08-26-2015, 11:21 AM
(08-26-2015, 11:10 AM)Saberuneko Wrote:Underside weaponry on starships is always difficult, it forces either a lot of agility (hard to get out of a million ton warship) or a mirrored 2D design. Of course you have to account for that mirror, starships generally don't want wild cross sections due to collision risks, and then ammo magazines and loading mechanisms cause a space issue with any small cross section. For example although my Typhoon-class is very large most of that space is plating, and it's guns have very large and rugged mechanisms, making a weapon mirror impossible, so it simply has to have disproportionate ability to move itself in 3D. On the other side the Dragon-class is much narrower and shorter but it arranges it's guns into clustered batteries that share a magazine and a few loading parts, as well as using much more modern and compact autoloaders in the first place, while it still can't manage a full mirror configuration it's underside is able to boast roughly 50% of the dorsal guns, enough to present a token threat until the ship rolls to reengage. You could of course always experiment with a shared autoloader for two guns, but that would negatively impact fire rate when used together and the loss of redundancy plus added complexity is a mighty dangerous combo on a warship.(08-26-2015, 05:51 AM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote: start from 8:24
after watching Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, having the bridge outside and on top isnt all bad, in case the ship is too badly damaged it can detach and fly away assuming no one shoots it first.
The only issue I see with the SB Yamato is that the only defense it has on the bottom on the ship is a painted floating line to disuade enemies from getting under it.
No cannons on the ship's belly, none. xD
I found an interesting alternative with bridge allocation, when thinking on how to design my own ship, the CX9... it has two bridges: A fake one on the top only used by the main gunners to aim the railguns, and the real one on the bottom, with the engines. The whole ship acts as armor/protection for the bridge and engines, whenever the front of the ship becomes unusuable, the back of the ship detaches, turns around and uses all the main thrust of the ship to fly away, leaving the front (which is weaponry, ammo storages and cargo bay)
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