Re: [GZG] Battlefllet Gothic Conversion

[<john_tailby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

GW isn't the only Space Opera universe to have huge ships.

You can scale the ships however you want. If 50 tonnes is how you have chosen to represent an escort then scaling to 20 times for a dreadnought sounds fine.

You could simplify the games by scaling down the ships bu then you end up with the cruiser class carriers having 2 suadrons of fighters and a couple of beam batteries.

If you want to make a short range pulse torpedo with 4" range bands just halve the mass of a normal torpedo.

When designing the ships you want to make the ships ponderous so Imperial Cruisers would probably only have thrust 3-4 at most, abd battleships maybe only 2-3. IIRC about 1 point of thrust per 5cm of GW movement sounds about right.

Imperial and chaos ships have most of their weapons bearing broadside and only limited amounts of weapons bearing frontally.
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