Re: [FT] Obsolete ships

Rather than tinkering with the points system / design rules, which I
hate
doing, I've just restricted the weapons I fit on older designs. My
'obsolete
battleship' design has nothing larger than Class-2 batteries, no screens
(just armour and high hull integrity), no P-Torps, SMs etc. It only has
two
PDS, the PSB behind this being that SMs weren't invented when the ship
was
designed and fighters weren't such a threat (analogy = late 30s / early
40s
wet navies). Low thrust engines are the order of the day as well.

I haven't yet designed an obsolete fighter carrier but I guess the same
ideas would apply, so you'd restrict the fighter types available to
(say)
standard, maybe interceptor.

"John M. Atkinson" wrote:

> One of the ideas I was playing with for a while was to have a NRE
> 'mothball' or Reserve fleet with older ships which no longer quite cut
> it on the front lines.  I wasn't sure how to represent this.	One
> thought I had was to remove the more 'high-tech' weapons, and to make
> the ones that were installed bulkier.  Any ideas on exactally how to
peg
> the ratio of 'modern' size to 'obsolete' size, and how to point-cost
> them?
>
> John M. Atkinson