My new ship, Type 10 Defender.

[Wolff]

Feels good buying a new ship in Elite Dangerous and I’m pretty stoked with my new purchase, the Type 10 Defender. To save on some time I can drop in the power plant and PD from my Krait MK II in her and look forward to outfitting her with everything else. I’m glad I chose Li Young-Rue, I seem to be saving a lot on outfitting and buying ships with this Powerplay faction. Took only 15 jumps from Robigo to Pathan to buy this ship at 15% off. When I looked in Inara was the only place that was selling her for a discount and paid 106 mil. Kept with my Tactical grey like the rest of my ships and now to start going for more raw materials in the SRV. One thing I have to say, in VR this cockpit is huge!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613452178
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613452521
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613452760


Hope to make a lot of space cheddar with her.

[Cast Out Devil]

Gives off Aliens UD-4 drop ship vibes, which is good. Looks like a big burly beast.

[Wolff]

lol yeah, she will be a dread for sure. All turret weapons and for the medium hardpoints, going to try something different, Just farming the mats for them now.

[Walrus-Sama]

I bought a Type 10 out of curiosity after using Type 9 for a while, hoping it would be side-grade to Type 9 and to be a safer mining ship with guns. And it may well work for that purpose.

However, as soon as a bought it I headturned to the side and saw that the large vent things on the front of the ship clip through the hallways on the upper inner part of the ship on either side.

Immediately sold it.

[Wolff]

Eh, not everyone likes this ship that's for sure. Done my research for making credits with it. I will have no shame using the Advance auto dock :)

[Heimdall313]

You shall now suffer docking a football stadium. Not the field - the stadium. It handles about as well as one. :P
Have no shame in autodock, I'm a maniac that lands it manually and usually I ding the armor and I have Reactive armor that costs more than the rest of the ship + the ship itself.

I love my Type 10, its my mining rig. The Power Plant and Armor are your *huge* expenses, but for mining you can actually skimp on that quite a bit. Power Distributor, Thrusters are the big boys. FSD is actually pretty good on it. FSD booster really makes it jump - my Type 10 out-jumps my combat Krait II with 256 tons of cargo and both have boosters.

I'll even give you something useful - the hardpoint and utility slot map!
From top to bottom on your Hardpoint list:
L1, L2, M2, M3 are your top hemisphere.
L3, L4, M1 are your bottom hemisphere.
The S slots are perfectly placed on either side of canopy. The big, beautiful canopy.

Utility slots:
1, 2, 5, 6 are your top hemisphere.
3, 4, 7, 8 are your bottom hemisphere - Point defense in these slots guard your Cargo Hatch from Hatch Breakers.

ASPX is a lot easier for anything involving an SRV, its quite a chore to land a Type 10 on a planet. XD

I can't explain why its so cozy, only that it is. Oh, and if you use it for combat at all, turn flight assist off. Its the only way to pitch, the FA counterbalance thrusters make you turn like a pregnant cow, turning it off enables the grace of a not-pregnant cow.

[Wolff]

Haha pregnant cow, too funny. Man good thing I'm getting most of what I purchased already at 15% off. Really chewed on my bank account. My Krait flying around doing all the shopping. Will have to head back to Robigo and do passenger missions and hopefully later today will take the cow out for engineering. I'm experimenting with three medium turrets when I go out bounty hunting and If I don't like how they work will throw on more pulse lasers.

https://edsy.org/#/L=Fa8WOdgc0H4C0S00,Eki06Eki06FEQ06FEQ06LIs06LIs06LIs06FBS06FBS06,,9p316AAoXK24xAR_YR8DcAg2YO2bpAu6Y3QOB9IYV19sBLoYE9QBeEXK4RY,,7UwWPFIBmpT1tOWO2bpmpW03wXA2i,,FR_D28T

Thank you very much for the very useful tips!

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Heimdall313:

You shall now suffer docking a football stadium. Not the field - the stadium. It handles about as well as one. :P

I bet it's not as bad as landing with a Cutter.
Cutter stops or turns whenever it feels like it. Never when you want it to.

And if one of Cutter's wings even touches one of the lamp posts near landing pads the effect is similar to :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8kMOXPoZE

[Wolff]

Way to funny hahaha

[ShelLuser]

Type 10 is one of the most satisfying cargo ships I have, it's also one of the few large ship I own which I land manually, it's hardly that difficult and actually handles quite well (provided that you upgraded its core components of course). Anaconda, Beluga, etc.? No thanks, but this one is really kinda easy.

