RE: FT Design of Ground Assault Company

This is the total I get using slightly flexible construction & all the
known conversion/integration data we have.

Ground Assault Company (Starship module)
18 Mass & 44 points

Hanger Bay:	8 mass/24 pts
Drop Ship (mass: 5) - 10 pts
 - DS/SG equivalent class 20 (100 capacity)
 - 4 x class-3 APC (uses 24 capacity each) - (DS:204) - 4 pts
Troop quarters (4cs each, 20 cs/mass): (DS:325) - 10 mass/6 pts 
 - 40 Combat Troops (DS: 200)
 - 10 Support Engineers (DS: 125)

Conversions:
1 mass = 20 cs
vehicles require size x 8 in cs for storage (vehicle cs x 1.5)
1 FT pt = 60 DS pts

Assault APC - 51 pts + infantry (50 pts line troops?)
Size class 3, Armor class 2
Hydromagnetic Turbine, Fast tracked    
2 class 1 RFAC's in Full traverse turret with Enhanced fire control 
Space for 10 normal infantry (2.5 DS bases)

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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Oerjan Ohlson [SMTP:oerjan.ohlson@telia.com]
>Sent:	Thursday, May 20, 1999 2:50 AM
>
>> Ground Assault Company 
>> Mass: 10		Cost: 52
>>	Drop Bay [Mass: 6]
>>	    Dropship [Mass: 5]
>>		4 Class-3 APC (2 Squads of 2 Fireteams each)
>>	Troop Barracks [Mass: 4]
>>	    40 CombatTroops + 10 SupportTechs
>
>A strict reading of the DSII ground vehicle design rules (which are
>kinda assumed in the FT/DSII interface rules you're using here) doesn't
>allow 4 fireteams/elements to be put into a Size-3 vehicle.
>
>Are the vehicles permanently stored in the shuttle? Otherwise I get a
>Mass of 11 for the entire company. Similarly I get the cost to 17, not
>52: 2 for the bay + 10 for the shuttle + 5 (for the vehicle and troop
>areas). Are the troops the remaining 35-36 points?
>
>Oerjan Ohlson