Re: New ships!

Oerjan wrote:
> But what about the FT921 OU Heavy Fighters? *Are* you going to get
them from Nic[?] <

Hope so.

> FWIW the new OU CVL has the same configuration (single outrigger) and
dimensions as the Eureka one but (somewhat) different surface detail;
the BC and BB OTOH are trimarans. <

That sounds great.

> It would be possible to make a mirror image of the CVL's hangar pod to
make a BB-sized trimaran carrier... but that'd take even more time, and
it'd *still* be smaller than the CVLs of other fleets, so I'm not really
sure that it'd be worthwhile. <

Smaller, but not necessarily smaller in terms of punch. Frankly, the
CVLs of the major powers are rather overly large for what they carry.
The NAC's Invincible class is a good example; I refuse to believe that
the contents of the command pod of an Ark Royal takes up _that_ much
space in that big hull! Let the OU design philosophy be small, fast,
flexible hulls that carry adequate to heavy weapons loads.

> It'd require that the OUDF is rich enough to afford warships that
large (not to mention capable of building them), too :-/ <

And what makes you think it's not? Hey, if the Japanese and the
srizonified FCT can have entire bl**dy fleets, the OU deserves one!

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