And nothing is more satisfying (IMO) when you deliver cargo, get interdicted and then launch a fighter and let the turrets to their work. So far all of my attackers got blown up, which means... more cash for me (bounty claims).

Although I still own a fully outfitted Type7 (for nostalgia sake, and I actual enjoy flying it) the Type10 is my favorite.

[Wolff]

Eh, for sure. I kept all my cargo holds at the station. When I start bounty hunting for credits, most of my optional components will be hull and module reinforcements and maybe a 7B shield bank, not sure on the a 7A yet. Using the flachete launchers I can spam them for ever until ammo runs out with no power drain. I can also synthesize the ammo for the launchers. Great weapon that totally evades shields and does module damage. Haven't tried them with Turrets yet and I'm not sure if I can set them to weapons free. Can't find nothing online about the turret versions so, I'm going to test them myself. With fixed flachete launchers, both my Cobra and Phantom use them and you have to release the trigger when they get close to target. How do you do that with turrets? If the turret versions release on their own than they are a very op weapon.

For moving cargo I wasn't planning on buying a ship for just that but, I can get my raiting up with my faction in no time to rank 5, very cool. I can farm killing pirates for huge amounts of space cheddar and to have that feeling of being one nasty Dreadnought, is very appealing to me.

This video sold me on the Type 10 Defender.

https://youtu.be/O6aAo99Eo6E

[JL::Jose-Juan Kenobi]

Congrats on the T10, pretty cool ship!
It was the first big ship I got, and yeah it was quite the sticker shock when I started A-rating everything, but worth it.

I have never put turrets on it for some reason, but a mix of lasers and multicannons, all lasers long range, MCs regular OC, and a fighter, made CZs fairly easy.
That's a lot of hardpoints, all that pew pew potential :-D

[WRONGTURN]

Originally posted by Wolff:

Feels good buying a new ship in Elite Dangerous and I’m pretty stoked with my new purchase, the Type 10 Defender. To save on some time I can drop in the power plant and PD from my Krait MK II in her and look forward to outfitting her with everything else. I’m glad I chose Li Young-Rue, I seem to be saving a lot on outfitting and buying ships with this Powerplay faction. Took only 15 jumps from Robigo to Pathan to buy this ship at 15% off. When I looked in Inara was the only place that was selling her for a discount and paid 106 mil. Kept with my Tactical grey like the rest of my ships and now to start going for more raw materials in the SRV. One thing I have to say, in VR this cockpit is huge!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613452178
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613452521
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2613452760


Hope to make a lot of space cheddar with her.

In VR the type 10 has the best cockpit view in the game.

[averagepleb]

Love my T10 the AFK ship of choice, made me a ton of coin back in the day.

[Wolff]

Well I'm pleased that I went with the medium Turret Flechette Launders. Saves on power and totally messes pirates up. Wasn't for sure that they would release on their own like the fixed flachettes you have to release the trigger once they get close. The turrets on fire at will, do all for you. Just stocked on mats for synthesizing the ammo.

Don't have the reactive armour yet will save up on that next and still need more engineering on the build. Here is an update on her now.

https://edsy.org/#/L=Fa8WOdgc0H4C0S00,Ekimi3xdB6v_W0Ekimi3xdB6v_W0FEQmK5CN94_W0FEQmK5CN94_W0LIsWOGbrLIsWOGbrLIsWOGbrFBSm4Lb98_W0FBSm4Lb98_W0,DBwmO4IQ4r_W0DBwmO4IQ4rvW0DBwmI3fG8qpG0DBwmI3fG8qqx0CzYW2I7CzYW2I7CzYW2I7DBwmV3ZQ4rqj0,9p3H04owm0ADInhN4Ge34_W0ARMujA8bd2o_W0Ag_mjA8bd3Hqj0Au6W3QOBAEmf1_EG35Ll0BLoX5B5BeEXK4RY,16ynG6tT92xs025SXQ5iC,7Xmmh5Mgw92EW0522WZ5hl91tOWROFi34aWi1Yx915OnO2_R4YYO01LUYK15x05UX3AK12Gn0ZABK_W02jwmK3FX8mfa00nFY9BD,,FR_D28T

[AJ24]

I love my Type-10 AFK build so much I can't even seem to stay AFK with it 😁