[quote=@Mihndar] The thing about this though is that amusingly everyone is forgetting the reason why people don't use airships for war (unless that is intentional): You fire a cannon or a rocket at it, it pops, and your entire massive machine that you spent a billion dollars on falls out of the sky because there's no effective way to repair the breach and you can't put enough armor on it without weighing it down too much to move. You make the balloon bigger, you have to add more armor and you don't escape the same problem. Airships should not be heavily armed for the simple reason that the more stuff you put on it, the more you lose when it gets destroyed. And how on earth could an airship support both an airstrip long enough to take off of and *checks character tab* 300 planes? Just seems a tad too unrealistic to me. [/quote]You are pretty badly informed on this front. No, airships were pretty much the tanks of air combat during WW2. You could pretty much put the ship full of holes and it could still get back safely to home. Things were complicated further because airships were capable of far higher altitudes than aircraft so any kind of interception on them was running with rather low hit probability. Things only turned around by the invention of incrediary projectiles as it ignited the hydrogen by some dozens of shots and then the airship blew up in a blazing glory. We have a noncombustible gas which weighs only half of hydrogen (somehow...) so incrediary projectiles aren't a concern. And as I said, gas leaks are otherwise are too slow to be such a big problem. I think you are forgetting that the main point of these airships to be filled with gas at standard pressure. You only make the ship heavier if you add pressure to the chambers which is definetly not the point. On the other hand it's true that no matter what an airship would not be able to carry as much stuff as a naval ship does. Airhips have fairly strict weight limitations and you can't really armor them because they have such a huge surface area. Then again, we have mechs and other fantastical elements. I think it's better if we take everything with a grain of salt.