RE: Ordnance

If you work that about 20% of the crew is made up of marines, you get
about
20 ground troops aboard a 100 mass battleship.	If you think you can
take a
ground objective with that many troops, good for you!
Once you start getting into troop cargo, you get about 5-8 men per mass,
depending on how you want to define CS.

'Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
Commodore Alfred K Hole - RNS Indy's Folly [CB]
Captain Nicolette O'Teen - RNMS Golden Spear [CB]
EBD Medusa

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom McCarthy [SMTP:tmcarth@fox.nstn.ca]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:32 AM
> 
> iii) I'm told by a reliable source that the FT fleets are too small to
> transport sizable ground forces such as we see in DS2 and SG2.  Since
> ground
> combat occurs, we can assume that outside the range of our tabletop
> weapons
> there are large clusters of massive troop transports, supply ships,
and
> tenders to transport troops.	They may also be available for the
repair
> and
> replenishment after the battle.  Why don't they appear on the board
during
> battles (especially surprise attacks) ?  I don't know.  Maybe they're
too
> valuable to attack or it's an oversight in scenario construction.