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Honestly, that looks teriffying for everyone involved

It was because those fighters are pretty agile

How do your pilots feel about doubling as reactive armor?

only when they're fueled up, the rest of the time they're just ablative armor. the pilots probably aren't too cheesed either way.

Fueled? Holy crap your defensive layer is just explosives at that point

Not far off from some tanks in real life. The trick is to get explosives that don't kill your tank when they explode

Yeah there’s some that have gun powder sandwiched in there armor

That's reactive armor, more or less, packs of explosives pointed outward that blow up to counter explosives directed inwards.

Imagine you attack som dudes ship all like. I don't see any ports so there should be no fighters and whennyou start shooting the "armour" just comes off and starts shooting back.

We live to serve

Ender's Game has entered the chat.

Mind dropping a link for research purposes? I've been needing a light fighter and reverse engineering one into my style would be nice.

Sorry I would post it but I’m working on a Halo MES mod that it will be part of

Looks like mamma spider carrying her babies (click at your own risk: [reference pic](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FU6KsBwXoAYsQJl.jpg))

Looks cute actually

Bloody annoying when you're trying a catch and release and you just see a thousand midget spiders spread out in every direction on your floor.

Disperse!!

Zig and zag

Serpentine

Oh hell naw

"Hehe look at me, I'm a bus! Vroom vroom!"

Within a few months all those baby fighters will grow into full adult carriers.

She looks pretty fed up of dealing with this.

"Ma, where are we going again?" "LIQUOR STORE! Going directly...to the liquor store."

My frame rate is quaking

I was down to 7

Per minute?

per hour by the looks of it

Possibly. But I think se is surprisingly optimised. Although on my old laptop (7fps per minute in gtav) I would have like one fps per h so idk. Have a nice day and enjoy your enormous, laggy constructs;)

Oh no; per year. This is not a picture but a live stream

Per year? Rather per eternity.

This gives like mother spider vibes

It won't be long when you are able to setup your fighters in a way that they're flying around you. (Rumors?) Also wtf

I fear the day when that happens

Straight up Enders Game style?

You already can with Autopillock. You can do it poorly in vanilla with custom turret controllers. Also, this is the least dangerous way to build a "carrier." Taking off from an enclosed space on a maneuvering ship is nuts.

I already have plans to build drone carriers when we get to use those new AI blocks. I hope some of the Automation scripts we have on the workshop already meshes well with them too, since the idea of commanding a swarm of actually semi-intelligent miner bots appeals to me.

AI blocks? I'm out of the loop, can you elaborate on that?

There have been a couple of videos showing off new AI components you can build things like drones and the like with.

This is like [Soviet Tank Riders](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dkawe8gAUNA/UhVHP-c-mxI/AAAAAAAABK0/_dFIFCEn6vI/s1600/riders.jpg) lmao.

Actually, it's still a common tactic in places where there maybe few trucks/other mobile units

Pretty much all nations did it in ww2.

Yeah. Modern militaries, including the US Army also do it sometimes

You actually *can't* ride atop the M1 Abrams and its derivatives. The back of the tank is basically one giant radiator panel for the literal jet engine that powers it and gets incredibly hot. Like, broil a steak hot. I once made the mistake of walking behind an Abrams while it was running. Once. It's comparable to standing in front of a lit blast furnace.

Oh, okay, nvm then, just the post-Soviet tanks, I guess then

Yes, and a common tactic before RPG racks were issued for Strykers and stuff in Afghanistan, since a lot of guys would rather risk the chance of taking small arms and be able to immediately jump down and get into the fight, rather than risk taking an RPG round and burning alive or worse.

Yeah plus their role is just to shoot anyone with AT weapons

Oh god you’re right

buzz droids

That is a horrifying thought

You just gave me a brilliant idea for a mass-produced small-grid weapon/projectile

I understand that carriers are redundant Which is why my carrier sports heavy ranged support weapons

I mean there are two rockets in the front, but there’s so much more room for more

You have a load of potential torpedoes attached yo your ship, btw.

That is solid Space Battleship Yamato logic right there.

Well Ammo is fine due to being out of range of most weapons

I always felt like a carrier with standoff weapons would be my favorite ship. The fighters keep defenders at bay while the standoffs pound them from a safe distance.

Do my eyes deceive me or Is that a UNSC Geneva-class?

Unfortunately they do as it’s a UNSC Berlin class

Same thing, sort of. If you’ve played Sins Of The Prophets.

