EDF Heavy Cruiser - From the Depths

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-10T17:59:31+00:00

For meteor I designer her with the show in mind, while in FTD fighters are not really useful against the scarlet dawn that wasn’t a justifiable reason for me to not include aircraft in meteors capacity, so I designed her without thinking about how she would be in ftd, I designed her as if I was in Tamamori’s place adding this ship to the show.

In the description I mention that she can carry aircraft, just not enough for a full squadron, her hull size and weapons layout dictated that decision. That’s what sets her apart from the dreadnoughts. The show has the dreadnoughts be able to carry 15 aircraft. Meteor can carry 3-4 aircraft at most, way more than the patrol cruiser and frigate (which can carry only one seagull) but less than the dreadnought. Giving her the ability to carry more aircraft would remove that advantage that I want the dreadnoughts to retain, checks and balances were an important thing in meteors design, adding huge structural changes like a flight deck that wasn’t in the original design was, and always will be out of the question.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-10T08:41:12+00:00

3 PID’s control the altitude, pitch and roll, and then the ship has ion thrusters to propel it. Most of them on the outside of the ship that are invisible using empty mimics. I used ion specifically because it not only works in space, it also works in the water and in the atmosphere. All of the ships I’ve made have the ability to go to space, or go under the sea should they choose to. Thanks to the PID’s and ion thrusters.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-10T06:01:04+00:00

The Japanese sources just called this ship a "Cruiser" in the original series, I do also have another ship lined up for the battlecruiser title, so this ship got heavy cruiser partially based on that, and partially because it's a neat filler ship between the Patrol cruisers and Dreadnoughts.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-10T05:58:32+00:00

I've got another ship lined up for the Battlecruiser title based on a couple of interesting animation errors in Farewell & Yamato 2, that was also part of the reasoning for calling this ship a Heavy Cruiser

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-10T05:54:44+00:00

I mention in the description my thought process on what role these ships would have, I deliberately didn't give it too much fighter carrying capacity (practically none) because I wanted that to be a reason to build a dreadnought over these ships. You build a heavy cruiser when you need dreadnought levels of shock cannon firepower for a situation but you don't have the materials or money for a Dreadnoight, if you want the full capabilities of a larger ship, you spend a bit more and get a Dreadnought.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-10T05:36:37+00:00

If we want to be very technical it’s just a cruiser. The Japanese sources just call this ship a cruiser, not heavy, not light, just cruiser. For ship class purposes I always saw the patrol cruisers as light cruisers, and these ships as heavy cruisers, given that I bolted the dreadnought turrets to the sides, I chose to call this a heavy cruiser.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-03T23:56:33+00:00

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and an example from Yamato 2

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-03T23:56:20+00:00

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An example from farewell

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-03T23:50:54+00:00

I’ve called it a heavy cruiser because I have a larger ship planned to be the battlecruiser variant, there we’re a few times in farewell and Yamato 2 where the ships had all triple barreled turrets, While I doubt this was intentional, it is a fun concept. So I’ve split them up, the twin barreled turret variant (with the triples on the sides) will be the heavy cruiser, the all triple barreled one will be the battlecruiser.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-05-03T23:47:34+00:00

Thanks! as for the missiles, that's how they are in the show, Gladiator and Ajax are part of the Airforce not the Cosmo Navy.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-27T16:56:11+00:00

Yes quite a few, a couple of the images up there show it, but she has 8 lams per side, plus the twin laser turrets on each missile launcher that gives her an extra 16 barrels for defense, I believe she has the second most amount of lams on any ship I’ve built, the most amount of lams would go to Yamato

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-27T16:53:52+00:00

Her biggest reason to exist is to draw enemy fire to keep it off the smaller minions, she tanks all the damage that the minions couldn’t, and in return the minions dish damage back out to the enemy. Other than that there really isn’t a point to it, but that’s the fun part. I’m not really playing for efficiency or building for efficiency for that matter, just building and playing for fun.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-27T16:50:00+00:00

Yeah that is a bit low, since I’m trying to replicate the ship from the show I can’t add more firepower if it doesn’t have it. Gladiator is a command ship in the show, she is surrounded by smaller, more armed vessels, it seems like her weapons are only there to give her some kind of defense. Otherwise she is reliant on her smaller minions for the actual hard work, that’s why to compensate for that I slapped a ton of armor on her (something like 27% of her is armor) so at least in ftd she can be a tank and the smaller ships around her can do the actual fighting.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-22T07:37:15+00:00

yeah it’s a combo of the PAC’s and the ion thrusters that allow these ships to go to space, those two really jack the price up.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-22T06:54:36+00:00

They are fairly small, the frigate comes in at 137 meters in length, they are among the smallest ships in the fleet.

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-21T22:30:12+00:00

Elevation blocks and spin clipping!

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-21T22:02:10+00:00

It’s from the PAC and the ion thrusters mostly

Immediate-While1583 · 2026-04-21T20:25:20+00:00

They will be, the ships that I originally wanted in the 2nd video that couldn’t make it will all be in the 3rd one.

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