I wanted these all to be vanilla-esque in nature, meaning I wouldn't simply strip all armor unrequired or such and do some shenanigans for the absolute best craft. Most have lore written for them in my head, with the Vulpenia series originally being made for use by a small native group of nomads for the nation these ships hail from, as they otherwise were defenseless (albeit in my mind they would use nuclear-thermal engines for that). All ships prove effective against medium mode so far, often winning fights. The Stormbringer kills everything with at best 2k in damage, the Coyote can do the same for light-medium craft, and the Vulpens serve a great auxiliary to either hold Troposphere Comms or to perform bomb runs on cruisers to take one or two out. Their survival rate in campaign so far is 60%, one died to engine flameouts against 37mm and the other one ate a missile that simply ignroed the flares in it's face. Catapult is unused, I just made it for if I ever accumulate enough bonus to get bored and nuke every strike group.

Any thoughts?

We all know the Lightning and Skylark are a good combo, but here are the ships that I have used that fill the same role!

Each fighter is usually paired with a tanker/sensor ship as it city-hops and fights garrisons.

The Heikegani was one of my first fighters, with four Molots and armour overall, it took down garrisons with ease. It was paired with the Mayfly.

The Bolt and Blue Sprite were my attempts to make a fighter that used minimal armour and instead opted on extentive palash coverage and maneuverability to fight. Both were good at their roles but suffered from lighter caliber fire (37 and 57 mm) which didn't trigger palash. The Bolt also was weaker with only two Molots. They were paired with the Flea.

The Interloper was my try at making a more vanilla-like fighter, with armoured tops and exposed bottoms protected by palash. It had AK100s which could be swapped out with Molots in the campaign. It faired pretty well in taking down early to mid game garrisons. It was paired with the Mayfly.

The Firebird is a evolution of the Interloper, keeping the same design ideas but making it larger. Four Molots cut through most enemies with ease. The Firebird can also be built off the base of the Interloper making it a good campaign rebuilt. It is paired with the Mayfly as well.

The Sinai is a heavy gunship, meant to deal with heavier garrisons. It can one shot smaller enemies and is well protected against heavier garrison ships. While heavily armoured, it is still silent strike capable. It is paired with the Alderfly.

The Mayfly, Flea and Alderfly are all tankers with additional early warning systems on them. All serve the same purpose, tanker first for their fighters and scouts second with their sensors. They also all have sprints and ciws which have come in handy in a few situations when missiles were sent their way.

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Another run, another win. This time, after quite a few wins behind me, I've decided to clean the entire map and prepare a proper defense for the endgame. Being capable of starting with 2 Sevastopols is something else. There are a few things that I've noticed that can propably help new players that should be the priority, so I'll line them up right now. Now I can, without doubt, state that I've finished all the "endings" the game has to offer.

First, you should not start with too many ships. The flagship and 1-3 lightnings along with a tanker for each lightning should be enough. There are more than enough ships to get later in the game, and every single ship in your fleet burns a lot of fuel, best to keep the fuel efficiency good.

Hidden cities can be found on your own, without the use of land radar, although it can help quite a bit. You want to zoom in as far as possible so that you see the actual terrain around you, then look for roads going from cities into the middle of nowhere. If there is a large gaping hole surrounded by cities, there's propably a hidden city somewhere in that desert. You just have to look for it, and the best way to do that is to follow the roads. Winning the game without hidden cities is really, really hard since any mention of your fleet in any official city will lead the Strike Groups right to your location.

Don't engage strike groups, they're not worth it. What you want is to pelt them with airplanes and missiles whenever you locate the SGs. A non-nuclear cruise missile is 1500 gold, repairing your cruisers after fighting an SG usually exceeds 20000 gold and takes a lot of time.

Nuclear groups and aircraft carrier groups do not migrate. They're the same as garrisons, just with the capability of pelting you with aircraft/missiles. If you've destroyed all the SGs, you don't need hidden cities anymore.

Garrisons, including nuclear groups and carrier groups, will chase you if they think they're stronger than you. They won't go to the next city over like that since they don't have enough fuel for that, but they can chase you down till you're out of fuel if they think they're stronger than you.

