With Odyssey comming What are your initial plans for a Base assult ship?

[Heater]

As the subject states... What ships / builds are you starting with?
First out, have to try the FAS

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[Northpin]

Base assault ship?
AoE damage and a ship that looks like an attack chopper.

So a DBS armed with dumbfires (and maybe a pair of Cytos for good measure)

 

[Craith]

Eagle. Advanced missile launchers at the bottom hardpoints, Enforcer on top.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

Type-10 with and every hardpoint having a mine launcher installed

 

[Northpin]

Type-10 with and every hardpoint having a mine launcher installed

Oh well... having a T10 floating over a small settlement would feel like in Independence Day

 

[goemon]

courier. have the first months of horizons mostly spend in one. perfect for anything planetside.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Type-10 with and every hardpoint having a mine launcher installed

And a hold full of biowaste for after?

 

[Serpentis Ictis]

My Eagle. I'm going to fly down really quickly. And play with missiles!

 

[Bottom Hat]

Anything large, with a working cargo hatch. Either full of explosives, landmines, or preferably poop.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

Something with lots of hardpoints at the bottom of the ship. The FGS might be worth a look.

 

[CMDR Serra]

Enzyme missiles for the full WMD effect.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

And a hold full of biowaste for after?

Best doing that first, before the mines blow them all up.

 

[TransTechGirl]

My Type 10 with nothing but packhounds.

 

[askavir]

Base assault ship?
AoE damage and a ship that looks like an attack chopper.

So a DBS armed with dumbfires (and maybe a pair of Cytos for good measure)

This, with the Ride of the Valkyries playing loudly.

 

[Captain Warp]

I was thinking I'd try Frags rather than missiles. Something like : Coriolis
I guess we will have to wait and see what is most effective....

 

[wenkman]

what for? just use the ship you already have.

how i imagine it will go:

Plan from FD:

• Ships guarding the outpost, should be attacked with ships (FDL)
• Ground Turrets and personal, engaged with SRV
• Inhouse fighting, engaged on foot

How it will be:

• somebody witll figure out a loophole
  • carpet bombing with mines
  • dumbfire missiles
  • long range sniping
  • <anything else>
• hectic nerfing and adjusting so settlement attacks are not solvable for 3 months

 

[GloatingSwine]

Chances are they're going to softball the response just like they do for all the existing ganking, and if you want to go outside anywhere vaguely populated you need to do it in solo/PG because it'll rain mines like rains, well, rain in Cardiff.

 

[Semivivus]

• Gunship with fixed multicannons.
• Vulture with one multicannon and one dumbfire missile rack.
• Cobra MkIII with dumbfires and mine launchers.
• Type-10 as mentioned with whatever apocalyptic loadout.

But I won't make any builds in advance until I see what modules are available at launch and how effective they are for base assault.

 

[aRJay]

As the subject states... What ships / builds are you starting with?
First out, have to try the FAS

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Hadn’t even considered one.

So first thoughts I would need to check the blueprints to check hardpoint placements, the hardpoints need to be underneath and at the front to allow good arcs of fire while not compromising flight performance deep in a gravity well.

Edit: Second thoughts the ship is going to have to deal with the fire from all the base turrets as well as plasma rifles and rocket launchers from everybody on the ground so it has to be very tough or agile or cheap. Perhaps a Hauler.

 

[Northpin]

long range sniping

That could work with fixed long range cannons with high yield mounted on a cold ship. Sniping from 7km would be possible with medium fixed cannons.
i do think that aoe explosive damage will be the most effective thing against ground targets - but guess we will find out eventually