[FT]Scale in Full Thrust

1 posts ยท Jun 6 2001

From: Bif Smith <bif@b...>

Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 00:41:53 +0100

Subject: Re:[FT]Scale in Full Thrust

> Oh, a HH SD would have a mass of 75000 mass (YES, 75 thousand!!!)

> Wow, I was low...I came up with the 2-3000 mass value just looking at

> The crew size and physical dimensions of the vessels also gives one

Oh, I made a little mistake, in that a 7.5 million tonne SD in HH would be
either a IAN SD or a older SD, the newest HH SD mass in at 8.5 million tonnes.
You could use each mass to represent 100 tonnes, but 100 tonnes per mass
actually works better for the weapons (a inpeller drive missile masses in at
100 tonnes, or 1 mass, and if you used the masses given for the MT missile
launcher in the WDA, they work well for HH missiles with a little
modification). There would be other things to consider that if you wanted to
go into great detail work very well if you use 1 mass=100 tonnes, like using
AFSML`s as counter missiles. I once tried designing some ships like this using
the given figures, but I gave up for the SD (if you want to know what I mean,
use the different things from the WDA for the different weapons, with class C
pulsars for the energy weapons).

DD`s (at only 88 thousand tonnes or 880 mass, for the newest ships) are
easier, but it gets very difficult when you get to BC and higher <G>.