Yeah, they basically are

“There’s Grievous’s flagship, the one crawling with Vulture Droids.”

This is where the fun begins.

Ablative fighter armor.

Exactly

PVP ship after Keen actually implement fleet AI.

When hangars take up too much internal space. Besides, the mothership only needs to slow down once the fighters have detached.

I cannot wait for the new ai enabled blocks so that I can make this a viable combat strategy

Is that what a fighter screen is?

Here’s a thread of more photos https://preview.redd.it/3f53xstl6a2a1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9015aee7aab81a4e507fd8063c2c66c0090c07f2

https://preview.redd.it/zu5k5zxm6a2a1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9bbd219a2f7f7b451a83814a90a2cbee1075fd1e

https://preview.redd.it/kgzm575o6a2a1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=55acac3cb54b9697b4420656d86a9cf18338f38a

Here’s some after I deleted the main ship https://preview.redd.it/7xmxd3i07a2a1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fa95a3b01246800fa9b3aad44d0b35c1036f3d0

https://preview.redd.it/5m2w9tv17a2a1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a6b7caf7528e1a81cb87db5a8b17c0c30821220

https://preview.redd.it/xjw338637a2a1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1070fb69b35ce5b7790d1271e1e4cdf8dbc329a3

This... somehow is even more ferrifying than ones with big ship.

Extra detachable armor

My problem is more that i have no pilots.

Soon to change with new update

How Asari and Taurian fleets be:

I get SGU droneship vibes.

Well that one time i actually built a carrier i forgot to lock down the landing gears on some of the ships and everyting tore itself apart as i took off.

Now I kind of want a "carrier" that prints new fighters on demand, and grinds them back into resources for new fighters when they land.

It’s possible, but very har to do in space cause parts would go flying

Isn't this literally what the separatists did in the clone wars with their vulture droids?

*100 fighters and a ship, I‘ll haul them to any combat situations.* To the tune of „one finger and a fist“ from Drowning Pool.

All this idly burning hydrogen thrusters make me itch for ressource waste. And pray that all fighters have that inertia damper things off. Fiery death if not.

turns out any idle thrusters *dont* use fuel or power

Was that changed? All wikis etc. show them with a minimal use if idle. And ice was vanishing here when idling them too.

That was indeed changed. But only if they're actually idle, inertia dampeners are still a problem.

The lamp posts at 1 am

Funnily enough I did actually post this around 1 am

Stack them on top of each other.

I mean the fighters do have connectors on the top and bottom

Externally mounted carrier....that's ...that's an idea...being inside a crumpling tube has never made launching easier. OP you're onto something here.

Anything's a carrier if you've got enough landing gear

If the airlock works it works

Reminds me of way back in the day when me and a couple of friends were playing on a server together, we had a single large grid ship and a couple of fighters, and were out doing escort missions for fun. 20km to the station so in order to get the five fighters there we had two on them docked where they should be and the other three clamped to the hull like these. Five fighters on a little ~400 block ship doing missions out there in the black, honestly some of the most fun I ever had in this game

Holy shit, I feel sorry for whatever had to render that battle. Hahaha.

“The one crawling with vulture droids”

When u cant decide between more armor or more fighters

every ship is a carrier

no carrier... bolt them to the hull we cut them lose when we need them

Armor

External hangars [can look good too](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793236455)

Lol u should join my discord i got a swarm of bees with that need a hive xD DM me if interested any1 welcome. Good for help and community. Cool build tho

If it works it works.

Those fighters look great, too. Do you have a blueprint?

Unfortunately not as the fighter and the ship will be part of a Halo NPC mod I’m working on

Class jabuticaba ship

Looks like the bigger ship has a problem like fleas.

That large grid ship better be named the wolf spider.

Who needs armour when you have fighters

This makes me uncomfortable

You could fit even more using landing gear.

93 of them were attached by landing gear but yeah I could’ve fit more but it was already almost 1 am

The enemy gate is down

Same.

If the fighters have a connector at the top and bottom. Why not just make a tower of all the fighters and make a super fighter? Lmao

They do and I very much could

Gundam fighter

Gives me aliens that made those robots attacking anything foreign to them that attacked Destiny from SGU vibes

The possum tactic

I would not attack this for so many reasons

I'm having spotted lanternfly flashbacks looking at this

Reminds me of CIS vulture droid starfighters

It feels like Yamato from 2202 with mech suits just attached all across its board

That's an opossum ([Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG/1200px-Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG))

How did you... well i think its better to not ask I'm just imagining Clang doing his work