One of my standard SFB rants is "The FED BB sucks". It's a DNG saucer tacked into a rear hull where everything needed make it a BB is sort of tossed in. I just don't like it. About 10 years ago, a friend said, "Well, can you do better?" This is the result. It wasn't designed to be superior in combat (I actually think the ship loses a little). It's a "remix" of the ADB's battleship to make it more Fed-like. I eliminate the center hull entirely, slitting it up between saucer and secondary hull and give the BB its own saucer for the occasion rather than recycling the DNG saucer. The center-hull should give the ADB's version more durability but it just isn't the way the Feds do business if their cruisers and dreadnoughts are any judge.
My first attempt at the Fed BB was the best job I ever did using Visio 2.0. I'm kinda proud of it. It's also one of my first attempts at producing a SSD using picture editing tools. It post-dates my "Class of 1991" battleships by about a year.
This ship is one of my all-time faves. My take on a Romulan battleship. The original, embarrassingly bad SSD was made with Visio 2.0. I called it the "Megahawk" until that name got used in Module R7.
When the Romulans learned about the Klingon B-10, they naturally considered building a battleship of their own. About a year before Operation Remus crippled the Romulan economy, a young Romulan engineer electrified the Praetor's court with a battleship the Romulans might actually be able to build. The battleship would be built from major portions of two SparrowHawk and one SkyHawk hull, incorporating modules from both. The hull used 8 standard Hawk engines instead of larger engines. The Romulans could accelerate production of the first one by selectively cutting and welding current hull construction. Simulations showed that the dynamic balance caused by having 8 engines excluded many pods and gave the ship HET problems, but for the small cadre of admirals who desperately wanted a battleship of their own, these defects were considered acceptable. Operation Remus destroyed any real hope of building the Maxihawk, which was slim to begin with.
The MaxiHawk could only take A, B, E or K SparrowHawk pods and A, B, E, or F Skyhawk Modules. It can use those modules in any combination.
The original paper-and-glue-stick version of this design is one of my "Class of 1991" battleship designs.
With the loss of the heavy shipyards on Remus, Romulan attention turned to producing a modular dreadnought. The admirals who championed the Maxihawk commissioned plans for a dreadnought version and submitted it for approval. It produced enough buzz to be given the Federation reporting name, "Sun Hawk." The SunHawk made every cut but the final one, ultimately losing to the DemonHawk.
Like the MaxiHawk, the SunHawk could only take A, B, E or K SparrowHawk pods and A, B, E, or F Skyhawk Modules. It can use those modules in any combination.
With the Kzinti, I went back to Kzinti basics. Lots and lots of drones and plenty of P-3. The ship was so big, I figured I could bypass C-rack technology and install 12 B-racks, assuring it of being able to launch it's full control rating of drones every turn without sweating much. I went light on the P-1s and gave it a number of P-3s. Combined with its 4 ADDs, it's a hard target for enemy drones even before you wrap a fleet around it.
The original paper-and-glue-stick version of this design is one of my "Class of 1991" battleship designs. It is also the most-revised. I had a revision planned for the Kzinti planned back in my glue-stick days but it was never completed. This critter is a second revision on top of the previous one.
My original plan called for splicing a 4th bubble onto a DN hull but I quickly realized the hull would be too long for the SSD page so I built a new class of "heavy bubble" designs. The 3-bubble DN-equivalent was my BB. Throttling back to 2-bubbles produced a nifty DN as well (below). I guess I could pull a BCH out of a 1-bubble version but I've never tried.
The original paper-and-glue-stick version of this design is one of my "Class of 1991" battleship designs. It was messiest design I made owing to all the individual boxes I had to glue onto the SSD.
This is to my Gorn BB what the regular Gorn BC is to the regular Gorn DN..
I built a glue-stick version of this design. It's a part of the "Class of 1991" even though it's not a BB. When I finished the Gorn DN, this design was extremely obvious. The SunHawk was inspired by remembering this ship while building the Maxihawk.
Intended as the result of three Tholian CWs welded together, This Tholian "Christmas Tree" BB is sadly unworkable. The Tholian backstory doesn't allow for more than two, maybe three hull pieces to be welded together. This BB would require six pieces and something like nine welds.
At least.
Looks great though, doesn't it?
The original paper-and-glue-stick version of this design is one of my "Class of 1991" battleship designs.
A classic example of my "back to the cruiser" philosophy. It's an overseer that abused the crap out of steroids. The Hydran DN already sported a full squadron of fighters so 18 only seemed right for the battleship. It's technically a casual PF tender, though it does carry 4 PFs, but it's about the easiest SCS conversion you could ask for.
The original paper-and-glue-stick version of this design is one of my "Class of 1991" battleship designs.
This is the original that kicked all the others off and still one of my favorites. Adding the second center-section came so effortlessly to the SSD and required very little re-labeling. Its width made it a little awkward to put on an electronic SSD, but I managed to rearrange everything. It came out surprisingly close to the ADB's Lyran BB as well. Makes you wonder if they didn't start from the same premise I did, just evolved in a different direction.
The original paper-and-glue-stick version of this design is one of my "Class of 1991" battleship designs.
I forgot to do an ISC BB for the Class of 1991. I built a glue-stick version of this design several years later. I'm not 100% happy with it. Both versions are a little boxy and a little awkward. Aesthetically, the ADB version is better. The only difference that matters is that I put six PPDs on mine and the ADB put four PPDs and two S-torps on theirs. the D-torps, any other differences aren't that big a deal.
The Frax BB is light on the hull. I'm not sure why, but it has about 60-70% of the hull that other BBs have. Perhaps because it's all center-hull. Nevertheless, I decided to correct it. My Frax BB is otherwise unchanged from the ADB's design.
All my other BBs use a image of the same dimensions as a tournament cruiser SSD. The stuff didn't quite fit. I guess I should try to reformat one day. Maybe I should do a full remix, do things like reduce its P-1 count by 3 (19 P-1's guys?!?)
While I noticed the hull-oddity during my glue-stick days, I never built a corrected SSD because I didn't have an easy ability to expand the Frax hull-form to add the hull.
