(10-09-2018, 01:54 AM)Durandal Wrote: Personally I agree with Tena here, and a tube shape is easier to balance as well.
As long as it doesnt get downgraded I'm fine with that, it should remain a heavy gunboat with 600k core / 8 guns.
However, I do still like omicron's suggestion of giving it a forward-opening cargo bay so that it could, in-rp, act as an assault landing ship for troops, or as a supply ship / armored transport for the order's facilities. I think that could be incorporated well into the tube design with a little artistic license.
I would probably go about it the same way as the Togo blood dragon battleship: you have the tube shape (like the osiris hull), but that tube 'splits' into more of a catamaran shape at the front of the ship, and has the cargo bay doors between the two sides of the hull.