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[@rjparsons3664]

You should totally take advantage of the superfiring turrets and massively upgrade the cram on the high mounted one, set it for deep penetrating EMP and lol as you fire out AI aneurysms from 10km

[@malnutritionboy]

shouldn't build gun components above the deck armour. barbettes are purely for armour purposes.

[@GMODISM]

@@rjparsons3664 superfiring? But a little bit of emp is always worth it when it comes to crams!!!

[@rjparsons3664]

@GMODISM superfiring turrets are the front two, how one is slightly raised so it can rotate above the front most turret

[@rjparsons3664]

@@GMODISM sorry for double post, but I mention deep EMP just because I made a high pen CRAM that was a mix of 180 degree frag and emp, set to a 8 block depth fuse and it was reliably killing godly designs in 1 shot, surge protector and rubber be damned 😂😂

[@GMODISM]

@@rjparsons3664 yeah! Got it, in fact the Gimle uses a mostly frag Cram with some emp, sure it helped beating the Yamato!

[@nickfejes6246]

One of the main reasons there are so many ancient deco solutions and wack design choices is because even the updated Yamato is an ancient build. Yamato was built almost 5 years ago as a non combat meme ship that crashed Marts computer at the time. He only updated it last month for his latest video, and even then it was mostly for the meme. It's only purpose was to brute force the last couple factions in his Neter campaign.

[@GMODISM]

@@nickfejes6246 tbf, mart is about mostly for the meme XD But yes, it’s ancient!

[@yyeetmax2849]

he's gonna do it! (actually hyped)

[@phoeniasaldwin6449]

Thank you sir, addressing the aesthetics under that smaller turret was very satisfying to watch

[@littletimelord2755]

For the smoothing of edges: not every edge you show off should be smooth. Some of them are very rightfully 90 degree angles. It’s just really hard to tell because of the unfinished look of this build

[@GMODISM]

@@littletimelord2755 well it’s not Minecraft, we have many options and I will show you some deco tips that hopefully will improve the looks according to all 🤞

[@darthkarl99]

@@GMODISM What he's getting at is that some of the 90 degree edges are 90 degree edges on the actual yamato IRL, and the layout is built to match that. A lot of the sue of skinny turret necks falls into that category as well, the form factor of the turrets and the bits they sit on is decided by the aesthetics of the real ship, so if you want a reasonably big and powerful weapon you have to bury the guts or they're either not going to fit or be completely unarmoured. Honestly a lot of the ships issues IMO are as much down to the fact that it's just too big. Just a basic minimum 1 layer of metal outer shell matching the aesthetics is going to cost a small fortune and that pushes everything else to be similarly oversized which creates issues with big expensive systems having to poke out onto the deck through small mounting points.

[@Tony-oq3tl]

Good to hear the community liked and had the idea aswell! I do wonder if upgrades will be mostly internal, lotta remodels or if Youre gonna do a missouri Either way its good knowing we will have a series, and have fun!

[@GMODISM]

@@Tony-oq3tl hope it will be enjoyable to see it shine!

[@Tony-oq3tl]

@ it will! But its better to see you shine! So take your time and don't overwork yourself aight? Many people tend to do that?

[@GMODISM]

@@Tony-oq3tl thanks mate! 🌞

[@Tony-oq3tl]

@ no problem! And happy new years

[@Elitex62]

Martin was the one who got me to finally spend some time to actually learn FTD. It was something I always wanted to sink my teeth into, but seeing how quick he came from making floating blocks to functional vessels just awoke something in me. I'm not afraid of a learning curve, but I learn a lot better if someone is helping me learn or is learning with me, and it felt like Mart was doing both.

[@GMODISM]

Awesome you got into it! He explains well as he goes, if you need some detailed explanations see my instant tutorials ;)

[@Elitex62]

@@GMODISM Yeah, I've been learning a lot from you. Even the battleship fights help me learn even though I'm not yet currently building that big. All I've currently done is improve some guns on historical destroyers made by other people and then made a sandblasting corvette with stability issues and then a helicopter.

[@wolfcraft484]

you should make it into Space Battleship Yamato (Replace main battery with Lasers as Shock Cannons, Make it fly in space, and give it a Spinal Laser as a Wave Motion Gun, and refit AA with Pulse Lasers)

[@GMODISM]

Haha yeah the 宇宙戦艦ヤマトis very awesome, sugoi af! However for that I feel I have to remake it from scratch in that case, would not be acceptable with a 2:1 scale of such a beauty!!! So will not be this time haha

[@wolfcraft484]

i see, absolutely makes sense due to all the minute differences

[@aktaklt]

I feel like Martin is doing great for someone who does not have a ton of hours. He did his best, and that's what matters 😃 Also, I would love to see the fixed up Yamato fight a lot of your high cost designs. Would be fun to watch 👍

[@GMODISM]

@@aktaklt indeed that we have to do as a little episode when we are done fixing!

