FT-Bttleships

1 posts ยท Apr 22 2001

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.