Non-Canon Japanese fleet designs for review
From: FlakMagnet72 <flakmagnet@t...>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:36:44 -0500
Subject: Non-Canon Japanese fleet designs for review
As I mentioned yesterday, I have whipped up some quickly conceived ship
designs for the Japanese fleet.
I based them off of the NAC designs, adjusting so that the FT Japanese
would
compare to the NAC ships in a similar way to how WWII-era ships compared
to
WWII-era US and British ships.
This approach to designing them made them heavier as well as faster for
the
most part, fitting in well with the trial-and-error design approach the
Japanese had from 1922-ish onward after they stopped co-operating with
the
West as far as naval design and technology went, at least according to
the
single resource I've referred to (no bibliographical information
available
right now, I'm afraid). I am not 100% happy with the designs right now,
as I
found myself maxing out the MASS for the classification of the models
more
often than not.
I used Eric's java ship builder program and saved the designs out as
text.
(At this point, I'd like to thank Eric again for his effort in writing
the
shipbuilder program.) All of the files have been zipped up and uploaded
to
my usual site for sharing things. I figured if you wanted to look at
one
design, you're likely to have an interest in all of them:
http://geocities.com/flakmagnet72/JapaneseFleet_FlakMagnet.zip
The naming convention used for the files is pretty intuitive, I THINK:
JAP-[Class Abbreviation]_[Name of model per GZG].txt
If you have trouble reading the file in windows, rename it to a .rtf
file and
open it in word or MSWriter.
Though I'm the resident FT-guru when it comes to my local gaming group,
I am a
relative newbie to the game compared to most of you on this list, so
constructive criticism is welcome, even invited. If my designs apply
hard-vacuum (as opposed to floating in it) please let me know how you'd
change them.
I have an appreciation for Pulse Torpedoes, so I have concentrated on
those
more than SML/R, though I'm likely to revisit the designs to see where I
can
add some ER-SMRs to reflect the "Long Lance" torpedoes that surprised
the
Western naval commanders so much.
--Tim