Thread:Sambobsung/@comment-1715389-20130630043655/@comment-1715389-20130630211538

@DocWeldin The closest I could come to that while still being decently realistic would be some futuristic warship that uses something other than 46 cm guns for their main armament (there were battleships planned to have bigger guns, such as H-44, with 50 cm guns, and the supposed H-45 which would've had 80 cm guns).

Basically, they won't be Battleships, so to speak. There are four possibilities I've considered:

1) A Supercarrier, by virtue of the sheer number of planes it can carry; one ship I have, Leviathan, is technically one of these, but can't carry many planes because of the arbitrary parts limit and the fact that aircraft are both expensive and count towards that limit.

2) An Arsenal Ship.  Basically, these were a Reagan-era pipe dream of a VERY large surface vessel carrying a MASSIVE load of missiles, a true incarnate of the "Macross Missile Massacre".  Interestingly enough, the first of these was to have been registered as BB-72, meaning it would be considered a Battleship.  The designation BB-72 is because the last battleship ordered (but never built) was USS Louisiana (BB-71), a Montana-Class battleship.

3) An SSBN (Ballistic Missile Submarine) or a "Boomer" as they're called informally.  This ship would be based heavily on something like the Russian Typhoon-Class or Borei-Class (I'm tempted to ask Yamato if I can use his design).  However, the missile launchers are expensive and cannot be used underwater (although in reality the Tomahawk CAN be launched underwater; I guess it's to keep subs from becoming TOO overpowered).  Also, submarines are INCREDIBLY difficult to build.  I've tried building one from scratch using a method other than screws on the bottom of the hull (the same used by the U-Boat and Soryu), but it ended up diving too deep, way too quickly and sunk.

4) The closest to an actual "super warship" while still being somewhat realistic would be a hybrid between an SSBN and a carrier.  Such a submarine would be heavily influenced by the Scinfaxi-Class from Ace Combat 5; however, it's as expensive as both a sub AND a carrier combined, AND subs in general are both temperamental and unrealistically hard to build.  Seriously, Phyzios needs to add ballast tanks that allows one to control their depth in a manner similar to a throttle...