I thought that that was the role that covettes played curretly. Or to make it
feel more like a Coast Guard cutter, remove the FTL and upgrade a
Class-1
beam to a Class-2 Beam with FP,F,FS arcs. Or trade the FTL for
Atmospheric Streamlining.
I couldn't find it, but I thought that I read that all ships had small (1 or 2
man) shuttles (as none of the ships in FB are atmospherically streamlined). So
that would provide the role of the rescue 'copter (treat as a single fighter
without a weapon).
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Brian Bell bkb@beol.net
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> -----Original Message-----
From: Bob Makowsky [SMTP:rmako@coqui.net]
> Cutter is 210 ft long
> Our main threat is lightly armed fast smugglers and slow moving
Knowing nothing about real ships and reading the Armament as "1 bigger gun and
2 smaller guns" I assume a Cutter is faster and more maneuverable than
fishers, but less so (or equal to?) vs. smugglers. Assume the Helecopter and
RHI are both is Mass 1.5 "boats" (or one is Mass 2, the other Mass 1) with
trades of capacity, light armament, and speed.
I get a Heavy Frigate: Mass 25
Cost 89 + small craft
Hull 7 Main Drive 5 Class 1 Beam 2 Class 2 (360) 1 Fire Control 2 Hanger bay 3
I gets smaller - more like a standard FB Frigate in mass - if the "big
gun" is Class 1, the smaller ones are PDS, and it's a bit slower:
Mass 19
Cost 67 + small craft
Hull 6 Main Drive 4 Class 1 Beam 1 PDS 2 Fire Control 1 Hanger bay 3
Crew sizes diverge, of course, but that's technology for you :-). Also
play with Hull strength if the Cutter is more heavily or lightly armored than
"standard" military ships. Plus I don't know if the "big" gun is 360 (or
close) or not. Or ignore this in favor of people who know what their talking
about.
> I couldn't find it, but I thought that I read that all ships had small
Its in More Thrust in the Boarding Parties section.
George
Noam,
Very nice! This is where I was starting to head with this. The heavier one is
about equivalent to our 270 ft cutter and the lighter to our 210 ft. We also
have a 110ft patrol boat that has the 25mm gun as well. Similar to the frigate
but with smaller hangar deck (1 RHI, no helo deck).
These seem to be about right. The guns have a 225 deg field of coverage (call
it 5 arc for game purpose) and the.50 cals have a 2 arc FS, AS or FP,AP arc
coverage. Making them PDS gives them some benefit but does not go too far out.
I like these. Thanks for taking the time to think about this.
Bob Makowsky
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