neph Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 please god let me put it out of its misery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neph Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 nevermind it is absolutely awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neph Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 the battlecruiser you spawned with is a better looking & better designed battleship than you are https://imgur.com/8XpekiO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AurumCorvus Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 48 minutes ago, neph said: not saying it's terrible but for a battleship that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen One of the pre-dread designers temporarily escaped custody. Sorry for worrying you. No, but seriously, what's up with the weird secondary armament. Seems like somebody got the memo about centerline benefits, but forgot that this is not the pre-dread era. Also, most worryingly, that one turret that's higher than all the funnels... for some reason? Probably pretty hot in there as well, and near impossible to use local rangefinders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phelidai Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) Quote please god let me put it out of its misery LOL! That secondary on an absolute spire of a barbette is just too good. Edited March 4, 2022 by Phelidai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastreaumont Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 (edited) A minimalist and elegant design, maybe a little too much. 2x2 406mm for a 70000t battleship, it looks like "Fire power" prefered to stay at home. :-) Edited July 15, 2022 by Lastreaumont (reduce image attachement size) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littorio Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 BEHOLD this absolute ABOMINATION of a cruiser. It possesses a single 7in gun forward with almost no ammo, and two torpedo tubes, one per side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neph Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 8 hours ago, Littorio said: BEHOLD this absolute ABOMINATION of a cruiser. It possesses a single 7in gun forward with almost no ammo, and two torpedo tubes, one per side. peak colonial defense/power projection design right there. good for the ai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanhal Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 I think someone forgot to mention to AI that this is UA: Dreadnoughts not UA: Age of Sail game. It's 1910, i was fielding dreadnought by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neph Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 That's just that hull. A pretty decent one, too--especially for killing transports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phelidai Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/5/2022 at 4:35 AM, Lastreaumont said: A minimalist and elegant design, maybe a little too much. 2x2 406mm for a 70000t battleship, it looks like "Fire power" prefered to stay at home. 🙂 How considerate of the designs to put the guns up on barbettes! Keep them out of the way of the crew. Nobody likes guns taking all that valuable deck space. The captain does like to sunbathe after all. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanhal Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 5 hours ago, neph said: That's just that hull. A pretty decent one, too--especially for killing transports. Everything is good for killing transports though. Well, almost everything, here's the embarrassing moment by AI: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candle_86 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 6in gun, Austia, this CL I'm not sure is an actual threat to anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AurumCorvus Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 2 hours ago, Candle_86 said: 1 6in gun, Austia, this CL I'm not sure is an actual threat to anything It's a threat to 141 men. A very precision weapon for a very precise task. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littorio Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 14 hours ago, Candle_86 said: 1 6in gun, Austia, this CL I'm not sure is an actual threat to anything Funny that you got that one, as I had one with a single 7in gun made by AH. Must be something in their code... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candle_86 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Littorio said: Funny that you got that one, as I had one with a single 7in gun made by AH. Must be something in their code... yea just really suprised, they didnt add alot of armor, or alot of speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormnet Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 I haven't played UA:D since core v0.5, yet it both pains and warms my heart that this threat is still going with strong AI stupidity contenders. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicB Posted March 19, 2022 Author Share Posted March 19, 2022 On 3/13/2022 at 11:41 AM, Stormnet said: I haven't played UA:D since core v0.5, yet it both pains and warms my heart that this threat is still going with strong AI stupidity contenders. It's a weird feeling to constantly hope a thread you've created will just die from lack of content, and yet here we are in the year of our lord 2022~ There have been a few noticeable improvements, but I'd really hoped the devs would rework the AI designer to a template model or something else to make this thread unnecessary. And, presumably, save themselves more time in the long run debugging it every time they change something in the base designer. Sadly it seems that any incremental fixes just introduce problems somewhere else. The recent trend of hilariously underarmed cruisers has amused me with the (not entirely unfounded) headcanon that they are just repurposed royal yachts of the various inbred dynasties of Europe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Unterhosen Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) On 3/19/2022 at 8:49 AM, SonicB said: It's a weird feeling to constantly hope a thread you've created will just die from lack of content, and yet here we are in the year of our lord 2022~ There have been a few noticeable improvements, but I'd really hoped the devs would rework the AI designer to a template model or something else to make this thread unnecessary. And, presumably, save themselves more time in the long run debugging it every time they change something in the base designer. Sadly it seems that any incremental fixes just introduce problems somewhere else. The recent trend of hilariously underarmed cruisers has amused me with the (not entirely unfounded) headcanon that they are just repurposed royal yachts of the various inbred dynasties of Europe. Speaking of royal yachts, here's a handsome 27 knotter from the yards at Brest... complete with a single 5" regatta starting gun on her foredeck, and very little ammunition to make room for extra champagne to toast your victory! Edited March 21, 2022 by Admiral Unterhosen 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastreaumont Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 (edited) A nice DD, but a little too light concerning guns and torpedoes, isn't she? Edited July 15, 2022 by Lastreaumont (reduce image attachement size) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fangoriously Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Quite the heavy cruiser the AI designed here of course it wasn't balanced or optimized quite well enough to be effective, that -18.4 hull stability gives that away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastreaumont Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 My britain ally came to help me with a battleship and her escort. She looked like an exalted Nelson, with more and bigger guns. So I looked carefully about her details and I realised I just meet the quintessence of the glass canon concept. I'm not a specialist of ship design, but I think british engineer forgot something, or are a little too confident...😃 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candle_86 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 12 hours ago, Lastreaumont said: My britain ally came to help me with a battleship and her escort. She looked like an exalted Nelson, with more and bigger guns. So I looked carefully about her details and I realised I just meet the quintessence of the glass canon concept. I'm not a specialist of ship design, but I think british engineer forgot something, or are a little too confident...😃 well it does mean even a 2in round can overpen and not explode inside the ship, would likley not be terrible at point blank range as long as you can avoid plunging fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lastreaumont Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 44 minutes ago, Candle_86 said: well it does mean even a 2in round can overpen and not explode inside the ship, would likley not be terrible at point blank range as long as you can avoid plunging fire I didn't take the risk and asked her to retreat with all the escort ships while I went and fighted the ennemy BB and 2 CA with my BC alone. This was safer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellicoe Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 'Structural integrity'? Pfft. Nerds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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