Highfleet - Mosquito 

Who would have thought that giant battleship sized rocket propelled skyscrapers would be less practical than a small litte craft.

"The lightning is too slow." "But it's the fastest ship in the entire vanilla roster-" " *Did I stutter ?* "

A: So how many Gs do you want on your pilots? B: Yes!

enemy: Loads proximity fuse

This capitalized so much on the ability to hit and run. I messed with adding corners on the sides or just general variation for extra thruster space for starters and ex is you can get these things to cost like just over 5k with a 130mm but they’ll go literally 1500kph+. You can give the enemy a head start on shooting and you’ll still be out of the way by a mile then come back 1 second later and thunk em in the weak spot. Imagine being clapped by the mosquito instead. Be warned that this means the screen will be blacked out even more than a lightning.

The mechanical sounds of this game are so immersive and mesmerizing. It's nice to hear.

I been trying to make a balance fleet with small fast maneuverable ships with a big gun ... Now you helped me with my design. I got my fuel tankers and support ships design perfect yet small fast interceptors can round off my fleet

I just slapped three extra engines, ablative armor, and an extra gun on a lightning and called it a day. I called it "fat lightning." Has one higher thrust to weight than the standard lightning with more firepower and survivability. An MVP until lategame for me. Usually doesn't die until hit by a cruise missile in unfortunate accidents. I love how small this thing is though. Really pushes the limits of minimalist design.

Nice job. The Highfleet equivalent of a CQC expert.

I hate how all the best ship designs that people have come up with no longer work ever since the update.

Behold the newborn child of a Lighting, how adorable!

That's a sick little ship you got here. And you're helluva pilot!

Always a pain when the APS fires at a missile you dodged.

Thanks! Would love to see more of your gameplay and ship designs!

How to make one unfortunate academic novice to fall unconcious.

need a tanc a lelek, kickstart my heart mashup for this fighter jet of a ship.

Always launch smol ship first to make enemy spend all of their missiles. My favorite tip.

You CAN land this thing, it's just difficult.

the correct way to play this thing is to constantly be blacking out

I find the issue with this game is that smaller more manoeuvrable craft struggle when the air is just filled with flying steel from the multiple attackers you will always face. It's fine dodging shots when you only have to concentrate on 1 enemy telegraphing their attacks. When you have 3 or 4, some firing clouds of 37mm, some letting loose salvoes of proximity shells which are almost unavoidable without constant G lock or huge fuel consumption, and your missile lock alarm has been beeping non stop since the beginning of combat from the 2 missile frigates out of view taking it in turns to take shots at you, then the small craft just run out fuel from the constant jinking and dodging lest they get deleted by 1 or 2 impacts. I feel the game is certainly balanced towards bigger craft with heavy armour and overwhelming fire-power smacking down enemies rapidly while warding off 1 or 2 salvoes with the heavy plating that let's them tank a few combat rounds before repairs at the next shipyard. The small ships just get overwhelmed. The small ships would be better in large numbers. Cheap. Fast. Able to close distance. Like the Japanese Zero. Or the Sherman Tank and win the war of attrition. But when your numbers are artificially capped at one at a time, then the small ship feels like challenge mode rather than a viable strategy in practice.

Veteran lightning pilot : "dear god"

Not bad, really not bad. Inded this gave me an inspiration and as part of a similar design approach I created 2 new ships, each costing less than 4000 (the cheapest one only costing 3000!), so a real bargain indeed. (then again they are good for little else than to intercept and suprise attack weaker garrisons XD ) But hey, you get what you pay for :)

Prox. fuse shells will melt this thing, unfortunately.

800 ton mosquito. dangerous guy.

Very fun to play, thank you!

Now imagine whole fleet made up only of these things.

Pair this as a 57mm Incendiary + a tanky boi and watch small ships burn to ashes

I had built a ship with 6 NK25s and 4 molots with mo armor and discovered what you did with the dodging capability, I hadn't thought about downsizing it though

Ah, yes. The vomit comet

Very cool, you managed to make a lightning but even more maneuverable, the king of hit and run, this thing has to get absolutely shredded by prox fuse tho

I would crash to the ground every time if I were to pilot this thing. You're not bad at all lol

Holy smokes that little bastard ZIPS

You missed the perfect oppertunity to have The Doors - The Mosquito as music in this video

your going so fast your pilot fades out every 2 seconds

you learn quickly that not every shot is worth dodging, and that's why armor exists. this is a great skirmish tool though if u wanna scout and have skills like OP.

what's the top speed of this thing

Who would win? The Dreadnaught or the Mosquito?

