Re: Realistic Fleet sizes

> >Another source of information for this could be found in the
> >GDW Trillion Credit Squadron book for the Traveller game.

> I was thinking along the lines of the NSL may have -say- four fleet
> carriers, 5 superdreadnoughts and so on.  
> 
> OK, so another reason why I was thinking about fleet sizes is that I
looked
> recently at the Bifrost NSL page, he has a photo of a huge fleet, I
was
> impressed plus I thought the if it were 'real' then surely it would
> represent a large proportion of the entire NSL fleet.

I found Trillion Credit Squadron and it lists a rough formula of
an annual naval budget of 500Cr x Population x Government modifier.
The standing navy is a factor of 10 times the annual budget.  

Converting Traveller credits to Full Thrust points is approximate, 
but based on a destroyer design and an FT cost of 100, 20MCr = 1 FT Pt.
It seems high, since a 2 Billion population world would generate
50,000 FT points per year.   Divide by ten and we have a 2 Billion
world with a budget of 5,000 pts and a fleet of size 50,000 pts.

Rounding... 4 Carriers	4,000
	    5 SDN	5,000
	   10 BDN	8,000
	   16 BB	8,000
	   40 CA       10,000
	   40 CE	8,000
	   40 CL	8,000
	   80 DD	8,000
	   60 FF	5,000
	   40 CT	3,000
		     ---------
		      ~70,000 Pts.

Just some thoughts....

Jon Davis
davis@albany.net