I kind of wanted to add a mission for the Goat and the Scythe, but I think I'll do a release anyway without these.
If you want to play with either, the TEST mission should be set up to have a Standard load-out Goat and an Assault Scythe.
Thanks to catattack for coming up with the general design of the Scythe, I'm sorry it ended up as a freighter rather than the murderous cruiser I think it was intended to be ... I'm going to put that one down to the engineering liberties taken by the King.
These two ships are balanced off the Hammerhead and the Apogee accordingly.
The Scythe carries some hangar space and some cargo room, so could be a decent member of a fleet, but it is pretty lightweight (although fast) and can be dangerous in the hands of the player with two medium ballistic mounts, two small ballistic and two small missiles. Kinetic weapons and some Harpoons or Annihilators should make you fairly dangerous against most things. It has an Omni shield, linked to low flux reserves but a good vent rate (and generally low flux requirements anyway).
The Goat is similar in armament and speed to the Apogee - with a bit more armour and less crew / cargo / hangar space etc. It can field a shard and a spike wing for escort duty, so it still does okay. The energy-intensive loadout can make flux management an issue, although the systems are fairly advanced and the Goat has a few OPs to play with to make a layout that works for all types of Captain. The positioning of the weaponry is a little bit sub-optimal, but isn't that part of the fun? Frontal shield covers the majority of the ship (300 deg. or so), but limited point defences towards the rear can mean you might require those escort ships. Carries a large energy turret, which suits those sissy Captains that favour (and own) the Tachyon Lance (although you are unlikely to meet a Goat in Corvus that is carrying one).
1.15 released
-Goat Cruiser added
-Scythe Destroyer added
-All mothballed ships changed to hull only
-Octopus mounts now respect correct slot sizes (typhoon in small slot ...)
-Tweaks here and there ...