[FT] FTL tugs

Guys

How do FTL tugs work with the fleet book construction rules?

Cheers

Dan

> Daniel Cleyne wrote:

Take the normal 10% of Mass for FTL for the tender. To this add mass for FTL
drives equal to 20% of the mass to be towed. It spells it out fairly well on
page 8.

What it doesn't mention is towing normally. What we are doing is assuming the
tender can still tow whatever mass, however, to determine thrust use the
current mass of manuever drivers compared
to the (mass of ship + towing ship).  For instance, (using my
tug) I have a 100 mass tug which may FTL tow 150 mass. When not towing it is
thrust 3 (15 mass of manuever drives). When towing its max it is thrust 1, 250
mass ship, 15 mass of manuever is greater than 5% (12.5) and less than 10%
(25). If the tug had less than 12 mass of drives it would be unable to move
the full cargo load at combat thrusts. Wether it can move it at all is up to a
house rule.

> Take the normal 10% of Mass for FTL for the tender. To this
Oh wow. How blind am I. Thanks for that. I was looking for ways to be able to
extend the construction rules to deal with a 'hyperspace' universe in which
some ships could get bigger FTL drives to push them through hyperspace faster
than normal FTL drives.

> greater than 5% (12.5) and less than 10% (25). If the tug had less
Cool. I hadn't even considered that as a problem yet. It seems like a sensible
solution

        Cheers

        Dan