Re: [GZG] Battlecruisers

At 1:18 PM -0700 12/24/06, Richard Bell wrote:
>
>Actually, whether you could really do that is a 
>matter of how much acceleration is one thrust 
>point, or if the mass set aside to produce 
>thrust is purely engines or engines plus beefing 
>up the structure to handle the stress.  If each 
>point of thrust is one g, then upping the 
>acceleration from 4 to 6 is more than just 
>bolting on half again as many engines.  Of 
>course, the rules seem to imply that all hulls 
>are built to handle thrust 8 (possibly 10), 
>whether they need to or not, as the rules make 
>no mention of higher thrust hulls costing more 
>than pokey lower thrust hulls.

It could be a combination. Because with more 
thrust at the end, you get more turning 
capability which is nice torsional and bending 
moments which can do all sorts of things to a 
structure. Though, I'd suspect that if you don't 
hang lots of armor and other weight on a given 
structure and you put more thrust behind it a lot 
of what you do to support the increased mass out 
on the end of your pendulum is duplicated if you 
have the same structure and increase the force of 
movement.

>
>Answering another of your posts, once your 
>likely enemy also has BC's, sending DD's and/or 
>CL's to scout for the enemy's fleet becomes 
>prohibitively expensive, or impossible if your 
>light units have other uses, like looking 
>screening your battleline from enemy subs (one 
>of the reasons that prevented a Jutland rematch 
>was the feeling that the RN did not have enough 
>DD's for a proper anti-sub screen).

Which is where you get better sensors (I started 
trying to use sensor rules for partially this 
reason and including sensor fits on my faster 
ships). Of course subs aren't an issue in FT.

>The RN BC's fared poorly at Jutland not so much 
>because they were tucked into the battleline, 
>but because they were scouting for the High Seas 
>Fleet and the visibility was bad enough that 
>they were under the HSF's guns when they 
>actually found them.

And there's been some problems called into 
question where British powder handling is 
concerned.
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