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Re: Re: [FT] a "true Fisher Battlecruiser" for the NAC, was Battlecruisers vs. battleships

From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:43:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Re: [FT] a "true Fisher Battlecruiser" for the NAC, was Battlecruisers vs. battleships

At 2:38 AM +0100 5/17/02, Robin Paul wrote:
>Much SNIPPED
>In FT, BC means "light battleship". Real-life BCs were almost
invariably
>bigger than the corresponding battleship.
>The WW1 BC HMS Lion was a battlecruiser version of the battleship HMS
Orion-
>I was intrigued to see what would happen if the same changes were
applied to
>a FT battleship, so:

That increase in displacement is if I don't miss my mark, due to the 
fact that a longer hull is faster in the water than a given hull of 


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