I love that the ship was called "Impending Lawsuit"

I feel like a railgun ship that's designed to never be hit while the Malal's Wrath brawls is my favorite idea for this fleet composition

26:00 Your elctro bolts were hitting the Railgun, sapping the railgun of Power. As the Railgun requires power.

This now requires Lathrix to throw everything in a system into the sun after completion

The reversed sound is amazing

the fact the first ship he tested it on was named impending lawsuit is amazing.

Oh how I'd missed the lathrixian insanity! XD On a different note, around minute 18 or so at the station there was a mission you've already completed (Deathrito)

The reversed sound gave me chills but was also cool. I am always existed for the intro on these videos!

A ship specialized in long range combat by pushing ships away with tractor beams would be interesting to see

Most normal Lathrix intro xD

i think you just summoned a demon to my house with that intro my fcking light popped few seconds after it xD

might be worth making a seperate screening ship dedicated to point defence

Maybe a laser/tractor beam brawler that pulls enemies into its "Jaws" before consuming them that way?

Oh boy, Lath's Eldritch side showed.

a railgun-based ship with high mobility would be interesting, enough range to not be in trouble and high mobility to get weak points

That’s it into the sun with you

I think a Railgun Flanker would be a nice addition to your fleet. Just one that bypasses front armor/shields and goes for the weakpoints on the side/back while the Wrath takes aggro. Plus, while you have the Tractor pull enabled, you can stop the enemy from turning with the mandibles on the Wrath and trap it while the Railgun digs into the prey. hehehe

generally the best way to defend is somewhere between as much shields per square centimeter as you can cram, or excessive armor PS check out railgun fans, for those uninformed you stack bunch of railguns as long as you can get and set them to only shoot the target and then for each volley, you turn ship from left to right so that each railgun just passes the target, essentially allowing to stack a lot of damage on a small area

AND NOW HE'S SPEAKING DEMONIC. That's it. I'm calling the Inqui- ...D-did he just yeet a station into a sun...? Erm...C-carry on...

If you do decide to use ion beams I think it will look really cool of you put the emitters at the very back of the ship, and then have prisms dotted along the right side - so you have a laser that wraps across the right side of the ship.

Haha, its fun to see you recognize the baelor reaper. It's one of the classic designs slightly revamped for modern, since it looked so good and fit in the aesthetic well

Grabbing all the missions will populate them on your galaxy so you know where they all are. Easier to grab what you want, and avoid if necessary. You can have any number of missions, and they only show up if your in the system, and the ones shown on the UI are always the closest 3.

Lathrix! I do the exact same strat, except I just build a ship to push the friendly space stations into the sun after I have done all of the missions for them, it also makes it so that any ship trying to dock with the space station gets vaporized too, and then to get the resources I just build with them in range.

Watching the ship evolve over time is quite fun. I love it when Lathrix gets really detailed with his builds, like he has in this season.

OK, for your next ship, try this: If you have two of the focussing crystals pointing into each other (for the ion beams), they produce a feedback loop, resulting in a maximum of 4x the input power, also ion beams do more damage at closer range. So build a ship with a giant maw, with an ion beam (or several) cutting across it. Use a tractor beam, and drag the enemy into it for massive damage. I know this is kinda the same role as the Wrath, but it would be so cool, and if it was really manoeuvrable, it could hit the enemy from the other side, then you could trap them between two brawlers. Alternatively you could set it up to be relatively unmaveoverable but have a ton of shields, and loads of armour, then just have it engage first and be a massive indestructible block, covered in lasers. With some care the ion crystals could direct the ion beam in a ring around the whole ship, so you don't have to care which side is pointing at the enemy, as long as you crash into them. Then use tractor beams (like 3 of them) to be able to latch onto the enemy and laser them to death. Besides this, you could set the ions up so you can switch them between long range and brawl mode, then you could have a ship engage with big lasers from afar, then as the enemy gets close it turns into a giant bitey mouth of doom. This game isn't really meant to have melee, but this would provide it. Other than that, I'd kinda like to see a ship focussed on the basic (or heavy) lasers, or maybe a mix of energy weapons (and maybe railguns) - something which can manoeuvre around the enemy to hit weak spots with accuracy, while the Wrath engages in brawling.

Definitely want to see maybe a rocket launcher with emp blasts mixed with a rail gun, so you won't have to worry about shields while doing massive damage from afar

You could just build a big ball of layered armor, shields and point defense. It doesn't even need engines. Then push it around with the tractor beam holding it in front of you as a shield to soak up the damage.

