New ship plans

[kikatsu]

let me just throw out an idea

the assualt frigate in homeworld is a rather nice all around craft, but sluggish and can't defend itself against smaller ships... her weapons are 4 turrets and two plasma cannons


now I figure maybe we can have a ship, a bit bigger than a gunboat... maybe give it 4 cruiser guns, 2 gunboat forward guns and heavy armor but a gunboat shield? the defensive parts have to be worked out, but this kind of ship would basically be for attack...it still would have trouble with fighters, but gunboats and cruisers...should be able to do a number on those

also it should not have enough energy to fire a missle or mortar, but the two gunboat forward cannons would provide nice firesupport