From: Bif Smith <bif@b...>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:43:55 +0100
Subject: FT-Bttleships
This is another repost because I didn`t get it back, so sorry if you get this twice. I was just watching the battleships program, and I had a this thought about a battleship design about building a dreadnought style warship. My thinknig is to build turret into a warship, which would be fitted with single arc weapons. These turrets would be able to traverse a 5 arc radis, but would also be able to be destroyed separately from the ship itself. These turrets would be built just like miniture ships, with their own hull and armour, which would be counted towards the total mass of the ship. For the purpose of taking dammage, I would use a die roll to see which turret incoming fire would hit. This is just a rough idea (VERY rough) at the moment, I have put forward to see if anybody has any other ideas that may help me (no, I will not nick them <G>). A example of a 4 turretted design for a 30 ktonne SD. Mass=300 Cost=880 (if fitted with K5 bats) DP=30 Armour=10 FTL=30 Drive (T=4)=60 F.Cons=4 Screens x2 PDS x6 Turrets (x4)=40 mass each. Each turret has 10DP. 30 mass for armour and weapons (eg-2x K5 bats +8 armour). The above design was made using a ratio limit of total turret mass limit of x4 turret total mass (including turret hull) of the turret hull. Also, would use a die roll to see where every incoming round hits (1=No 1 turret, 2=No 2 turret, 3,4=Hull, 5=No 3 turret, 6=No 4 turret). I think this ship would be very powerful weapon, but be more vulnerable to incoming fire disabling it`s weapons.