I'd love to see a railgun artillery ship with missile support and high amounts of point defense oh and you could use the tractor beam in case something gets to far or close and instead of a armor heavy ship a thruster heavy ship to accommodate the long range aspects of the ship so you can get to the side of a ship and decimate them like the bugs they and then harvest the corpse of them to use them to add to the Scorn's power idk if I'm good at naming but I think scorn fits the theme of the other ships

I love that Lathrix has thought of the people stuck in the 2nd dimension of sdrawkcab swoc.

That poor worker being sent into the sun. "Come with meee and you'll seeee.....a WORLD OF OSHA VIOLATIO-"

I love how it's called impending lawsuit, really fits what's he's doing and what's about to happen

Again arm the Khorne's forge, even if it's a tractor beam or mining laser.

EMP missiles have the longest range in the game, HE missiles are cheap and can fire decently fast and overwhelm an enemy, Railguns can pierce through unshielded sections (sometimes going through then entire ship in one shot), Railguns also can snipe cockpits allowing most of the ship to be intact (make sure to have sensors though because the Railgun range is higher than the default sight lines if accelerators are added onto it which I recommend), Ion beams are good consistent damage when mid range and increase when closer to the target (be wary about prisms because they beam loses power for every prism) Nukes do massive damage but cannot turn and once fired go in the direction that they fired.

Lathrix casually commiting warcrimes, as per usual. ^^ "But my honor, I didnt push the ship, it flew into the sun itself! Infact I tried to safe it! Everything past that is legitimate salvage..."

Hey Lath! Quick tip on getting (almost) ALL ressources from sun-destroyied ships; Build a new ship next to the scap outside the danger zone of the sun, the ship will FIRST take ressources that lie around before taking any in your inventory (so basically they teleport). Then abandon/destroy your ship. Congrats, you salvaged like 99% of the scrap. Bonus tip: Sell all your ressources to a station before pushing it into the dangerzone. This way you get the money AND can then keep the ressources. lol

The ion beam has the benefit that the beams hit "instant" and precisely where you aim, what's in my opinion is the biggest advantage over cannons and rockets. The damage and range are also great. Keep in mind that you loose damage when you combine to much beams into the same prism ! Best is to never combine them or when you combine only add 2 at a time.

I have an idea for the ship,you could do a prism, railgun precision build, and a tractor beam or two to keep things at range

Why is hearing that Latrhix committed war crimes the least surprising thing I’ve heard all week? I love this channel.

Loving the return of the series it's amazing

*burns alive a giant spaceship" that was really goofy -latrix

reminds me of the Nightmare Fuel section for tv tropes Starsector

Larhland superiority on display as always. Thank you for always playing the best games. Bought this one after your first video and have dumped a depressing amount of hours into it

This was a fun episode. What was happening with the Railgun is that you were turning it off with your Disruptors. Sapping the energy from the launcher. I'd say a long range support ship with Missiles and a Doom Rail. If FTD taught me anything it's that you love Doom Crams and Missiles ;)

I do love that at the very first opportunity he commits war crimes against his allies for personal gain. Thats our Lathrix! :)

I would recommend placing flack guns on the outer pincers of your ship and replacing the point defence you have there as flak guns if used correctly can be an unbreakable shield for missiles and a slow torturous death for your enemies

Honestly wasn’t expecting to click the video and witness Lathrix commit war crimes for ten minutes straight, and yet here we are. I’m not sure whether I should laugh or scream. 10/10. Would watch again.

loving the series and looking forward to more to come down the line

apsolutely great. looking forward to every one of these videos.

Button to thank Lathland for editing so well and being a respectable high quality UKpostsr \/ ❤

The name of the first ship you pushed into the sun "Impending lawsuit" and you saying i'm most likely committing war crimes here, Priceless!

Loved the content! Subbed, and I hope that you do some more in the future!

Tractor beams combined with railguns is a pretty powerful combo, but also requires quite a bit of power management. You can force enemies out of range or keep them locked in front while your railguns pelt away at them. The ion beams are by far the strongest as long as you avoid chaining more than 2 of them together. The main drawback is the insane power draw and crew requirements to field enough of them to break through just about any ship. My absolute favorite combo those is EMP missiles and nukes. My flagship has just 2 nuke and EMP launchers, but is capable of leveling level 8-10 ships easily with just those two. A nuke barge is by far the most powerful ship type in the game and is the only thing capable of "deleting" entire ships regardless of their level. My recommendation? You're far enough into the game that nuke production is trivial, so I'd say kit out a nuke barge and enjoy the shear destructive power it has. Have 4 - 6 EMP launchers at the back and line both the front and sides with with 12+ nuke launchers. There's no amount of flak in the universe that can stop that type of nuke barrage.

