Talk:AIF/@comment-12161342-20150403124128/@comment-13235970-20150403200125

Their are a few key differences, Mostly the fact that the only way to make flying ships is with a base, as opposed to submarines, where the only reason you're using the base is so that you can disregard the problems with building such a large one.

That said, the biggest problem isn't the floating base. For the benefit of the doubt I'll concede that one. The problem is that with flying ships, the base is considered not to exist, while with your submarine, it IS the base, so we can't just say it doesn't exist. The fact remains, that if someone were to shoot the sub itself, with one hit, it would sink like a rock (regardless of the 3.5 million toughness rating it probably has).