Excellent the way this thing looks by the osiris is just spectacular... Submit!

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[AdamantineFist]

Excellent the way this thing looks by the osiris is just spectacular... Submit!

Yeah. It looks very fitting.


Weapons-wise, I say we go for high maneuverability over Lunchbox-like damage/turrets. Six turrets, all forwards firing, and good maneuverability.

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[Tenacity]

It'd be nice if this thing had a forward gun as well, making it a true gunboat instead of another gunship.

Give it decent manuverability, it should be on the small side as the order would not be wasteful with resources when it comes to building a ship like this. The vessel would be for operational support and dangerous recon missions, not all-out combat. I'd say size and agility similar to the kusari gunboat would be perfect - with such a small front profile it'd be great at strafing to avoid enemy fire from head-on.

Six turrets and a forward gun would be ideal I think, about the same firepower as a liberty gunboat (though the liberty GB has 7 turrets), but with the sacrafice of one turret for additional manuverability. A new order gunboat forward gun would need to be added along with this.

As for firing arcs... Three turrets on each side of the ship. All firing forward or backward, but only three can fire to each side, making it vulnerable if not facing or fleeing an enemy - that would force players that use this ship to think when they fight, and not just try to go broadside with everything using turret view.

So... stats something like this perhaps:

Order Gunboat:
Guns/Turrets: 1*/6 (1* = gunboat forward gun)
Cargo Space: 300
Hull: 85,000
NB/SB: 350/350
Price: 25,000,000

Manuverability: Equivalent to kusari gunboat

Order Gunboat Forward Gun:
Hull Damage - 18,000
Shield Damage - 9,000
Range - 1500m
Speed - 500m/s
Refire Rate - 1.00
Energy - 70,000

Also need a name for it. Anubis, Nephthys, Osiris, Isis, Apophis, Sehkmet, and Hathor are already taken...
I'd love if you named it the Bastet class gunboat :DI have a thing for bastet... was going to be the name of my order gunboat in 4.85 anyways (as in personal ship designation, not class name).

A few other name options:
Sphinx
Giza
Obelisk

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[Tenacity]

no new updates yet?

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