[FT]New ship design-helps & how-to

1 posts ยท Jul 17 2001

From: Alderfek@a...

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:27:01 EDT

Subject: [FT]New ship design-helps & how-to

hI ALL, I have recently started to work up stats for my custom ship designs
and I approached the designs from the angle of equipping the design,then
finalizing it. Problem is, I come up with a dreadnaught of 375 mass and points
of 1399. Is this way too much for standard play? I am using the FT Fleet book
ship designer and Fleet Mgr. The stats I punched in are as follows:
                     Mass     Pts
Hull Int.25 94 188 FTL 38 76 Thrust 4 75 150
Shields     2	     38 	114
Cl.2 Beams 8 16 48
Cl.3 Beams  6	3    42 	126
Pls Torp    2	      8 	 24
SML 3 9 27
SML Mag     6	2    14 	 42
PDS 6 6 18 FC 3 3 12 Hanger Bays 3 27 81 Armor 5 5 10 Fighters Intercept 2 36
  Torpedo   2			 72

Total Mass    375
Total Points 1399

Advice?

My original plans for this design was to have a ship of dreadnought class with
the capability to support groundforce operations(the reason for the hanger
bays). Granted this is for a custom
non-FT universe but this is my first time at
designing ships using the FT construction rules.

Thanx,