Not to mention they were 18 inch cannons resulting in them being a lot slower to fire etc. And when it comes to dealing with swarms of small craft, volume of fire being thrown up in a given amount of time is nearly as important as proper aiming.
Alternatively you can go entirely the other direction and use nuclear ordnance in the air defense role. While of limited use against above average airframes it does give the ability to destroy an entire attack wave with a handful of simultaneous launches.
I'd say Khorne does not look upon with favor those that get their ass kick.
You aren't wrong... Khorne itself (to use the more strictly correct reference as the Chaos Gods aren't even truly individuals) won't judge you, it's daemons and servants will.
I suppose this would also be an option for redesigning our Atomic Warheads?
Don't think it'd be worth the action and how much ship redesign we'd have to do to make it fit though.
They're nuclear in nature, even if they are ICBMs rather than SRBMs or heavy SAMs, so they could be used as such I suppose. Realistically the best way to get these would be AA and Strategic Command on a ground army.
Didn't you mention earlier that combination was also the way to get limited anti-shipping assets down into our armies hands too? We've mostly needed direct fighting forces so far, but part of the 'I would like to build up before we start something else new and big' I'm suggesting is the desire to get a few armies of that type out and, like, maybe some air armies too and the old 'heavy arty+strat command+sappers' combo that's been mentioned as allowing for major earthmoving efforts. We also could just use some more armies if we're going to keep invading things.
In fairness, a lot of that aggressiveness was because we were having to rush around, putting out fires. And that aggressive stance has ultimately paid off in dividends. But yes, some time to refit, rearm and get ready for the next wave would be nice. Apart from Legcutta, we're mostly in such a state of strength that we could probably spare a turn to just build up our forces again.
Anti-orbital missiles are specialized enough that that'd be HeavyArt+AA+StratCom if you want to do more than threaten ships in orbit. But you can get away with just the latter two if all you want is to discourage them away from your zones of control.
If we had a chance for a redo, I find myself wishing we hadn't attacked turn 1 and had instead gone to Oprechna or Homna early. Seems like there was some low-hanging fruit we missed out on.
Stuff like that, yah. And also I wish we'd hit the ork planet with the orbital platforms instead of the rok base and stolen one, and so on, but on the other hand we didn't actually do bad. Things could be a lot worse right now then then they currently are even if they could also be better.
Sounds good to me, as long as we don't open another big front.
The Lexicalum fleet is far larger then i expected even if these four ships are their entire fleet.
Almost overshadowed by the larger naval battle the end of the Homna campaign will free up ground forces to go on the attack at Latvia/help at the hiveworld.
I am not sure about this, can its machine spirit survive getting shot out of a railgun that had loads of electricity flowing through it? how does it steer itself once it is fired? If it the machine spirit can be guided into the enemy strike craft, why not just make it into a HEAT round and potentially cause a detonation of the strikecraft's engine/fuel/munitions rather than hypersonic flak?
Going to let you in on a couple of secrets:
As someone who also have made designs at 3 am and only have a beginner level of understanding in most sciences that can be used in weapons because "sci-fi weapons are cool and I want to know more about them" I know how you feel.
I guess if the Thunder Snow fired sabot rounds that are actually guided missiles, it could work. The sabot would insulate the missile from the huge voltage. I think this is how the Seeker Macro-round is going to work too because Macro-cannons are railguns as plenty of members have mentioned. So it being a saboted missile could be a possible way for your batteries to work. Yes, while a thumbnail sized piece of shrapnel is dangerous, 40k stuff is Really well armored as a rule so just hypersonic shrapnel isn't really going to literally cut it. You are gonna need to have a bigger punch and a HEAT round would give that punch.
I'm the guy who adds the research suggestions to the list so I'll add it if you feel like you don't need any more changes, I usually wait to see if anyone argues and offers suggestions first before adding it in. If you can quote them for me, it would make it easier to find.
Ah insomnia the source of and doom for so much inspiration.
Point and a nice idea, I was under the impression that we weren't dealing with the well armoured stuff and that numbers and ordnance where the bigger threats, though pumping out large numbers of anti-armour rounds may work just as well for us, I'll try to get it rewritten by the next research phase.
Here you go
Ah, I remember these ones. I'll add that to the list.
Thank you, I only realised that the name was taken while at work and had yet to think of a new name so thanks for that.
That might get confusing considering we also have access to Sisters Hospitaller from the Sororitas.
Might make for good omake fodder though.
