[FT] Fleet Book Kra'Vak

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

Ya'll remember the design sequence Mr. Schoonmaker posted a while back? 
The one that gave 2 points or armor per mass, and a free 50% increase in
hull boxes, with RGs weighing 1/2/4, scatterguns Mass 2, and K'V weapons
costing 4 per mass, 2 per armor mass, and the hull and drives are 3 per
mass?  Well, I finally got around to designing some K'V using this
sequence.  To find mass, I multiplied the More Thrust values by 2.5, and
made the Light Carrier arbitrarily the same mass as the Battledreadnout.

Overall, I'm very happy with the results.  I'll be cutting the RGs to 1
arc except for the Class 3s, although depending in playtests I may allow
the 3s to go up to 3 arcs and the class 2s to go up to 2.  My only
concern is that between the high thrust and the mass 2 scatterguns, the
scoutship masses 11!  I guess Kra'Vak just tend not to use really small
ships.	The trend I noticed was that if I wanted to stuff decent armor
onto the ship, I had to use a weak hull, which gave the K'V the same
hull boxes as a Human ship the same size, but a lot of armor.  

I only did the stats up for those minis which I own-- scoutship,
frigate, destroyer, patrol cruiser, heavy cruiser, battledreadnought,
and light carrier.  I'll do the other designs later today, and will try
to get them up on a webpage this weekend if there is any interest (not
today--Family Thang)

The ships were also very expensive--about the same as a Human ship one
class up.  The battledreadnought is 693, and the CVL is a whopping 760!
(This includes their Heavy Fighter squadrons) This, to me, explains why
K'V don't use fighters much, and the Strike Carriers are exceedingly
rare.  The carriers are soooo expensive.  Based on the comments in Los's
Rot Hafen story, I was planning of making it a 'house rule' that in
scenarios set in the first few years of the war, K'V fighters will not
have aces, and will consist of about 1/2 green squadrons.  After a few
years, the Humans teach them fighter doctrine the Hard Way.

I hope to get in some playtesting over the next couple of days, I'll let
ya'll know.

John M. Atkinson