[@arandomperson7713]

19:59 I never noticed it in the froggo’s original video, but *fin-stabilized HESH?* Fin-stabilized projectiles by definition do not spin and are fired out of smooth bore barrels (or have special adapters on the shells themselves), and HESH specifically works well with rifled barrels (as the rotation of the shell allows the soft explosive cap to spread out over the armour before detonating). Wouldn’t fin-stabilized HESH drastically reduce its effectiveness?

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

You could angle the fins soo the projectile spins, though im not sure how effective that would be.

[@Cobrax_x]

In irl yes, but not in ftd

[@GMODISM]

Exactly, in FtD the aps is actually not rifled, it’s all smooth bore basically and projectiles just magically won’t tumble ;)

[@OmicronMkI]

On the final point relating to EMP, while I don't necessarily agree with leaving a LWC unprotected on one side, it is still likely to be one of the last blocks on that turret that gets targeted by an EMP surge, only because the surge protectors would draw several surges to them first, and EMP can't backtrack so it wouldn't want to 'waste' damage potential by having to go through a rubber block. In short, not as severe of a mistake as you make it out to be, but still not advisable for long-term survivability of the turret, and it is still vulnerable to a micro-surge.

[@GMODISM]

I see what you mean, however perhaps I failed explaining that but what I tried to say is that if emp hits the hull, for example under the ship via torpedo, the surge will go for the lwc first, when it hits the turret however its safe-ish!

[@xyzero1682]

Can't wait to see the improvements.

[@ryokkeno]

About the "Large Male's" CIWS: ive seen some designs on larger craft using HE bodies to increase the targetted DPS against small salvos of larger missiles. The theory is the higher damage of the HE body will be more valuable against a few large targets as opposed to a full munition defense shell which would damage larger groups of tight salvos but may be made up of many small to medium missiles. Personally, id still build different. I don't recommend using explosive rounds under 60mm as a dedicated anti munition system. A multirole maybe, as you can spread out a little dps and HE bodies aren't terrible for adding weight to a kinetic tip but for explosive rounds i prefer a larger gauge and drop a lot of propellant.

[@GMODISM]

@@ryokkeno it’s true HE has a larger damage, but the laser targeter is not so accurate the effective damage is usually less than using MDBs due to limited range, relying on HE is generally smart in they also double as regular damage dealers.

[@ryokkeno]

@GMODISM oh, i agree. I actually don't use the laser targeter unless it's a full Munition Defense round. As you say, it's not accurate enough between the targetter itself, the detection equipment on the defending craft, and especially multi role CIWS. For my slower velocity flak rounds, though, they fuse close enough to be worth it. Bigger bore, dedicated anti-aircraft guns are the only thing I'd really be that interested in time fusing and that's usually a round big enough to hurt something with some weight behind it where it's more valuable to make some degree of contact over a potential near miss. Speaking of missing, if it is a dedicated anti Munition system, most of the rounds should be making contact anyway. I hesitate to declare it perfect accuracy, but my experience with even slower projectiles is they tend to smack right into incoming CRAMS and missiles. Hmm, that gives me an idea for a test...

[@spicethief4826]

Ooh nice. Cant wait to see how strong this thing can get.

[@meepthesheep2904]

I dont know if the comments are a good place for suggestions, but it would be really cool to watch gmodism and boarderwise do a campaign together!

[@6NEVEU9]

Theese videos perform so much better than your rest

[@Mernom]

13:00 i actually have a technique for you to consider for dealing with chain reacting turrets. Most APS systems have as many ammo loaders as they have clips/autoloaders, which means they actually _don't_ rely on ammo storage at all, as the loaders can reload as fast as the autoloaders can fire. It's a laibility. You can use a combination of breadboard and ACBs to configure the ammo loaders to only load a few shells per clip, which should reduce the size of the munition chain reaction. Obviously this is much more effective for smaller shells, as big shells don't fit as many in the clips anyway.

[@GMODISM]

Cool hack, a bit meta and borderline cheese but darn clever I give you that!!!

[@Mernom]

@@GMODISM I first experimented with it to use a vairable loadout APS gun, I swapped between a flak shell and a pen frag shell. It didn't go that well, so now I just use a mixed loadout of compatible shells in the same gun.

[@GMODISM]

@@Mernom Yeah partymix with same velocity is the best :)

[@Mernom]

It's particularly effective to mix shield breaker/emp shells in.

[@GMODISM]

@@Mernom yeah its nice, have some shield killers mixed with hesh in my boltgun turret on the Super Davidos ship :)

[@kevinpeng8295]

Looking forward to!

[@nickjohnson410]

It has no pee laser... that's the problem.

[@ok-y-pull-up]

maybe the gimle will have an real match with your upgrades

[@Allthegoodhandlesaretakenlmao]

Nice analysis! I’m still a new player and two things I noticed I probably need to work on are those emergency ejectors for the APS and getting different guns to target different ships. Do you have a tutorial on those?

