Re: FT Newtonian Acceleration was Re: B5 Ship Combat

On 2 Sep 2003 at 20:08, Jared Hilal wrote:

> In backgrounds where the capital ships are much larger
> than fighters (like B5, SW, BSG or BFG), the size of a fighter group
> forces the size of the ship to be enlarged by quite a bit (it's really
> difficult to get 12 TIE groups on an ISD).

The Fleet Books give tonnage stats for the ships, but the FT rules are
quite clear about 
being generic as far as ship size is concerned. So, it's not necessary
for a Star Wars 
ship to be, oh, 800 TMF (I pulled the number out of thin air) because
Lucas says the 
tonnage is X and a GZG 400 TMF capital ship is 0.5 X. Instead, you could
make your 
SW ships 400 TMF, assume one TIE fighter in FT terms represents 2 "real"
TIE fighters, 
and keep everything scaled.

I've played around a little bit with my own background universe and I
tend to create 
capital ships in the same sizes as cruisers in FT. Why? Because FT is
too slow to play 
games with a dozen capital ships on a side in a reasonable amount of
time.

I do admit that there is a limit to scaling downward. Once you get low
enough you have a 
hard time placing enough weapon systems on the hull to represent all of
the weapon 
mounts, and you have a hard time differentiating ships within the same
size class.-- 

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