Here's an idea for you- A central facility? One big well defended MEGAFACTORY that just stays in one place- And you have a ship with tractor beams to bring corpses to it.

Love your content lathrix! And I would definitely enjoy seeing your take on a long range Doom rail gun with some supporting EMP missiles for those pesky shields.

To fire the big cannons forever, it takes 22-26 crew (4 for powering factories. 4 gunners, rest ammo / sulfur) and 3 ammo factories. There’s an excellent post on Reddit with some suggestions for configuration, but I wound up coming up with my own spin on it to fit the shape of my ship. This way, the explosions never have to stop! (Practically speaking, it’s super handy to not have to reload when trying to take on a pirate base with three scary ships defending it.)

I think a very fast strafing craft with the ion beam, to get to a weak point of a ship and very precisely remove reactors

I have had a go at this cheeze myself it is fun, sadly I had found out at the cost of 300ish lives about the Crew to Sun interaction, I suspect a Super Shield enveloping them might work, but have to try again I am working on a Brick atm. Once again Lath the intro was funny love the lil tweaks to it :)

Taking a tractor beam and pushing allies into the sun to collect their gizzards, why didn't I think of that? Because I'm not a PSYCHOPATH!! lol Holy heck that was some funny stuff. =]

Praise the algorithm! For a ship suggestion, how's that: Eye of Terror, a fat ship with an idea of a Death Star - a bunch of ion lasers conjoined into one beam of destruction via prisms?? basic - yes. Extremely fun - yes. also, for extra fruity flavour, you can add railguns behind the laser system, so that you can shoot them through the same hole as the lasers

Thank you for such a fun great video as you work hard.

I saw a video that shows you can enter the sun’s damage radius without taking damage if you have full shield coverage and strong enough shields

Lath is having too much fun with these intros lmao. they're amazing XD

i think the ship stuck on the station was pushing it into the sun at 6:20 "if i cant get anything from this no one will" also a ship that takes multiple lasers and focuses them into one death laser would be pretty interesting, not sure how the damage is calculated tho or how easy it would be to build without being massive LOVING this series

Tractor beam + laser microwave. Make a big maw full of lasers and have a tractor beams to pull ships into this maw/kill zone.

That the ship you tested the Tractor Beam on was called "Impending Lawsuit" just seems so appropriate 😂🤣

Make my day when I see you posted a vid

make a missile barrage ship with a ridiculous amount of missiles. like, if an opposing crew member were to look out of the ship, they would not see space. just missiles. that would be beautiful

Having a highly mobile, purpose-build fighter as a second ship can be really useful. I like having an eight ion beam ship (focused down into one crystal) to flank and precisely take out reactors/cockpits. Another super useful one is something I call a 'screener', literally just covered on every side in point defense with a small number of shields to protect from incidental fire. The screener doesn't do any offense, but is a life saver against missile and nuke carriers-- especially if you have multiple fighters, since mass HE missiles will devastate them. The Ion ship takes 40-50 crew to keep the beam at 100% uptime, the screener about 20-25 to keep the point defense firing, or less if you just want to protect from an initial salvo of missiles and longevity is less important to you.

I think it's time to shuffle off of malal's brute force tactics for a more surgical approach. Something small and agile, maybe outfitted with a few missile launchers? Some EMP missiles to deal with any shields, then a couple nukes to send out to their vitals at close range for maximum precision. Note that I didn't mention speed when I said small and agile; you don't need to be fast in approach if you just don't get hit.

I've always liked the idea of a railgun artillery ship that is lightly armoured but has a massive railgun (potentially spanning the entire length of the ship) and pelts away at the enemies at maximum range. EMP missiles, if they can reach the enemy, would be a nice addition to counter shields.

The usefulness of the HE Missiles is to fire them out the sides of your ship so they arc out and around behind your enemy. You can target components (command, power, crew, thrusters), and HE missiles will swing around to hit your enemy from behind. If you can't hit a rear-exposed command module, HE Missiles can help reduce enemy mobility, if nothing else.

