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Squidslinger Gilder:
That is an idea. I'm just not sure if Muse is going to nerf mines or not. Right now they are literally a do everything weapon and I love them for it. Armor, disabling, flames...I'd love torpedoes to have this capability but mostly I want that piercing damage. Having a new weapon on medium mounts that does something different would be nice. So yeah, if it behaved like mines on impact, that would be awesome. I'd just wonder about balancing. But, with a slow fire rate, reload, and travel speed...ya know you got a point. Having that impact do everything damage on a torpedo would be sweet!

Machiavelliest:
An aerial unguided torpedo is a rocket. An aerial guided torpedo is a missile (barring an in-depth technical discussion).  We're basically talking about a bigger Artemis, aren't we?

Squidslinger Gilder:
Then just put a propeller on it if your stuck on that. Gah, you technical freaks and your refusal to ignore logic! 1...it needs to be big. 2...it needs to have a contrail when it fires so it looks cool. 3...it needs to make a large enough impact that captains will freak out and attempt to either shoot it down or evade. 4...Torpedo sounds a heck of a lot better than another plain rocket. 5...the Guns world doesn't make much sense anyways.

Think about the lore. WWI era did have torpedoes so what happens to all of them in this world? Get turned into sky torpedoes! The device could come from Arashi league or Anglean areas. Like someone took a big submarine torpedo, and converted it for aerial use. So its big, its long, slow traveling, and it packs a punch!

HamsterIV:
Some what related to the guidance concept: What if the torpedo was guided by flares? If there are no flares in the air the torpedo flies strait. If there is one flare in the air within a 30 degree cone of the torpedo's forward vector, the torpedo will turn towards the flare. If there are multiple flares the torpedo turns towards the one most recently shot (hottest). This could lead to some interesting tactics like having a squid paint a target for a brace of torpedo's from a galleon, or shooting flares to distract a torpedo if it is inbound.

Squidslinger Gilder:
But would heatseekers really fit in with the world? From what we've seen I'd say likely no. Why I was thinkin if there was a tracking capability, have them be magnetic. That would be a neat idea tho if they were combined with flares. You would suddenly have an all new purpose and reason for having flares.

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