Without the artificial constraints on ship geometry imposed by the impeller wedge (which we don't have; omnidirectional shields are the norm in this setting), you have a bit more flexibility in arming your ships. There's no reason not to have weapons that fire "up" and "down" through the hull. Or, for that matter, disposable box launchers on the dorsal and ventral surfaces that fired sideways (in the Honorverse the Andermanis actually did this).Dave wrote:*grumbles* I was starting to write my first actual space combat scene when I realized my wiki descriptions, first draft and ship art style (Honorverse) don't match up (i.e. Honorverse ships don't have disposable box launchers strapped to the outside of the hull). I'm going to have to rethink my ship descriptions before I can write up the post. (It won't change the OOB, just the fluff.)
One thing to remember is that ships built to the Honorverse scale are big; structural features less than fifty to a hundred meters across will be totally invisible on something the size of a superdreadnought, and can be safely handwaved.
So let your wiki descriptions and first draft take precedence over the pictures you can find online. Unless you're good enough to do your own 3D modeling (like Darkevilme), the best you can hope for is to find ships that roughly match your design concept.
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