How To Efficiently Launch Warheads - Space Engineers 

Those big ones look like the CIS super tanks from the clone wars that they were producing at the second battle of Geonosis

I would definitely like to see a how to video on this.

this honestly seems like a realistic evolution in warfare. it starts out as a rag-tag last minute idea strapped to a normal rover and when it becomes more popular they turn to designs focused entirely on the concept which at first is heavy, bulky and inefficient but slowly becomes more streamlined until a compact and lightweight design that genuinely feels like modern military equipment compared to WW1

Here i am trying to reverse engineer this system and here is last stand just showing up with the documentation. But with the new grid ai blocks, the event controller, i can see this becoming a bit safer with less of a chance of exploding in the barrel. If X then arm.

Would like to see a Stark Industries Jericho Missile style cluster bomb missile

I could definitely see this as an artillery piece on Battleships or Battle Carriers for sieging enemy stations or orbital bombardment on ground targets. Even against other large capital ships with large profiles and lower maneuverability. It would certainly encourage the use of smaller screening ships (Corvettes, Frigates, Destroyers) or even fighter craft to protect battleships or installations from these warhead rounds. Lot's of interesting applications in combat ship design. Edit: You could even have bomber craft built with a version of this for delivering payloads at lose range if you wanted too. A compartment on the back with the bombs being fired straight down as you fly over maybe?

Artillery has always had to deal with an amazing number of variables. It's always funny to me when people say the Earth is flat, because if it was, artillery in World War One, wouldn't have worked. You have to correct for the coriolis effect, or you'll miss. Fantastic engineering, with the accuracy of real artillery for thematic effect too.

Idea to extend range: add a gyroscope that limits rotation and an atmospheric thruster set to max prop to the back of each warhead. Should work since batteries have a bit of charge when you build them.

Will this become a staple weapon in your severs? I can see this being an excellent siege weapon in space.

That is a very nice proof of concept, I'm thrilled to see how far the community can refine this. Awesome video as usual, I always particularly enjoy the science stuff.

Now that's proper artillery

I would like to see somebody propel a rover with this concept, you could probably get to 40+ almost instantly and could jump over walls, over canyons or just straight up into other rovers if things are getting salty

Be good to see more players interviewed about their designs! If you can get more players into your videos maybe you could also convince em to send you footage from the battles you do videos on, too, then you could have multiple shots to switch between (and do some overlap), so that we get a better idea of the battlefield and make those videos more action-packed.

aaaah it is finally here the mortar video

Is it possible to do with large grid warheads? Or they're too heavy?

The Community just keeps getting more advanced with every vehicle I am sincerely impressed!🤩

I like the design of first one. Looks a lot like Multi-Troop Transport unit.

Always up for learning more of you devious trick mate. [ Cheers to Sqwark for his help in the discord, onya ]

this is awesome, but I feel it can also be quite volatile if it detonates in the barrel, so I'm guessing this is a bit of risky firepower? my luck it'd just detonate in barrel

stuff like this is why i really want to see you do a cover of the grid ai blocks while the beta is active Arron

ah, i could use this to make some great artillery... if only i knew how to make things not look like a box. Ill figure it out eventually.

Should build one that fires multiple mortars one after another so you can spread them out (like an auto mortar)

Oh my! I can see doing this as a cluster munition in space against bases. Half the targets would be decoys and the other half warheads.

What if someone used a hinge to elevate the projectile differently to make the artillery shell hit lower on the merge block? Could that mean greater range. Or even adjustable range 🤔

Wow.. a real artillery.

A howto build vid including ready to use bps where we can experiment with would be great.

Ah man, using the guns to propel the warhead is such a good idea. I tried to make these using a rotor displacement gun and it always took up so much space

Thank you for video

Loved the video @LastStandGamers! Can't wait for the next video man! This looks like an Interesting idea to have Artillery in Space Engineers, But can you use an Autocannon to Save Space to Build Something like the American M7 105 millimeter Howitzer Motor Carriage (HMC) "Priest" or even the German Panzerhaubitze IV Hummel?

This could actually be very effective as a shotgun-close range weapon on ship v ship combat, it could absolutely wreak a ship

i actually build something simillar based of this idea. i managed to get a 1x1x12 "bullet" squeezed through a 1x1x12 barrel. its actually quiet accurate with that too and able to reload with any orientation of the gun.

Aron we need the toturial lol< and also is your server survival or creative?

Wow its exactly like cannons in scrap mechanik

It's weird how the projectiles to kind of wibble as the flew to the target. It's got to be a combination of SE physics and server ping. Really neat to watch and kind of unsettling at the same time.

@Splitsie, hopefully, he'll see this link. If not, can you share it with him, Aaron?

i’ve been trying to figure out mine layers for space and land. turning on sensor is my trouble

And then there are Clang Guns, which, using the power of subgrids, accelerate projectiles to a mach million. Probably better to do clang guns as anti-orbital weapons.

Imagine making one of these with a cluster shell

hmm I could see this as a flare launcher angainst the grid ai missiles

i dont think you would require an arty to launch them in space, slap on a Hydrogen tank and thruster and just launch them as a dumb fire torpedo. but for a game where there was no thrusters it was really inventive

We're having a problem where the artillery shell goes right through the projectile without imparting any momentum. Got any advice?

Terrifying!

Make it a revolver

So it's a rifle fired granade.

Wouldn't it be possible to use artificial gravity to launch warheads?

I made an x wing

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How does the artillery or assault cannon not destroy the projectile? What's going on there? Does it have something to do with proximity to the barrel?

I thought they'd go 2000+meters. 😔

What a waste of PCU 😂

Looks pretty clunky. Why doesnt the dev just give you some real artillery parts?