Re: Troop Capacity

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> Um... if you've read the same Crusade (ie, Weber's) as I'm thinking
of,
> well... those marine forces were pretty small :-/ The TFN battleships
> carried about 100 - 120 marines each; superdreadnoughts around 300 -
350.
> I'd call that a company or three, but hardly an entire regiment. To
drop
> an entire division, you'd need several troop transports - or the huge
> fleets assembled towards the end of the war (like 38 SDs and 23 BBs
<g>).

Actually, that was my point.  (8-)  I wasn't refering to marine
complements
(though Starfire numbers always seemed more appropriate than the numbers
given in Honor Harrington), but the ability to drop three combat
divisions
with full combat loads at the end of the book.	The idea of having 
12 Dull Knife (? I think that's the class) transports sounds better
then the 27 plus MT type transports.  (And, if I remember correctly,
Dull Knifes are the civilian equivalent to battleship hulls in Starfire,
right?)

 
> > Hmmm.  Maybe a different multiplier for Cargo Space?  If we use FB
> > designs (which are roughly twice as massive for the same 'size'),
> 
> Should be "whose Mass unit is roughly half the size of the FT (basic
> rules) Mass unit" :-/ (which, of course, isn't specified anywhere <g>)
> But yes, that's the way to go.

Pick, pick, pick.  (8-)

J.

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