⚠️ Flashing warning
Basically the entire sky lights up every time I open up with the main batteries here. It's probably a photosensitivity hazard!
So I built a Highfleet battleship
Most of the capital ships in this game are support ships - flaghsip cruisers provide early detection, ELINT, fuel, missile support, etc. to the rest of the fleet. They're still heavily armed, but will take damage, suffer attrition, and reduced function at their primary roles if you just drive them head-first into front line engagements.
But I wanted to see what it would be like to build one from the ground up designed to just utterly decimate fleets - basically purpose built to pass a difficulty 10 shipyards test with opponent ships up to large size (which includes enemy flagships!)
I could still tweak this, it has thick armour where it doesn't get hit, which could be moved to where it does get hit more often. One of my goals here was also to make something that looks vaguely like a ship, not just a perfectly round blob of armour or "just a box of cannons."
It's absolutely not campaign-viable, it absolutely devours fuel and doesn't carry very much of it. It would need a whole support fleet just to feed it and keep it running. You could probably actually make it work with the right escorts, but I also think being able to roll over any opposition without slowing down would also just make the campaign less interesting.
But I think this game is neat and it's a very satisfying amount of bang, so I'm gonna share it here anyway.
