Ship Builds & Load Outs Designing a multicrew 'Conda

[roboteconomist]

I just spent most of the last six months out in the black, so I'd like to get back to mix things up by getting back into combat and the one thing I would really like to try is multicrewing.

To that end, I've decided to switch my 'Conda over to a multicrew platform with turrets and fighter bay. I am going to set aside all of my large and medium hardpoints for the gunner, only keeping a huge rapid fire MC, a small high capacity MC with corrosive shells and a small long range pulse laser with scramble spectrum for myself.

I'd like the gunner seat to be relative noob friendly, so I want to give them fairly easy-to-use weapons:

Loadout 1: Boring but straightforward
x3 Large beams with G5 efficient mod
x2 Medium beams with G5 efficient mod

Loadout 2: Jittery mess
x3 Large pulses with G5 rapid fire mod
x2 Medium pulses with G5 rapid fire mod

Loadout 3: Jittery messier
x3 Large pulses with G5 rapid fire mod
x2 Medium frag cannons with G4 double shot (still haven't unlocked Nemo)

Loadout 3: Sniper
x3 Large pulses with G5 focused mod (with phasing sequence where possible)
x2 Medium beams with G1 long range mod

Thoughts? Anything I haven't considered?

 

[ThriveInDark]

I just did this same thing and its quite a fun ship. I went with 1 Huge Efficient Beam and 1 Large Rapid Fire MC both gimballed for me, then 2 long range large and small pulse turrets, and 2 high capacity medium multi cannon turrets. The rest was just a class 6 fighter bay (mostly for me to fly while my 2 friends crew the big ship actually, I'm a small ships guy). Here is a coriolis build with all the mods added and accurate. I figured long range pulse lasers give them maximum range to work with and high cap multi's are easy as well. Not quite a CZ machine, but Bounty Hunts like a monster and can do any other multi role work I may ask of it.

https://eddp.co/u/jGczSoce

If you want to do some fighter/wing antics, a healing beam could be pretty useful. I haven't gotten around to all the special effect rerolling yet, since I didn't have the materials to go back up through the ranks over and over at the time I was setting her up.

 

[Ozram]

I just did this same thing and its quite a fun ship. I went with 1 Huge Efficient Beam and 1 Large Rapid Fire MC both gimballed for me, then 2 long range large and small pulse turrets, and 2 high capacity medium multi cannon turrets. The rest was just a class 6 fighter bay (mostly for me to fly while my 2 friends crew the big ship actually, I'm a small ships guy). Here is a coriolis build with all the mods added and accurate. I figured long range pulse lasers give them maximum range to work with and high cap multi's are easy as well. Not quite a CZ machine, but Bounty Hunts like a monster and can do any other multi role work I may ask of it.

https://eddp.co/u/jGczSoce

If you want to do some fighter/wing antics, a healing beam could be pretty useful. I haven't gotten around to all the special effect rerolling yet, since I didn't have the materials to go back up through the ranks over and over at the time I was setting her up.

I think you're the only one can pilot the mothership during multicrew sessions. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[ThriveInDark]

I think you're the only one can pilot the mothership during multicrew sessions. Correct me if I'm wrong.

We didn't attempt it during our first (and only so far) session, as I didn't really trust my buddy as a brand new combat pilot for my 30M rebuy, but I was going to let him have a go this weekend. I'll let you know if it works. I thought like you did that only I could pilot the mothership, but someone on the forums told me that I should be able to pilot the fighter while my friend flies the conda.

 

[Ozram]

We didn't attempt it during our first (and only so far) session, as I didn't really trust my buddy as a brand new combat pilot for my 30M rebuy, but I was going to let him have a go this weekend. I'll let you know if it works. I thought like you did that only I could pilot the mothership, but someone on the forums told me that I should be able to pilot the fighter while my friend flies the conda.

Look forward to your results one way or another.

 

[roboteconomist]

Happy to report the 'Randos On Board' had its first session with randos. They both wanted to fly fighters, so all that effort engineering was for naught

There is always next time, I suppose.

 

[ThriveInDark]

Happy to report the 'Randos On Board' had its first session with randos. They both wanted to fly fighters, so all that effort engineering was for naught

There is always next time, I suppose.

You could always go to a size 5 fighter bay and then one has to use the turrets haha. It'd be fun to get a wing of 2 Anacondas set up like this with a couple fighters each and then a Vulture/Courier/Viper etc or two for a CZ. In theory you could have 9 group members flying around right? (5 Wingmembers, 4 crew (2 per Conda))