Ardent Seas blends modern naval combat with classical RTS gameplay, featuring Aliens, space lasers, and unholy amounts of missiles
With the Southern Coalition's ongoing expansion of their subsurface fleet, the Tenorran Defense Navy needed a ship better equipped to fight submarines than the old DDG-74s. The result of the Future Surface Defendant project is the DDG-221 Northstar-class of Guided Missile Destroyers.
The Northstar is powered by a pair of 40MW turbo-electric generators, burning liquid methane, providing enough power for all of its sensory systems, consisting of dual X- and S-band radars, an advanced sonar in the bow, and leaving enough power further increase the ship's fighting value in the future. Possible upgrades include a Railgun upgrade to the 5" ETC main gun, and replacing the RAM launchers with Lasers.
The DDG-221 is designed to work alongside Puffin-class anti-submarine warfare helicopters, engaging submarines with ASROCs and Torpedos, while the Puffins use dipping sonars and sonobuoys to provide targets to the fleet.
In comparison to the older DDG-74 class, the Northstar isn't armed quite as heavily against surface targets, having only two, instead of four "Lance" anti-ship missile batteries.
Armament:
1x 5" Electro-Thermal Chemical cannon, can be replaced by a 4" Railgun.
2x "Lance" Quad anti-ship missile launcher
1x 32-cell Vertical Launch System, firing anti-air/anti-surface multi-purpose missiles
1x 16-cell Vertical Launch System, firing anti-submarine missiles/ASROCs
2x Triple torpedo launchers (internal)
Defenses:
2x RAM Missile Interceptor Launcher
4x 35mm Remotely Operated Point Defense Cannons
4x Soft-kill Flare/Chaff countermeasure launcher
2x Noise-maker anti-torpedo countermeasure launchers (internal)
Complement:
Up to two Helicopters
Power/Propulsion:
2x 40MW class Turboelectric Generator
2x Electrically driven azimuth thruster
2x 5MW backup Turboelectric Generator
This is some incredible work.
Hey, if the TDN are practically done, does that mean we can have a demo, multiplyer or VS ai TDN VS TDN?
We're working on it. The Coalition is almost done, too.
Cool! any dates?
None yet, but we'll announce it publically when we do.