Nuclear groups and carrier groups do not use their radar unless they're expecting you. This can be used to strike a garrison with these in the middle of the night, making their main advantage useless if you take them by surprise.

Nuclear groups and carrier groups are almost in every second city next to Khiva if you play on normal. If you are detected when attacking a garrison next to a city with a NG or a CG, run. The loot is not worth losing your strike group.

Hoard A-100s and AA missiles. The enemy is physical, they have a limited amount of resources to throw at you. You can take down enemy missiles with A-100s and with AA missiles. You can also take down enemy plane squadrons with A-100s and AA missiles, although using A-100s against planes is not recommended due to the high cost.

Use AT munitions. While I've finished the game with basegame vehicles without using special munitions, AT shells can make your Lightning useful not only in early and midgame, but also in the endgame. The rest of the munition types are either too expensive or not effective enough, but a Gladiator with AT shells can take down an SG on it's own with a skilled pilot.

While decoding enemy transmissions is fun the first dozen times, it gets tiresome quite fast. Once you've destroyed all the SGs, leave a light corvette in every intelligence outpost. Knowing where enemy NGs, CGs and transport convoys are is crucial to minimizing loses and maximizing profit.

Inspired by u/Electrical-Attempt18 's silhouette posts, I wanted to showcase and see my battleship progression through my time playing Highfleet.

For the first pic, they are arranged chronologically from top to bottom, left to right, with the Janus Mk V being the first battleship and Byzantinistanizgrad the latest.

The Janus Mk V was my first battleship that I built that I used for a campaign. It has four squalls and four missile tubes but not a complete sensor array. it only has two layers of armour on the sides and top.

The Antares was built as an experiment to emulate the pagoda masts of Japanese battleships in WW2. It has six squalls and four missile tubes and double armour layer as well.

The Alsephina was with armour in mind, as it has a 3 layer thick armour shield on the bow and stern with an internal armour belt around all the ammo. This ship has proven to survive eight nukes as well. It has four missile tubes and six squalls. You can't see it in this silhouette but I also tried to have more elevation control (even tho it doesn't matter currently) and to have spacing between certain modules so they do not clip into each other.

The Atomsk is another take on the heavy armour plan, with 3 layers of armour on the side and double layer on top. It has six squalls, all super firing over each other (three on each side at elevation levels one, two and three, respectively). If arcs were enabled, at a minimum you would have 3 squalls to bear on a target if side fighting. It also has six missile tubes and two scout planes.

The Byzantinistanizgrad is my try at making a super battleship, something over 500 meters long and over 100,000 tonnes. The Byzantinistanizgrad has seven squalls, three super firing on each side like the Atomsk, but with a seventh in the center of the ship, being elevated to the fourth level to superfire even over the fuel tanks themselves. If side-fighting with arcs, you could have at minimum, four squalls to bear unobstructed at a target. It also has six missile tubes and two scout planes.

I might post an actual pic of all the ships someday.

I purchased the game 2 hours ago, played the prolouge, and then built this. I envisioned it as the strat flagship that would replace the seva, and thus made it fit a similar role, except it´d be a CV.

Specs: 200ish Km/h

14 Planes

3 2a37 CIWS

Radar,FCS,Elint (all large)

2 A-100, 2 KH-15, 2 KH-15N

Enough range (I forgot the exact)

6 SPRINTs

Edit: Any Criticism is welcome, I´m trying to learn what is good to make and what isn´t!

i want to get into the game but totally dont understand it (i run out of fuel, dont understand how missiles work, am bad at combat etc.). eventhough having 4hrs played...

is there some no commentary gameplay that shows how to play it from the very beginning, tutorial included?
links to videos would be appreciated

Look in discord if using 3rd party overlay app.

