[FT] Blake's 7 Ship Stats (clean stamp)
From: Charles Taylor <nerik@m...>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 19:59:49 +0100
Subject: [FT] Blake's 7 Ship Stats (clean stamp)
Well, I double checked the statistics for Blake's 7 ships I posted a
while back - it appears that a systematic error crept in somewhere :-(
Revised Statistics:
Liberator/Spaceworld Deep Space Vessel
Hull Mass 436,210 tons
Length 912.12m
Height 485.44m
Width 534.28m
Starburst Class Pursuit Ship
Hull Mass 97,000 tons (estimated)
Length 439.91m
Height 187.27m
Width 282.01m
Federation Supreme Headquarters
Hull Mass lots!
Diameter 5,930.28m
Height 675.65m
Small Pursuit Ship (shown inside Supreme HQ)
Hull Mass 15,500 tons (estimated)
Length 212m (estimated)
Height 90m (estimated)
Width 136m (estimated)
Class 16 Transport (Prison Ship 'London')
Hull Mass 2,972 tons
Length 54.71m
Height 25m
Width 35m
Wanderer II Planet Hopper (Scorpio)
Hull Mass 4,752 tons
Length 102.72m
Height 34.75m
Width 42.67m
Spaceworld Patrol Ship
Hull Mass 89,000 tons (estimated)
Length 620.57m
Height 143.21m
Width 145.04m
Looking at the hull mass values, a conversion to FT MASS of 1000 tons =
1 MASS seems to give a suitable range:
Liberator 436 MASS
Starburst Class 97 MASS
Sm. Pursuit Ship 16 MASS
Class 16 3 MASS
Scorpio 5 MASS
SW Patrol Ship 89 MASS
This is ok for the big ships, (but the Liberator is a bit _too_ big!)
but the small ships (Class 16, Scorpio) tend to drop into the 'small
craft' classification.
Suggestions on statting them up:
Liberator (and Spaceworld Patrol Ship) - could follow Nick Garbetts
suggestion, and use Sa'Vasku rules (gulp!)
Maybe invent a new system to represent the 'power banks', say 1 MASS
hold 2 power, costs 2 points. Needs separate power generation to
re-charge.
Force Wall - use 2 screen nodes for now.
Weapons - 3 stingers for Liberator (1 for patrol ship)
+ 1 pod launcher to represent 'Missiles' & 'Surface Bolts' using
suitable pods from the WDA.
+ lots of hull & maybe layered armour
Federation Pursuit Ships:
Standard human hulls, drives, etc. level-1 screens at most, no armour.
Weapons - Plasma Bolt launchers or Pulse Torpedoes
Scorpio
Need special rules for photonic drive :-)
Charles
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