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CSG Menno Ter Braak

This blueprint was built in and for a modded Oldcampaign beta installation. Functionality in current is likely to be severely impeded. The mods used can all be found in this collection: Carolus mod projects

Build date: August 2025

After completing work on the Vittorio Veneto earlier this year, I felt like employing the things I'd learned during its construction in the building of a new ship. The intention was to create a large warship (battlecruiser or battleship sized) that had the looks and feel of an early cold war missile (strike) cruiser conversion. The chief sources of inspiration were the ITS Garibaldi, the USS Little Rock, the USS Albany and ZrNLMS De Ruyter - with the later two ships shining through most clearly in the imposing vertical lines of the design.

This is my most meticulous design to date, with a mimic count likely in the mid hundreds. I will probably refrain from going as overboard in future designs.

My naming theme for larger warships is important thinkers, secular humanists, scientists and suffragettes from the low countries, and in keeping with this theme this blueprint has been named the Menno Ter Braak class, after a noted literary critic and essayist of the last century.

Performance wise, the ship has a primary armament consisting of 12 large missiles in three GMLS turrets (they are spinstacked two thick), with another large silo of vertical launch top attack missiles in the rear superstructure. These missile are a mix of laser-designated and remote guidance. The VLS missiles are a copy of the type found on the Kogelvis artillery submarine, since I found they answered quite well.

The secundary battery consists of 8 APS guns. 3 per side in the wings firing 3m 225mm shells at 60rpm, with a short downtime cycle. These turrets each fire a mix of Heat, Hesh and chemical shells. The two main guns in the forward turret fire 6m APHeat and APEMP rounds. All these guns have rail assistance. There are also two turrets, one on each wing, firing from the same potent offensive laser setup. A quadruple torpedo launcher and GMLS turret (again, spinstacked) on each side round out the armament.

for defense, there is universal str 7 reflect shielding, smoke deployers, decoys in the highest masts, 4 max strength ECM suites, two short range laser CIWS turrets with dual AA function and 6 batteries of 16 small antimissiles. Hardkill antitorpedoes are installed in the keel. The ship has LAMS coverage on all sides.

Propulsion is provided by voidware propellor turbines, and the ship is powered by a large steam engine setup.

The cost per ship is 1,15 million RP in my current game setup, price might differ depending on if you manually modded out Drabas silly inflated prices for many functional blocks like I did.

If anyone who subscribes to this ship for use in current decides to retrofit it for full functionality in current they are free to upload that updated version of the vessel to the FtD workshop, so long as they give credit and link here in their description.