RE: [FT/MT/DS]: Mass vs Capacity

Brendan Robertson wrote:

>Oops, I'm mixing up DS & SG rules.  DS vehicles can carry other
vehicles at
>1.5 x capacity.  It seemed simple to carry this across for rules
>consistancy.

Actually, DSII vehicles carry other vehicles at 8*the size Class of the 
carried vehicle.

>More like a whole day's delay.  There's unloading, unpacking, primary
>testing, secondary testing, refeuling etc, etc, etc.  It's not
something 
>you
>want to do on a hot landing.

OK

>
>The reason for 1 mass = 25 CS is partly due to the change in FT
>construction.	It may seem restrictive, but when you use a 200 mass
bulk
>freighter or a military cargo ship, it still carries a lot of vehicles
>(about 120 size 5 main battle tanks + crew).  It just means a FT combat
>capable starship can't carry ground vehicles efficiently.

Unless it's an assault carrier carrying a small elite strike force.

2B^2

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