I won the game for the first time, and in my first playthrough nonetheless(the first playthrough where I actually reached khiva, at least). Let me first commemorate the fallen:

-RIP ~560k civilians who perished in nuclear fire, your deaths were not in vain

-Rest easy, the many ships and their crews who died bravely defending their homes, who saved Gerat from certain nuclear apocalypse, may Almighty bless your souls

-And Almighty especially bless you, Kormoran, who single-handedly took on and destroyed an entire Ballistic Missile group. You saved the world brothers, sorry for accidentally nuking your fleet, Grand Duke will live with that guilt for the rest of his life

With that being said, the ending felt VERY underwhelming. Don't get me wrong, the game itself is one of the best strategy games I've ever played, and it especially shines in the last mission, and the story is surprisingly good for what it is. But in the end it felt like none of my decisions/worldview choices mattered. I expected some dialogue with tarkhans depending on my relations and worldview, maybe some celebrations as well now that we avoided nuclear war(or maybe not since hundreds of thousands died). But it's only Pyotr saying "glad that's over lol, come read this thing on a wall I found". I know they wanted to tease a sequel or a dlc, but it feels very lame after all you've been through.

What do you guys think?

Yes the ammo next to the bridge is intentional

I´m almost at khiva. but I had a last minute change of heart and sent a longbow back south to contact a tarkhan I ignored(because he was too far). The problem is I ran out of fuel while chasing a trade convoy so the longbow is stuck in the middle of the road, far away from my main fleet. Is there anything I can do like edit the savefile to refill it? I´m not giving up on that ship

I heard about this game several months ago, I eagerly waited for it to go on sale, and now that I can finally play it, it seems to have changed my mouse settings to something extremely frustrating and borderline unplayable. I'm not sure how to describe this exactly, but it's like the pointer on screen is just kind of lazy. When I move the mouse, the pointer has sort of a delay but then as it moves it continues to accelerate. The result is that I'm constantly over correcting and wiggling the mouse around until the pointer finally rests on the correct point on screen. I haven't even engaged in combat yet, and this is driving me nuts. I'm just trying to look at stuff in the market in the first city, and I'm already considering refunding the game. The only option I see in settings is to adjust the sensitivity (which doesn't solve the problem), and I've tried restarting the game several times but every time my mouse acts just as weird (only in this game though).

Why is it doing this, and what can be done to fix it?

The two ships are supposed to work together at all times

This will be the fleet's only missile/aircraft carrier

I plan to deal with incoming missiles by detaching AA ships to intercept, which is why it has no defense

I'm thinking if I should just add sensors and get rid of a separate ship

Do you think I have I have enough aircraft or range?

Im sure a good amount of you guys have played nuclear option and its a perfect game to mold into a 3d highfleet. Im not a modder, but it has full mod support with custom campaigns and so my hope is someone talented out there sees this and gets motivation to make it. Wouldn't even need the flying ships (though it would be cool) just reskins of planes and carriers with a custom campaign mirroring highfleet's.

Gentlemen.
I and some others from the Unofficial Highfleet discord started working on an artpiece in the real city of Khiva (Uzbekistan). We need to paint over 170 000 pixels.

If you are willing to help us, you will need to have the Blue Marble extension. It's a simple installation. I know you'll figure it out. The instructions are on the homepage of the extension.

The template is on the second image. You need to set the coordinates of the template to 1367, 764, 352, 869.

Make sure it lines up with the lineart that is already there.

We are going to need a few premium colours: Dark Goldenrod, Goldenrod, Light Goldenrod, Light Brown, Dark Tan, Tan.

All of the Goldenrod colours are ESSENTIAL. The others we can use later.

These are my newest ship designs with reference from other ships and suggestions from other players helping me design these (thank you!).

These are strictly combat ships for fighting garrisons and taking on strike groups, so I've made them armoured with a lot of guns.

Are they optimised?: Nuh uh, I just made whatever came to my head and kept on tweaking it until I was satisfied.

Too many guns?: yes

Too expensive?: Also yes

They have been tested on at least 5 difficulty with all the combos of ship sizes and they work pretty well. Most of them are also bottom fighters since static engines are just too good to give up. All ship designs, except for the last one, do good head-on against SGs. I prefer making armoured designs since I love doing combat in highfleet and I am bad at stealth and dodging. I am aware of most of the flaws of the designs, such as their lack of FSS and high costs, but I am curious on what y'all think of them. As long as I don't get showered with cruise missiles, these ships have good survivability. Even if they are not very practical, I find them nice to look at.

So, i made it to khiva for the first time and was ready and exited to defend, but (to my knowladge) i could not physically fuel fast enough to get anything out of khiva, and got destroyed by the nukes. did i do something wrong? Im immensely upset that i didnt even get a chance.