Re: Stamp Out Ignorance

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Edmund Hon wrote:

> APD (or AVP) - Destroyer Transport. Most commonly found 
> in the Pacific War during WW2, although most navies used destroyers 
> as troop transport at one time or another. Basically an older 
> destroyer converted to a troop carrier. The Japanese used a lot of 
> these in the Soloman campaign (the Tokyo Express).

The Tokyo Express shipped supplies mostly. And I'm not entirely sure
they did a lot of conversion work on those either. Americans had much 
more destroyers to spare for conversion than the Japanese ever did.

> CLAA - Anti-aircraft Cruiser. Another WW2 invention, a light cruiser 
> hull armed with multitude of AAA and dual purpose guns. A good 
> example is the Atlanta class, with 12 dual 5"/38 turrets. The FT 
> equivalent would be a ship armed with lots of ADAF and C turrets.

ADAF, since you want to protect others... C-battery is the closest thing

to a DP gun in FT, but that doesn't help any unless the fighter
commander 
is braindead enough to attack the AA ship instead of just whizzing past 
it to juicier targets.

Btw: I'm starting a FT campaign (NOT a PBeM game, sorry). How would you 
folks like if I posted brief summaries here?

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