Taking ideas from modern and past destroyers this idea will be more about Finding a way to add destroyers into the game as a balanced ship rather than Just throwing the idea at you.
So lets start with destroyers in the past.
in the past destroyers were a type of escort ship they didn’t see much battle unless the fleet they were escorting came under attack But all of that changed with the invention of SONAR,
After the invention of SONAR Destroyers became more of a Submarine hunter ship looking for submarines and dropping depth charges on them from above to destroy them, they were also small vessels that could also destroy much bigger ships with its torpedo Tubes.
looking at destroyers from the past gives me 2 ideas for the destroyer A stealth detection device similar to how destroyers of the past used SONAR and A powerful weapon of some kind.
NOW lets see what inspiration we can get from Modern destroyers.
Modern destroyers JUST LIKE old ones have Sonar for detecting submarines are much bigger than the old destroyers and are ships used as long range fire support in battles with there main weapons being Missiles. modern day destroyers May have lots of firepower in the form of missiles BUT its only defence from fighters is it’s Single Deck gun.
Ok I think we have enough information to make a balanced destroyer, taking into account the other ship classes
I think the Destroyer should have A sonar type Module that can detect ships using stealth,
for it’s weapons it should have 4 Missile silos as its main weapon (taken from the fact that destroyers past and present have used a special Long range weapon either torpedo’s or missiles) and 1 Deck gun (either plasma, railgun or laser)
this will give it a good long range attack against any ship but will make it weak when it is reloading missiles
so now that the ship has a very big weakness except for it being Bigger and slower than a frigate (it always has a weakness to any nearby fighters since it only has 1 Turreted gun and it has a weakness to every ship when reloading since then it will only have 1 gun left to defend itself)
Although the destroyer is bigger and has more hull than the other ships so could end up being overpowered if done wrong, I have thought this through Taking inspiration from destroyers past and present to bring the Most BALANCED and FAIR way for these ships to be added to the game.
So if destroyers are ever added to the game and you want them to be balanced point the devs to this post
