Millions must build overly gigantic and expensive cruisers that they can't even afford in a normal campaign

[u/Electrical-Attempt18]

[u/PineCone227]

I'm a bit of an expert

[u/Electrical-Attempt18 → u/PineCone227]

They're certainly very nice looking ships, they aren't vanilla like but they have their own aesthetics which are beautiful, I don't quite like how beefy the landing gears are tho but I assume it's mandatory since the build is too large for just two large ones

[u/PineCone227 → u/Electrical-Attempt18]

You could lighten the gear a little but I for one thought it was fitting for ships weighing in at 300k tons and 800k tons respectively to need some serious dampening in order to land without collapsing under their own weight. My lighter ships like Kodiak use a more reasonable variant of that arrangement - front section of Kodiak SV(3) with infantry for scale.

As for vanilla aesthetics - I'll agree Drakon isn't due to the game simply refusing to let me place any more structures onto the blueprint, meaning it's cut down in a lot of places so I could even close the hull, but Nemezida I think is quite close to what a ship of this size would be in canon, minus the lazily copy-pasted gun battery and rear thruster section(a vanilla design would feature more greeble to diversify there)

[u/teotzl → u/PineCone227]

How much of the battle window does that monstrosity take up? Seems like that might give you 0 room to maneuver left and right lol

[u/PineCone227 → u/teotzl]

Nemezida takes up around 1/3rd, leaving some room to manouver. Drakon doesn't enter the scene fully before the game crashes.

[u/yellaantilles]

Meanwhile me cutting off escape pods and landing gear off my Lightning so I can fly 0.5 km/h faster:

[u/TEH_Cyk0 → u/yellaantilles]

It is the way

[u/trickyboy21 → u/yellaantilles]

Part of the ship, part of the crew

[u/[deleted] → u/yellaantilles]

Escape pods avalability shoud have a morale impact.

[u/yellaantilles → u/[deleted]]

I imagine that pilots of my Lightnings are just psychopaths doing meth 24/7 so they don't have fear of death

[u/fooooolish_samurai → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, they will fight harder if there is no alternative.

[u/ArrhaCigarettes]

billions must attempt to replicate hammerfight craft in highfleet

[u/shachima]

takes 30 days to fill up fuel

[u/RHINO_Mk_II]

I don't think I've built a ship that isn't affordable in normal campaign except as a Varyag replacement for the AI to use as a challenge to the player. I have built several targeting the full 300k budget and in some instances went a little over, but still affordable with a nominal save bonus.

[u/SuicideSpeedrun]

Sure I can afford them. By the time I clear the entire map and I'm ready to defend Khiva my Sevastopol Mk. VIII is complete!

[u/kahlzun]

I'm honestly tempted to just have a pinnance as a flagship in the next run, and just go hard on the Lightning/Skylark combo

[u/crazytib]

I see no problem here......

[u/Kerboviet_Union]

I think this game featuring a creative mode for building ships basically means we get to enjoy looking at builds, and this sub wouldn’t exist or get interest without those builds being posted.

Yeah it seems like a lot of us display various flavors of autism, but trying gatekeep freebuilders and modded campaign budget players from being excited to post is wrong.

Same for unsolicited feedback about build philosophies not adhering to some arbitrary personal doctrine.

[u/BatHickey → u/Kerboviet_Union]

Is this post gatekeeping to you? It’s not to me.

[u/Ariloulei]

One of the issues with this game in general is that a big enough ship with enough armor and guns can handle pretty much anything negating the need for a fleet.

Also AI doesn't fight good making the core comabat loop kinda wonky.

[u/RHINO_Mk_II → u/Ariloulei]

Better combat AI is my #1 hope for Highfleet 2. If it's good enough it could even enable fleet v fleet battles, right now I wouldn't trust my own fleet's ships in AI hands if the game let me.

[u/TovarishLuckymcgamer]

i built a single ship and stick to that shit ever since it does get increasingly modernized with ever more bullshit so it does grow by 10% in size overtime but still the same ship

[u/kahlzun → u/TovarishLuckymcgamer]

The growth of Theseus

[u/TovarishLuckymcgamer → u/kahlzun]

its the admiral gorshkov btw, should be somewhere around this subreddit, went from a 3x2 tank arrangement with 3x2 missile tubes to 4x2 tanks and 4x2 tubes, some minor works on the radar mast and more APS placement, and thats about it, basically the same ship still if i have to describe my latest ship design i am using

[u/Polar_Vortx]

lore accurate russia

[u/bambush331]

Cool shit

I don’t like it but it’s cool