Your amusing imagery tempts me magic man.
Agreed, quite frankly, if one of these tanks were hit hard enough to bypass all of the defenses we layered on it, short of equipping the crew with Ithilmar, they are unlikely to survive the attention of whoever/whatever shot them anyways. And that's assuming they survive their tank being busted open so violently
Maybe once we've spun up enough VGA and Sunblaster foundries.
brigantine. we already have a foundry for it printing 450 armor, and we need VGW(can we please stop referring to it incorrectly) for our warrior not protected behind reinforced armored medium crew area and 3 built in defenses.
well, your kind of embracing a "be the turtle in a tank in a bunker" mindset. it's a fairly unproductive mindset where you go so ridiculously excessive on defense no matter what role the vessel is intended to play that you sacrifice effectiveness almost entirely, if we were anyone but broken ass space elves. instead it's more of a 60% drop in the vehicle serving it's intended purpose effectively.
I think when we have really nothing to do, we can make a super mobile holo-field light power armor for crews so they can just run away giggling. But until then brigandine is good.
And if the option at the start is impacting the ability to change that I don't think we will even get the chance here for a very long time or having a really fucking bad time.
A fully sealed light power armour equipped with a buffed-up sensor suite and holo-field projector would be a godsend for all vehicle crews. It would also be a magnificent gift to the Harlequins, so I am all for it.
Pathetic. Only fractions of stars? We can do better. Create a webway inside of a star and open the gate every time we want to turn a small country into ash.
You can do a light power armor with a Holo-Field and Power Assist for 5EP and for 6 EP you can add 4 stacks of Power-Assist to make them even speedier while probably being able to win a fist fight with an Ork Nob or Mega-Nob.
I do think this model is far less flexible than people believe. currently, if we for any reason decide we want a second vehicle weapon, the added costs are nothing to laugh at. if it were fielding two vehicles weapons instead, we could still use one of them for two heavy weapon slots with no conversion cost, while leaving 10 system slots. it's overall slightly more flexible in terms of a spending towards tank variations without massive EP investment.
no option yet. every aspect of our process for building a proper military has been made vastly more efficient just by building the tier 1 infrastructure. do you really think we've hit the summit of logistics efficiency? because we haven't. their is room yet to climb and I've no doubt we will eventually be able to print warhosts more freely, because according to the numbers the average large craft world has a few thousand warhosts compared in scale to Zahr-Tann.
If I read your cost comparison correctly, you're advocating a Fata Morgana design which leaves most of its system slots empty and calling that good. But you're not leaving the same approximate number of slots empty on the Hammer in your comparison, which is an artificial cost inflation. There is nothing that stops us from leaving vehicle weapon slots empty on the Hammer if we want to.
Honestly if we have the option I'd rather replace the holofield with chamoline plating. Tank drivers won't be using the holofield 90% of the time and can likely get by with it's less effective cousin.
