RE: [GZG]shiproles [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Ken Hall <khall39@xxxxxxxxx>]

These are good distinctions. Another way of thinking about ship roles is at a higher level of abstraction (ideally, the time to think about this is the time the ship is designed). What is it you intend to accomplish with your ship(s)?

 

Sweep the enemy's warships from space? Whatever line-of-battle ships trip your fancy and suit your doctrine.

Get into his rear echelon (in the strategic sense) and ravage his lines of supply and communications? Battlecruisers (no expendable ordnance, please).

Keep that cloud of Nea Rhomaoi fighters ;-) you expect to face off your battleline's back? Frigates, destroyers, light/escort cruisers as Brendan describes (as well as your own fighters)

Operate for long periods away from home in peace and war, showing the flag in peacetime (without breaking the budget) and doing any of a dozen dirty jobs in wartime? This looks like a job for a patrol cruiser, preferably one that doesn't rely on expendable ordnance for its main punch.

 

These are just my opinions--I hope they are of some use.

 

Best regards,

Ken

Chief of Naval Operations

United Stars Navy

"Robertson, Brendan" <Brendan.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Attack" ships are designed to punch through shields/armour consistently
> over several turns (pulse torpedoes, grazers, K-guns etc)
> "Strike" ships tend to be one-shot in nature, with lots of ordinance
> (salvo missiles, MT missiles, submunition packs etc)
> "Escort" ships emphasise area defence and usually have twice as many PDS
> as equivalent ships with several ADFC to "reach out and touch someone".
>
>
> Brendan
> 'Neath Southern
>  Skies
> http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: On Behalf Of Andy Skinner
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:40 AM
> > Subject: [GZG] ship roles [TO BE CLASSIFIED]
> > 
> > I only know the various ship type names as size classes. 
> > Where would I find out what the point of "Attack cruiser" vs 
> > "strike cruiser" vs "escort cruiser" is? That's just an 
> > example--what about roles for various ship classes and variants?
> > 
> > thanks
> > andy
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