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Screenshot with pods external to illustrate the answer to questions from the forums at davidweber.net.Related content
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Do you envision the missile pods being stacked similarly in the Medusa- and Invictus-class magazines? Prior to House of Steel I assumed that the Medusa's pod core simply extended cleanly through the ship, but I wasn't too sure what to make of House of Steel's reference to missile pods being stacked as "double rings" in the magazine.
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Yeah, it'll be a similar setup. It's about the only way to have the textev number of pods while also having room for everything else. At least with SD(P)-sized ships, we have a bit more room to play with.
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The positioning of the KH1 platform really underscores how deprecated beam armament has become by 1922 in larger ships - that sacrificing half of a warship's offensive beams has gone from unthinkable to necessary because energy-range combat just isn't happening among ships larger than heavy cruisers.
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I agree. It's almost to the point where you have to wonder, "Why bother with energy weapons at all?" Only an idiot would actually *do* that, but still...
However, with defenses against missile storms getting better - LACS, Keyhole, etc. - it might just go back to the pre-war stalemate, formalized battles, in which case, energy armament might come in handy again. Either that, or Weber has something up his sleeve re: energy weapons akin to the difference between pre- and early-war missile combat and current missile combat.
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If someone tries using the Crippler as missile defense that could help. Just pulse the wedges to make a large cluster of incoming missiles blow up. Multiple ships pulsing their wedges in succession mean missiles keep going boom. It also means no outgoing fire as well, plus you need to make sure allied ships are out of the zone of effect too so their wedges don't have trouble.
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"An idiot, or a Sollie, but I repeat myself..."
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LOL. Yeah, I noticed that...
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Well, the USS Long Beach (CGN-9) technically had guns, but they never fired them and I recall reading that by the end of her career they were rusted to uselessness.
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At least in the environment they're in, lasers and grasers won't rust.
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Yeah... frankly, I was surprised myself when I finally placed the pods to size the opening at the aft hammerhead. I knew that tolerances were going to be pretty close for an Aggie, but I didn't think they'd be *that* close. As I mentioned elsewhere, there's not even enough room for a standard RMN warship corridor at the dorsal and ventral centerlines. At best, it'd be a 2 meter tall corridor - high enough for an average human to walk through, but still awfully low, considering even a current real-world basement ceiling is only 15 cm higher than that.
As for the Keyhole platforms, remember that what's depicted in my images so far is only KH1. KH2 is even larger than this. Roughly twice the mass, I believe.
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Some fans on the Forums seem to dislike how disparaging DW is being with the Pod laying Battlecrusier type. This image really hammers home just how close to the surface the pod core is to the ships hull and how vulnerable that makes them to return fire. While the Agamemnons will probably do well for the remainder of the series I now doubt we will see any new Pod-layer designs. (At least from the people who know what they are doing, DW has hinted in the past that some Sollie designs might get a bit esoteric as they try to close the tech gap, and knowing what some WW2 design prototypes ended up looking like they might get very unusual).
Also I had no idea that the Keyhole 2 platforms were so large until your images came in. Keyhole 3 or later will probably focus on making them smaller and more efficient. But now I understand somewhat about the modifications and design changes that had to be made to incorporate them.
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It looks like a penetrating hit would pretty much wreck an entire rack of pods and probably take an entire set of rails offline. Given that warships frequently must take penetrating hits...
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Well, thats what happened to Michelle Henkes Aggie, the HMS Ajax, at the Battle of Solon. As you remember several missile hits crippled the aft impeller ring and destroyed the pod deployment system of the battlecruiser. And it also damaged both boat bays which made escaping the crippled ship extremely difficult.
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