Re: [Stargrunt-Fullthrust] FW: [FullThrust] Low thrust small ship designs

Okay, no hull boxes (brilliant!)  - That aside, the questions *do* come
to mind - how small is small /and/ how do you use small low spped FT
ships a/and/ what do you arm them with.

I'll try again on the 'Peony' - fragile hull (1 box) and  less (2 from
3)
weapon space.  Duh

Never Mind on the *really* Desperate...  Double Duh...

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:10:59 EST Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com>
writes:
>Bringing this to a list near you <grin>.
>
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>From: "triphibious" <triphibious@juno.com>
>To: FullThrust@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [FullThrust] Low thrust small ship designs
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:00:24 -0000
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>Been thinking about a post on the gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu list 
>concerning "...low thrust small ships..." and how to deploy them.
>
>Laserlight posted his excellant ash Shaulah strike craft:
>(in summary)
>Mass 8
>FTL mass 1 (.8 rounded up)
>Main Drive 6 (2.4 rounded to 2 mass; amazingly a drive four is 1.6 
>rounded to 2 also so there is no saving mass for a slower ship)
>1 FCS mass 1
>4 mass weaponry (B3/1 arc, 2 NB, SMR 2 x MTM or submunitions x 4.

1 hull box *was* included in laserlight's design...

>
>I am assuming that the original poster was interested in convoy 
>escorts (but maybe not) because the post read, in part, "...If escort 
>ships are kept close to the things they are escorting, then they
>don't need such big drives..." and most non-combat ships seem to run 
>about main drive 2, only requiring a MD of 4 if you are thinking a SF 
>equivalent to the WW2 armed trawler/sloop/corvette.
>
>So I took Laserlight's model and tried it out in designing even 
>smaller ships:
>
>"Peony" Class Escort:
>
>Mass 6
>FTL mass 1 (.6 rounded up)
>MD 4 mass 1 (1.2 rounded down)
>FCS 1 mass 1
>3 mass weaponry:
>some possibilities - B2/6 arcs, Submunitions x 3, B1 x 3, MTM and
>PDS, NB and B1, or B2/3 Arc and PDS.  More are possible (such as 
>armor) but I stopped there.
>
>"Desperate" class gunboat:
>
>Mass 4
>FTL mass 1 (minimum)
>MD 4 mass 1 (.8 rounded up)
>FCS 1 mass 1
>Weapon mass 1:
>
>B1 or Submunitions pack.  In a strictly defensive role I guess you 
>could put some 'armed' with a PDS if you expected them to act as 
>decoys to SM's (once.)
>
>Other then a low level convoy mission playing the role of close in 
>last ditch protection, what scenarios would such ships have value in?
>
>Gracias,
>Glenn
>
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