[quote=@Pepperm1nts]
As far as ideas go, it'd be cool to see anti-air airships. Basically small ships meant to fly under enemy airships and shoot the hell out of them. If an airship is harassing someone's position from really high up, a few of these anti-air ships could be deployed to fly up and shoot up at it (from underneath them). If the enemy ship gives chase, they could just fly back down, shooting up at it the whole way, and split up to make themselves harder targets.
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Wrote this 7 hours ago

"Ever the skeptics, the General staff questioned the cost effectiveness of a purely Elan based, pure flying ship. A hybrid airship/boat with a change of propellers (the engines cannot tolerate high RPMs, so a very large propeller is needed in the air) could travel by air or sea, land just about anywhere, and would have a longer range. This is the basis of the Falcon class, an interceptor/scout fleet defender designed to conserve Elan.

~Falcon Class Air Destroyer (40):
Displacement: 235 metric tons.
Armor: None
Vertical Propulsion: 34 meter diameter spherical rigid helium balloon.
Powerplant: Approx 3000 kW triple expansion steam engine.
Sea speed: 27 knots
Airspeed: Theoretically capable of insanely faster speeds, speeds of 33 knots are about the max unless in the middle of combat due to the intense windspeeds making walking on the deck difficult. When everyone is at batttlestations, sheltered from the winds, speeds of 60 knots are not unheard of.
Armament: 
~1 QF 12 pounder
~3 QF 6 pounder
~4 QF 1 pounder autocannon"