Re: Realistic Fleet sizes

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Brian Burger wrote:

> It gets worse than that, as the Russians seem to be letting their
fleet
> rust in peace, so only the Yanks have a major fleet...

Actually, I was referring to the British fleet. Russians had a great sub

force, but since WWI their surface fleet has been nothing to write home 
about. 
  
> So the regular FT CV design bugs you...change it, and rewrite your
> backgrond to justify it...no problem...unless your new opponent hasn't
> heard of your background...

Well, if I did that, everyone would just design their own carriers.
Actually, they already do, I was just using the vanilla ship as an 
example everyone would be familiar with. The problem's the same with any

ship that's almost completely fighter bays.

If I do a rules change, it would have to be a change to the design
rules. 
But changes to design rules invalidate prior designs, and are therefore 
to be avoided.

Ok, working solutions might include:

Fighter bays only in merchant hulls. Ok, so what about the
superdreddies?
Over X fighter bays only in merchant hulls. Not good because of the
linear
nature of the design system -- people would just split their carriers to
X-bay chunks.
Each fighter bay deducts Y from hull points (structural integrity blah 
blah...). Now this could work.
 
> So does anyone have any figures on the various colonial navies, say
> 1900-1945? Esp. 1900-1918, the era with, AFAIK, the largest number of
> big-fleet powers? I'll check Jane's Fighting Ships later in the week,
or
> Conway's, but if someone could check sooner, that'd be good...
 
I have the WWI and WWII memorial editions of Jane's. While not
completely 
accurate, they give a good enough picture.

> An aside: What's the Jane's equivilent in FT, in 2183? Jane's Fighting
> Starships? Just a thought...

Wouldn't that be the coming Fleet Book?

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