Re: [FT] Pics posted

At 10:41 PM 2/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>>...But I like your stats, they seem like the
>>>Kilrathi from WC.  What do the fighter codes mean (i.e. YY)?
>>
>>The codes are just simple extrapolations of the standard ship codes
used
>>now.	For a basic type code, you double the letter to make at least a
>>2-character code out of it.  For example, 'D' is for Destroyer class,
so a
>>'standard Destroyer' is a 'DD'.  Similarly, a Cruiser is a 'CC', a
>>Battleship is a 'BB', etc.  There are some exceptions - such as 'BC'
for
>>the Battlecruiser class and 'DN' for the Dreadnought class (which
doesn't
>>exist in wet navies :).  I simply used 'Y' for fighters at the
suggestion
>>of another who used it for Bab5 games.
>
>
>Alternately you could use the US Navy designations, which start with V
for
>aViation ("A" having been previously claimed for "Armored").  Remember
CV =
>carrier?  That's actually "Cruiser, aViation", since the first CV's
were
>built on cruiser hulls.  Thus a fighter squadron is VF and an attack
>squadron is VA.

True, but I was reserving the 'V' designation for planetary fighters as
opposed to space fighters. :)

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