What about a new RH ship?

[sovereign]

That sounds a lot like the Kusari dessie, Sov... size makes people whine about it *all* the time. I reckon Rheinland currently has Fafnirs and Bergelmirs, just invent some new tactics for them to keep them alive longer. Like either bringing own gunboats so that they are first targets for enemy fighters (as they always are) and they buy time for bombers to get rid of the cruisers, or bring own repair ship. It's fairly simple and doesn't need another balance nightmare put into the mod.

Remember: It's not that Rheinland doesn't have enough caps, it's that Liberty has too many..

Kusari DD has cruiser weapons and heavy GB size. Cruiser weapons have significantly longer range, which means that the KU DD can kite very effectively due to its size and comparative dodging at that range. GB weapons cap out at what, 1.5k? How hard is it to hit a light cruiser at 1.5k?

The idea was something powerful enough to get on the side of an LI CC (where it's weak) and overpower it, without being able to kite anything effectively. Basically, a counter to the LI CC and possibly the LI GB which would utterly die to anything that could bring more turrets to bear. Like a Vidar, or an LABC. On either side, it would only be able to aim 4 GB turrets the way I have it drawn, thus keeping it from being a fighter-raping machine (unless you were dumb enough to get directly in front of it and stay there, of course).

If it proves to be a balance nightmare, then it can be dropped with no hard feelings. But I think such a thing could fill a nice niche and provide Rheinland with a non-vanilla cap, something that a lot of people seem to want.

I'll try and turn my sketches into a model if I can get someone to teach me how to make basic polygons... the shape is quite simple to make (by comparison to anything else in the mod, anyway) but I'm an absolute noob with modelling programs.

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