I absolutely love the idea of a rail gun artillery ship because you’d basically be building a space grade super sniper

I love watching people commit mass war crimes, especially Lathrix

The directional energy weapon is seriously cool. Would love to see how you manage to make a ship designed around a ship carver lol

I’ve picked up this game because of your vids and it’s awesome! My next plan is a swarm of micro ships to surround targets.

Mining lasers can be used as a weapon system in addition to a salvaging aid. And, since they don't need to be on the perimeter, it'd be cool to have a heavily-armored, heavily-shielded mining craft with tractor beams that could venture into the stars' danger-zones, but also is a fully functional warship that just vivisects the enemy vessels.

Extra ship: A flanker. Also if you see a mission without a distance it typically means you have completed it, accept and then cash out.

For the next ship, either go with ion beams using the prisms to combine a bunch together (maybe a diagonal ship?), or a 'railfan', a ship with multiple railguns that you turn from side to side while targeting a specific block to just shred through enemies with pinpoint accuracy

Hey Lathrix, I recommend an extremely fast railgun flanker. The rail is extra vulnerable to damage aren't great against shields, huge and it's clumsy (look up rail fanning). But, rails are powerful, especially at long range. If you can manage to get it to stay away from everything but emp you could have a very fun impact impactful craft. Also one of the more fun vessels to build imo.

A railgun artillery ship that uses a tractor beam to keep enemies from getting too close. Or a composite ion beam ship. Or maybe one of those diagonal ships with stacked shields.

Alternating fire is worse if you are locking for speed bcs it stuns the crew twice before reloading instead of once

They actually gave Tractor Beams a massive 100% buff in the Steam Release (25000 Kilonewton push/pull strength to 50000 kilonewtons. Yup, thrust in this game is measured in Newtons, which is super nerdy and I love it) together with the engines that also got a 100% buff (Because how much larger the systems are in the new game, and to make the game more snappy and less grindy), but the Tractor Beams were the ones to utilize their huge upgrade the best. They also got a huge power consumption increase to balance it out, though. Anyways, glad to see you having a blast with the improved TBs. *7:05* Also no. There is no such thing as Solar gravity. That stupid cargo ship you for some reason couldn't notice was pushing it inside.

The Wrath being a dedicated brawler/vanguard with either an EMP support, or a railgun artillery ship that is just ONE BIG RAILGUN doing potshots and using the Wrath as a spotter, could both be fun.

Reminds me of the shenanigans you could do in Starfleet Battles. Tractor beams are awesome when leveraged correctly.

A rail gun, missile ship combo sounds amazing. Though missiles do take up a lot of space. They could stay at a distance, providing support and flanking for the M. Wrath.

Lathland, I think what you should do it missile ship. My reasoning is the following A.) you love missiles B.) you will be able to put the missile launchers anywhere on the ship and they can be mostly protected C.) you can choose to either go with a swarm of missiles (HE/EMP/Nuke) to overwhelm point defences, or a combination of the three types. D.) you will be able to keep it possibly at range so you don't have to worry about taking damage

A pair of smaller extremely mobile ships capable of running circles around bigger targets. Some armour, lots of shields, emps and lasers.

I believe esthetic wise making your ships “wings” turn into a crescent shape with large cannons around it would be “cool”

Railgun artillery with some EMP support sounds good. And like others have said, manoeuvre heavy, let malal tank whilst it goes for the soft underbelly. Oh, and because you seemingly didn't notice: when disrupters hit the barrel of a railgun, they shut it down, preventing the railgun from firing so long as its under constant disrupter fire.

Perhaps for the second warship a support/artillery? - Something that can bombard from a range and supply ammo so you don't risk the forge when resupplying.

keep it coming lathrix This shit's dope

that intro got me

That arquebus was a great enemy design

"Greetings! All of you *subtle spell for summoning Cuthulu* and welcome back to Cosmoteer!"

I feel like a super slow, super tanky, and obscenely armed ship with built-in scrapping and refining abilities would be fun.

something I plan on making if I get the game, is a do-all scrapper. Basically, its entire thing is disable ships from a safe distance, then move so the ship/asteroid is within jaws lined with lasers and completely gut them

Two spinal mounted rails with a sensor for the snipes. Either way, stay awesome, hope you enjoy your new office.

Thanks! 👍

I'd love to see a long range, and fast ship. In naval history when the Dreadnought class ship came out someone said "it made every other ship obsolete" Basically it had longer range and was faster than any other ship, meaning it could hit anything and was never in danger of being hit itself.

Hey lathrix the way that railguns are made reminds me of reassembly, and that one faction that you can make custom weapons.