Re: FT-Battleships

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Taylor <charles.taylor@cableol.co.uk>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: FT-Battleships

> In message <003101c0ccff$e18b3f60$f8c3893e@inty>
>	    "Bif Smith" <bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Griffin <carbon_dragon@yahoo.com>
> > To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: FT-Battleships
> >
> >
> > > I missed some of this thread, but it sounds like
> > > you're using something like the supership concept
> > > to design a little ship inside the ship. In other
> > > words, each turret is a small vessel containing
> > > some systems? If this is true, then it can have
> > > it's own drive system (MD1) sufficient to move the
> > > turret and based on the weight of the turret?
> > >
> > > Maybe it would help if you published an entire
> > > example. Say a Vree battlesaucer with a big
> > > turret in the middle, all costed out?
> > >
> > That`s what I was aiming for originally, raised by the fact the
turrets
on
> > the musashi/yamato wheighed more than a destroyer. I suppose you
could
build
> > them with engines, but that would require you to add 50% mass for
the
> > launching bay. A turret would be securly and very permanatly fixed
to
the
> > main hull, and wouldn`t be able to be removed away from a large
shipyard. Of
> > course, they could be blown off by weapons fire.
> >
> > BIF
> >
> > "Yorkshire born, yorkshire bred,
> > strong in arms, thick in head"
>
> I _think_ Dave was suggesting that the MD1 drive represent the turret
> motors needed to turn the thing - ATM it doesn't have any means by
which
> the turret could be moved.
>
> Charles
>
Sorry, I thought he meant having drive to maneuver the turret separately
from the ship it`self. As for rotating the turret, I would have
something
placed in the hull of the ship to rotate it, based on the mass of the
turret
and the arc you want it to cover. Say, 1% mass of turret for 5 arcs, and
0.5% mass for 3 arcs (for example).

BIF

"Yorkshire born, yorkshire bred,
strong in arms, thick in head"