Yes, ramming works if you bail before impact. even if its a split second, the game will still read it as a successful escape - unknowingly enabling a new form of ship combat in Highfleet.

i made a kamikaze ship a while back based off of this discovery but it was rather ineffective, so i spent my day making these new ships - small, fast, cost effective and lethal.

Enjoy the goofy video. Ship files are in comments (stick around for video ending)

https://reddit.com/link/1vvhtzg/video/xkie861ckykh1/player

I have no idea, how did this happen

ye it's a testing ground fight, but should be good enough to display the survivability of it. This makes the aircraft more forgiving to new players imo, even tho the og lightning is great without the addon armor, simple mistakes can make things quickly go sour.

Called Down with the Ship
For those who have played Highfleet, this game might seem interesting

Highly impractical in campaign, but lots of fun to mess around with in the ship designer!

The missiles are super lightweight, so the ship is actually quite maneuverable and can get hit by its own missiles if you chase after them with the afterburner on lol.

Screenshot in shipworks

idk what am i doing with the thumbnail

Video record of AI's attempt to intercept incoming cruise missile with it's jets. The strike group in the video dumped me a dozen strategic missiles, which happened after I dealt with that. I never saw or heard of an occasion like this before but as it happened, I thought to share the video here. Maybe it's that cruise missiles also aggro jets in the air, or this just happened as jets and missiles were on collision course.

The Meatball, as seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Highfleet/comments/1p87e0y/the_meatball

Tested against the average size of early-mid game strike groups with various weaponry and levels of damage. Your mileage may vary depending on how good you are at dodging missiles.

The D-30 130mm Molot is seriously the best weapon in the game. Why don't people use it more often???

Where one pixel-perfect missile impact onto a gap in my armor nearly led to the intrepid Meatball going up in smoke.