A historical battle for FT

How about Lissa?  Italy v. Austro-Hungary, 1866.

Real version:  The brand-new It. fleet of modern (for 1866!) ironclads,
led
by poor admiral (Persano) and lacking training and coordination, was
defeated by the A-H fleet, led by a skilled and aggressive admiral
(Tegethoff).  The A-H fleet had a number of ironclads but included many
wooden steamers.  The A-H fleet also lacked heavy guns.  Ramming played
a
major role and this battle was a major factor in the prevalence of
"ramming
theory" in the late 19th century.

FT version:
1)  Ironclads are warships;  wooden vessels are Q-ships.
2)  To simulate ramming, use submunition packs in the fore arc.
3)  No fighters or missiles, so no PDAF are needed. 
4)  Most It. guns are 1-arc (or Port and Starboard 2-arc, if you care to
allow it) B-batteries, with an occasional A (e.g. on the turret-ram
"Affondatore") and some Cs.  
5)  Most A-H guns are C-batteries with a few Bs.  
6)  Most vessels have little firepower in the fore arc other than the SM
packs.
7)  Ironclads have screen level 1, or level 2 for Affondatore
8)  Italian vessels will be about Thrust=2, A-H will be about Thrust=3
(or
perhaps 4 and 5)

Examples:
Full thrust ship design sheet						
	       
Ship:	Affondatore (Italian ironclad turret ram)	Damage Points=24
Type:	capital 						
	System	Full Thrust	Number	Arcs	UMass	UCost	Mass   
Cost
1	Main BtyA battery	3	3	3	13	9      
39
2	Ram	SMpack		9	1	1	3	9      
27
3	armour	Screen Lvl:	2	na	3	25	6      
50
subtotal							24     
116

Hull mass							48     
96
FTL	yes						       n/a     
96
Thrust	2						       n/a     
96
						
total cost							       
404

Full thrust ship design sheet						
	       
Ship:	Re d'Italia (Italian broadside ironclad)	  Damage
Points=24
Type:	capital 						
	System	Full Thrust	Number	Arcs	UMass	UCost	Mass   
Cost
1	MainBty B battery	8	1	2	5	16     
40
2	Ram	SMpack		4	1	1	3	4      
12
3	armour	Screen Lvl:	1	na	3	25	3      
25
4	chasers C battery	1	3	1	5	1      
5
subtotal							24     
82

Hull mass							48     
96
FTL	yes						n/a	96
Thrust	2						n/a	96
							
total cost							       
370

Full thrust ship design sheet						
	       
Ship:	Ferdinand Max (A-H broadside ironclad)		Damage Points=22
Type:	capital 						
	System	Full Thrust	Number	Arcs	UMass	UCost	Mass   
Cost
1	MainBty B battery	2	1	2	5	4      
10
2	MainBty C battery	8	1	1	3	8      
24
3	Ram	SMpack		6	1	1	3	6      
18
4	armour	Screen Lvl:	1	na	3	25	3      
25
5	chasers C battery	1	3	1	5	1      
5
subtotal							22     
82

Hull mass							44     
88
FTL	yes						       n/a     
88
Thrust	3						       n/a     
132
						
total cost							       
390

								
Full thrust ship design sheet						
	       
Ship:	Kaiser (A-H wooden broadside ship)		Damage Points=10
Type:	merchant							
	System	Full Thrust	Number	Arcs	UMass	UCost	Mass   
Cost
1	Main Bty	B battery	2	1	2	5      
4	10
2	Main Bty	C battery	10	1	1	3      
10	30
3	Ram	SMpack	4	1	1	3	4	12
4	chasers C battery	1	3	1	5	1      
5
subtotal							19     
57

Hull mass							38     
57
FTL	yes						n/a	57
Thrust	3						n/a	114
							
total cost							       
285

To keep it playable, give the Italians about 6 broadside ironclads and
the
Affondatore (perhaps as a reinforcement arriving from FTL, as she almost
missed the real battle) and the Austrians say 4 ironclads and 6 or 8
wooden
ships (not all as big as Kaiser).  For "terrain", the planet (ex-island)
of
Lissa, with a couple of patches of asteroids and/or dust as shoals or
rocky
outcrops.  For multiplayer games, the Italians should have more captains
to
maximize the possibility for confusion.

Rob

Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR	  Tel. (01865) 512361
rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk
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