From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:38:44 -0400
Subject: [FT] Troop transports
Looking back in the archives ( http://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/199811/msg00947.html ), Mike Elliot suggests that 1 FB mass should be about 20 Cargo Space from MT (pg 15), with a note that a size 3 vehicle will occupy 60 tons (4CS/size x Size 3 = 12, 12CS/CS/mass = 0.6 mass, and 1 FB mass =100 tons), and "that seems about right." On the other hand, a Bradley is, AFAIK, about the same size hull, and weighs in at 25 tons, so maybe a class 3 vehicle should be 25 tons. Four of them would fit neatly into a 100 ton FT mass; four times 12 CS = 48CS. And MT says that a troop who is awake (ie, not a Marine-sicle) will need four CS. That means 5 guys per Mass, which means 1 man per 20 tons. Even including life support and such, that seems like a lot. Queen Elizabeth was 83,000 tons, and in her troop transport days she could carry 15,000 troops (hot-bunking and stacked six high, but still...). Even assuming that her *entire* mass was devoted to "troops capacity" (ie no hull, no engine) that's 5.5 tons per man. Let's say instead that she had a Fragile hull, MD2 and FTL, and everything else was barracks space-- that works out to roughly 4 tons a man. Let's double that to account for life support and a little more room for the lads. That would make 8 tons per troop, which means about 12 of them would fit into a FT mass...which again works out to 4CS per man x 12 men =~ 48CS per FT mass. Coincidentally, MT suggested 50CS per Mass...even though FB ships are bigger than original FT ships, maybe it'd be as well to stay with 1 Mass = 50 CS. Comment?