Re:Liners in service

At 3:02 PM -0400 8/27/99, Thomas Barclay wrote:
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>Okay, but I'm fairly certain the intention was not to have them
>engage - they were "TROOP TRANSPORTS". Engaging any troop transport is
>bound to be bad news for that vessel. The liners had high target
>profile and were easy to hit. In the GZGverse, if time permitted, they
>might have 2xPDS, a fire control, and maybe an SMR mounted. They
>aren't meant as line ships or assault ships. They are meant to move
>mainline bodies of troops (larger than your assault marine formations)
>to a hostile zone but they are meant to be escorted by some escort
>cruisers or at least ships with ADFC and enough teeth to hold off the
>raiders.

That's what the Royal Navy did with the majority of the mobilized 
liners. It's the poor SOBs on the armed auxilliaries I've been 
talking about

>Like merchant carriers, they were used because they filled a niche
>quickly and without the peacetime expense of maintaining the military
>lift capacity the military requires in "hot war" situations. They are
>vulnerable, but may be your only choice.... and to put them in a
>scenario would assume they were "caught out" and the enemy located
>them and could mount a credible attack. Then the trick for the
>defender is to keep them alive....

the Germans could have gotten heavy surface units into contact with a 
troop convoy (if the Kriegsmarine had been trying harder). Feel like 
writing up a scenario ?
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