That drill noise would get old really quick

Float like butterfly, sting like bee.

У меня в high fleet есть одна проблема: я не могу сделать средний проект. Я могу сделать лёгкий корвет или тяжёлый линкор/дредноут/Альфа титан (особенно Альфа титаны у меня получаются), но сделать что-то типа Т-34-85 от мира high fleet - не выходит. Сделаешь такой проект, пожалуйста?

Why fuel 100?

this ship is great but i think it lack a purpose that the lighting already fill, but if you make it flatter(reduce radar signature) and equip fabs on them instead of ADs i think it could make great base raider. or zenth for night time merchant interceptions.

I would’ve totally went with the D-80, I think it’s better in general for small ships like this for hit and run.

3:04 you almost got him with the missile lol

Now take out a Archangel with it

how many seconds it can fly in non-editor fight?)

Would this be successful at causing enemy ships to waste their fuel trying to swat the mosquito? You wouldn't need to even destroy any ships, just survive long enough for them to run out of fuel and crash into the ground?

that's nice and all but where is the landing gear?

you can name it PassOut cos you will have to dispose the pilot after each flight :D

Highfleet 2 better have High-G training.

the Pilot : im don't know how fast im, im fly fast fook BOYiiiiii LOl

Aptly named the Mosquito - pesky little thing that won't leave you alone. I hope they paid the crew extra for manning this ship... repeatedly blacking out because of the high g forces can't be pleasant.

touch a control key = pilot knockout

130 mm radio ammo:

Your pilot must hate you so much for making him flying this blackout inducing machine.

Really bad design if against mid sized ships using Flak and even worse if a hit from a high caliber hits you. Fuel economy is bad and so is the flight stability. Recommend using reinforced hulls to tank shots from pea shooters and Flak and making ship more stable so you can get close to use AP Ammo without missing.

you are a cat playing with your food :-)

Is that an addon for crosshair? :)

put a d80 with fuse shells OP

It has no gear tho?

Montei uma igual e ela fica com 8.6 de thrust weight e 495km/h 😢

I have to design a strike craft. Mine will be called "Strelka" or maybe "Fulcrum"... 🤔 Something that reminds Russian fighter jets.

Стоп а в чём смысл?

The amount of time your first officer got blacked, he might just be better of porn acting

it cute

maybe put molot instead

Tbh not a good ship 10580 for 1 gun, also very frail, 1 mistake and he is gone. Even default lightning is much better. And can dodge everything too.

It should be made entirely out of wood as well...if you get what I mean.

800 km/h is too slow for interception and too much for silent raids.

Black screen simulator

Dangerous and really fucking annoying. Oooh we’re so fucked if the devs find this ship

No static thrusters, only one gun. No armor or spaced hull and still 10k. 37mm and prox. Fuse is a death sentence. Fun little exercise but not practical, fuel economy is terrible and the armament is only good against early garrisons. The bog standard lightning is much better.

Боже какой же авто кривой или бухуй хз. Столько мазать да и смысл ставить 100тку а не 130?

This ship is hot garbage, even on native update. Firepower is laughable; to have any meaningfull damage, AK-100 needs fo be at least paired, and efficiency is reached only at around 4-5. An argument can be made for D-80, but this is more of a testament of how busted 130mm is in this game. Palash on such a small & fast ship is a waste of space, as the main threat for it is prox fuse & small caliber fire (esp. 57mm), which Palash ignores. Even worse, in campaign, Palash is an expensive & hard to get module, and I think you lost one even in the first fight. Combat time doesn't show up in ship designer before 1.14, but on my recreation of it in 1.15 it had 95 sec of combat time; for such underarmed ship this is catastrophic; it will survive most battles, but won't have enough time to win them. Finally, in-designer balancing does not allow to properly test that ship for what campaing might throw at it, refusing to put it against anything bigger that low- to mid-sized garrison. Late game, with Archangel + 2 random frigates combo filters out bad designs HARD. Of course, anything can be mitigated by strategic support (strat missiles + planes), but with that mindset even 4x4 2-thruster brick will be enough. I would instead recommend to focus on partially armored heavy corvette/frigate with 2-3 AK/D-80 & 300+ (or 450+ on older updates) speed, with at least 180 sec of combat time.

Those sound effects are super low budget

Нет смысла в таких кораблях. Весь бой в черном экране просидишь. Давно придумали за вас уже Молнию