Sparrow Fighter: Space Engineers One Episode Build (1EB) 

Yup, should be easy to print up a bunch of these, and I think they're pretty well balanced for what we'll be doing.

Good luck and have fun! The game is endless hours of entertainment if you enjoy building things. Take it at your own pace and don't worry too much about what/how others build or say you should. As long as you're having fun, you're doing it right.

Thanks, adding some plates isn't a bad idea, I'll look into it.

Thanks, it really tucks them away nicely. Took me forever to get a wing shape I liked though.

XD didn't even think of that. Might have to change the name.

I've found that I usually swap the gatlings for autocannons in my survival playthroughs. They seem to work better for me against most targets.

Interesting, what happens if they target lock you?

@@ShiftyshadowTV im not that high tec my friend, setting off a smoke bomb by remote control is as far as my brain can do.self taught.

mine are real drones

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Workshop version of this ship has been updated a few times, nothing major.

Nice. Everyone has things they're good, and bad, at. Large small-grid ships are some of my favorite.

I've used it a bit in survival, the connector and cockpit hold enough ammo to last through most fights. The ship tends to get shot down (or shoot down its target) before I run out.

I'm planning to put together a shipbuilding basics video, it's always a tad confusing for new players and it's very easy to overcomplicate the problem.

We did quite a few 1v1 dogfights with it and found that (with good flying) it could run out of ammunition before you shot each other down. It's hard to score a lot of critical hits because the front is rather tanky and you're almost always facing each other. In large group battles where you could get surrounded it was better. Many of the ships were downed because someone crashed into the ground while trying to shake multiple followers, or while chasing (which was funny). To reduce the likelihood of running out of ammo before being shot down we changed all the gatlings to autocannons. This meant you need to hit the same spot less often to break blocks, which resulted in more people being shot down. It reduces your overall firing time though, so it changed the strategy from firing constantly to only when you're pretty sure you will score hits. Overall a healthy change. The auto cannons are also much more satisfying to listen to. The only downside is that the two positioned in front of the cockpit obscure your view while firing if you're in first person.

This build also inspired entire set of small combat ships. Here they are: (The Raven is my favorite.) steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2932233902

@@ShiftyshadowTV from what I've seen auto cannons seem much more effective against lightly armored targets. That makes sense.

Very true.

If you mean the mirroring, and you're paying on PC, N and M are the hotkeys to toggle it on and off, and set the planes you want to mirror across.

I have a version that uses autocannons instead of gatlings, but I've found that having 3+ different types of guns is less fun for me, and less functional.

@@ShiftyshadowTV makes sense, whatever works best for you of course. I personally liked the way those different weapon systems looked. But functionality is important! Lol.

Not sure what you mean, but probably.