Re: IF Fleet

Roger Books wrote in reply to Laserlight wrote:

> > a) FTL drives are less available to the IFN than to the
> > major powers.  Therefore many warships have no FTL drives,
> > and are hauled from system to system by tugs or tenders.
> > Ships with FTL drives tend to belong to the Sultanate rather
> > than the amirs (who can be somewhat independent-minded).
> 
> This breaks the fleet book.

Unless, of course, the non-FTL force has to pay for its tugs. 

>  Non-FTL ships are much more powerful on a BPV cost than FTL ships.  

Roughly 10-15% more powerful per NPV, as long as you don't count the
cost fo the tugs. With enough "minimal" tugs (fragile hull, no
defences, no weapons, thrust-1) to carry the entire non-FTL fleet,
they're some 30% *less* powerful than standard FTL-equipped warships
with similar armaments/defences.

> I would guess this is why ALL the national fleets are FTL in the
fleet book.

No, the reason why the FB ships are all FTL is that they're supposed to
operate offensively as well as defensively. In order to avoid expensive
and vulnerable tugs, they use FTL-equipped warships.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
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