Re: [GZG] Re: Ship Roles & Classes Part Deux

[Ground Zero Games <jon@xxxxxxx>]

> Me:
> Now, usually a small craft with one, big shot, say, submunitions pack.
>
> How small?
>
> The naval designation for boat is usually 'can be carried by another
> craft', ship cannot.
>
> I always heard that a boat wasn't seaworthy for more than brief stints,
> while a ship could stay at sea. In SF terms, usually FTL = ship, no FTL =
> boat. It's what I think of in FT, though I know some small FTL craft have
> been called strikeboats.
>
> Basic idea is a lot of little boats that heavy, expensive weopens will be
> wasted on. Giant killers.
>
> The_Beast
>
> andy wrote on 05/16/2007 05:50:53 AM:
>
> >  Thanks for the replies.
> >
> >  What's a strikeboat?


Yes, we've been rather inconsistent about this in the past, I admit; 
maybe we ought to tie it down, and say that a StrikeSHIP (as we've 
used for the new-NSL FT522) is FTL-capable, while a StrikeBOAT is 
non-FTL. Aside from that difference, both are the equivalents of WW2 
MTBs or current fast attack boats - little craft capable of 
delivering a single-shot (or at best a couple of shots) punch that 
can seriously hurt a bigger ship. Crewed by very brave (or very 
expendable) men and women, as they go "pop" if anyone so much as 
points a weapon at them.....

Jon (GZG)

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