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Non-Canon Japanese fleet designs for review

From: FlakMagnet72 <flakmagnet@t...>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:36:44 -0500
Subject: Non-Canon Japanese fleet designs for review

As I mentioned yesterday, I have whipped up some quickly conceived ship 
designs for the Japanese fleet.

I based them off of the NAC designs, adjusting so that the FT Japanese
would 
compare to the NAC ships in a similar way to how WWII-era ships compared
to 
WWII-era US and British ships.

This approach to designing them made them heavier as well as faster for
the 
most part, fitting in well with the trial-and-error design approach the 
Japanese had from 1922-ish onward after they stopped co-operating with
the 
West as far as naval design and technology went, at least according to
the 
single resource I've referred to (no bibliographical information
available 
right now, I'm afraid).  I am not 100% happy with the designs right now,
as I 
found myself maxing out the MASS for the classification of the models
more 
often than not.

I used Eric's java ship builder program and saved the designs out as
text.  
(At this point, I'd like to thank Eric again for his effort in writing
the 
shipbuilder program.)  All of the files have been zipped up and uploaded
to 
my usual site for sharing things.  I figured if you wanted to look at
one 
design, you're likely to have an interest in all of them:

http://geocities.com/flakmagnet72/JapaneseFleet_FlakMagnet.zip

The naming convention used for the files is pretty intuitive, I THINK:

JAP-[Class Abbreviation]_[Name of model per GZG].txt

If you have trouble reading the file in windows, rename it to a .rtf
file and 
open it in word or MSWriter.

Though I'm the resident FT-guru when it comes to my local gaming group,
I am a 
relative newbie to the game compared to most of you on this list, so 
constructive criticism is welcome, even invited.  If my designs apply 
hard-vacuum (as opposed to floating in it) please let me know how you'd 
change them.  

I have an appreciation for Pulse Torpedoes, so I have concentrated on
those 
more than SML/R, though I'm likely to revisit the designs to see where I
can 
add some ER-SMRs to reflect the "Long Lance" torpedoes that surprised
the 
Western naval commanders so much.

--Tim

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