Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander – Competitive Ship List

Here you can find full list of competitive ships with pictures and descriptions.

List of Competitive Ships

Thrust Layouts

• Orbital thrust
  • All forward thrust, can be used to orbit the opponent or to ram them.
  • Most efficient cost/speed

• Avoider thrust/fastwall thrust
  • Allows for great maneuverability

• There are many other ways to lay out thrust, but none are as common as these.

Ship Types

• Ions
  • Ion rammer/orbiter
    • All or most forward thrust, concentrated beam in center
    • Typically small shields

• Ion Cruiser/Barge
  • Forward and backward thrust
  • Can be large shields or small
  • Ions converge much farther away from the ship

• Ion Burst
  • Not plausible in pvp, just added it in because it’s cool
  • Stores up energy in a constant feedback loop, then discharges and deals massive damage
  • Could be ion cruiser, rammer, or kiter

• Ion Kiter
  • Has fast backward thrust
  • Constantly moves backwards to avoid getting in a close fight with the enemy

• Tractor Beam Ion, or TB Ion
  • Typically rammer or cruiser
  • Uses Tractor Beams (TBs) to push enemy and allow for extra movement

Railfans

• Railfan
  • Thick armor to stay alive
  • Typically 6-8 accelerator rails for maximum range
  • Often spins to spread-out damage (useless against rails) and prevent it from being ram-locked

• Tractor Beam Rail, or TB Rail
  • Uses tractor beams to flip enemy
  • Can use very different thrust setups

• Railkite
  • Uses backwards thrust to stay away from enemies
  • Can have mines, EMPs, nukes, and point defense as complements to the rails

• Rail Orbiter
  • All forward thrust utilized to position around opponents and hit critical spots
  • Much stronger in team games than 1v1s

• Alpha Rail Wall
  • Not very popular
  • Utilizes a lot of rails without the ability to sustain, hopes to kill the opponent within the first few shots

• Mobile Spinner Fort/MSF
  • Spins in a circle to spread damage evenly through armor
  • Can have a core inside that isn’t attached which allows it to move in different directions
  • Other variants that use nukes instead of rails and large shields instead of armor

• Rail Orbital Wall
  • Much like a rail orbiter, but a wall.

Deck Cannons

• Deck Cannon Orbiter/Rammer
  • Fast, can get around to your back or side and destroy it. Also good in a head on match.
  • Typically shielded

• Deck Cannon Brick/Orbiter/Rammer
  • Slow, relies on armor to stay alive
  • Lots of armor

Missiles

• Missile Orbiter
  • Orbits enemy
  • Can have shields

• Missile kiter
  • Utilizes back thrust to stay away from enemy
  • Can have a lot of point defense to stop rails and missiles

• Missile Barge
  • Uses large amount of armor in the front to stay alive
  • Some variants can also kite
  • Can have other armament

Nukes

• Nuke Orbiter
  • Orbits enemy or makes runs at enemy
  • Targeting nukes to hit enemy is hard

• Nuke Avoider/Fastwall
  • Utilizes avoider thrust to line up nukes in a straight line

• Nuke Barge
  • Uses heavy armor tip to soak up damage

Laser Walls

• Fastwall/Avoider
  • Uses nimble thrusters to dodge enemy projectiles while dealing damage
  • Can also have cannons
  • Often mixes in disruptors to break shields

• Orbital Fastwall
  • Uses super fast forward thrust to catch up with kiters and to stick itself to a weak part of an enemy ship
  • Can have other armaments, often disruptors to break shields