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Tugs and Tenders, example of shipdesign based on new and modified rules

From: "Henrik Malmvig" <malmvig@g...>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 22:34:51 +0200
Subject: Tugs and Tenders, example of shipdesign based on new and modified rules

A section describing Tugs and tenders could be found in 'New And
Modified
Rules' page 8. The rules are simple. Tenders uses 1.5 MASS of hangar
space
for every 1 MASS of carried ships whether the carried ship are
FLT-capable
or not. For tugs even simple rules is used: Tugs need a drive that is
capable of 10% of their own MASS plus additional drive MASS equal to 20%
of
the total MASS of ships they can tow.
Needed a ship of 100 MASS being towed the drive of the tug should be
capable
of additional Jump drive capacity of MASS 20. If the tug itselves have a
MASS of 50, the total Jump drive capacity is equal to MASS 25.

Now let say that I need a tender to carring my Manchuria class of a TMF
equal to 94 from a battle inflecting lose of the battleships FLT.
I will need hangar space equal 94*1.5 MASS = 141 MASS. If the tender
should
have an average hull and a FLT plus THRUST-4 we would come to something
like
this:

TMF(tender)=hangarspace+TMF(tender)*30%(average
hull)+TMF(tender)*10%(FLT)+TMF(tender)*4*5%(THRUST-4)
=>
TMF(tender)=141MASS+0.30*TMF(tender)+0.1*TMF(tender)+0.2*TMF(tender)
=>
TMF(tender)=0.60*TMF(tender)+141MASS
=>
1=0.60+141MASS/TMF(tender)
=>
0.40=141MASS/TMF(tender)
=>
0.40/141MASS=1/TMF(tender)
=>
TMF(tender)=141/0.40MASS
=>
TMF(tender)=352.5MASS

is that so? - let try reversed:

352.5MASS

Average hull 30% => 352.5*30/100=105.75
FLT equal 10% => 352.5*10/100=35.25
THRUST-4 equal 4*5% =>352.5*20/100=70.45

TMF(tender-hangerspace)=105.75+35.25+70.45=211.45+141(hangerspace)=352.4
5

This is of cause without any defence installations! Now is there any
rules
that prevent my tender of carring fighters in peachtime?
This tender is also cable of launching 94 fighters! This is quite a big
tender! remember that the ESU Superdreadnought Komarov class only have a
TMF
of 220:-) So shipdesign of tenders carring battlecruisers is quite
unrealistic but this was only for the cause of an example:-)

Regards

Henrik Malmvig

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