[@GMODISM]

Check my aps tutorial, the recent one :) As for targeting I will make a dedicated AI tutorial, it’s included in some old tutorials also but..

[@DoiNkCascade_DOT_org]

Him reviewing the little guy sounds a lot like my English teacher reviewing my document

[@GMODISM]

😂😅 I’m sorry

[@Thetankracer]

Tbh, You're probably going to have to completely re-build that ship... Ultra Yamato of Theseus if you will :D

[@GMODISM]

Nah, it’s fixable: Hold my beer

[@TungNguyen-gl2rb]

The yamato could fight both sides and was poorly armoured, so gimle had that

[@mysteryface6475]

Hi, im new here, i like you already

[@GMODISM]

Welcome mate!

[@dripthanos5595]

i make plenty of the same mistakes he does. I suppose 500 hours is still considered "noob" territory.

[@GMODISM]

yeah this game is crazy 😂

[@BugattiONE666]

Why is the hull still full of water?

[@Nitram4392]

Pimp my ride (FTD edition)

[@colinvanniman5369]

I’m also new here, and I like this. Just getting into FTD and am able to make aps and cram stuff consistently. I definitely like this!

[@GMODISM]

Welcome mate!

[@cosmicbananas8084]

honestly shocked by the one AI core. the 150 meter long 260k ship i've been working on has 4 AI cores. overall excited to watch this series to look at said improvements, i for sure still have much to learn despite my 900 or so hours on steam. overall this vessels is amazing for something so rushed, but its flaws are easy to see at a surface glance. (although i also have the opposite problem of taking forever. took 100-150 hours to make said 150 meter craft, its skinny too)

[@angelomatulac3764]

It started with beat the ragnarok and went on to beat the gimle. Does this mean there will be a beat the yamato tournament?

[@GMODISM]

Hmmm, maybe!

[@Am_fis]

he's just a bit silly 🐸🤰

[@MIIRBH]

if japan had this ship in ww2 i don't think they would have lost, but don't quote me on that

[@plthunder3532]

@@MIIRBH i dont think the yamato would change anything it was very late in WW2 by that time Japan was losing at 2 fronts plus the nukes later

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

@@plthunder3532 Nobody is talking about the original, the poster meant Martin's depiction

[@fairygoodmuller8065]

piss laser goes brrr

[@darkstar3097]

Japan still loses easily, super yamato would obviously be OP especially with lasers, but it can still only be in one place at a time. Still needs fuel food and ammo.

[@TomCouger]

LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (This made my morning)

[@throbby1761]

Legit 100 hours in just smoothing edges incoming

[@GMODISM]

🌵

[@cola98765]

While I'm excited to see what can be improved the tone is bit off? It's like "you don't do all the meta speedrun strats why even bother" That ship may not be most efficient one, but it did do it's job of fighting base game enemies, not optimised community crafts as you end up playing into ever evolving "meta" of any multiplayer game. Like the argument about the CRAM health, sure your LAMS packed ship will destroy them so "it's dead weight", but from my testing as I, a rather low skilled individual, were doing my own refit of original museum piece I did not see anything that could shoot those shells down, including the seemingly overpowered system of this very ship itself. (note: my goal was to see how it floats and how fast it goes without usage of alloy after Martin complained about his version being slow, but laggy if you use air pumps on such large hulls)

[@GMODISM]

It’s a great design and I feel it longs to shine ✨ I’m not much into meta building too much, if you wanna see meta see the aps clip nuke mass driver turret I showed in a recent vid. Anyhow, with some 2k hours there are so many things that one can’t unsee, I feel this large ship has a awesome original 2020 project that didn’t quite get finished, and I want it to shine as I think Martin intended when he originally started on this great project!

[@cola98765]

@@GMODISM I do not look for meta either, Just one can't expect perfection from a refit done on stream to a old design that couldn't even move. Perhaps I'm just not used to your tone, and that's ok. I'll be watching this refit and possibly apply this knowledge to my own refit from original I mentioned.

[@timoting]

ooh

[@axis4399]

Like if you love Martin and gmodism, like me

[@Akday-gv3qu]

First and also excited

[@Croatoan140]

Your really milking this ship I think it maybe cause it looks better than yours

[@korwinmcpherren9729]

You're really trying your hardest to take advantage of a bigger youtuber for views huh? Stop it.

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

I belive that having a dedicated FTD player take a look at Martin's Yamato is something the people wanted, though i personally don't like his "There was no way his Yamato would've beat my ship" attitude even if it has truth to it.

[@themanwithnoname1839]

This is kind of a dumb question, its simple, yamato, ship made in the 1940's, the gimli, ship made in the 2020's lmfao rofl, the weakest modern day ships would wreck the yamato

[@realah3001]

Dinnea think ye can beat the Yamato in a patrol boat but ok