Full Thrust Age of Sail?

Hey all, I had heard there were conversion rules for Age of Sail using the
Full thrust rules? Does anyone know how to find these?

Rob Paul sent this to the list in 1996:

1) 1 minor rules change:  Beams with only 2 non-adjacent arcs (ie P&S)
ARE permitted.
2) Rules of thumb to convert Napolenic warships to FT/MT (to produce a
starting point design which can be adjusted as appropriate).
a) Mass= Number of guns as rated - so for example a 3rd Rate 74 gun ship
of
the line becomes a Mass-74 capital ship, and a 36 gun 5th rate frigate
(in
the old sense) becomes a Mass-36 cruiser.

b) For "rated" ships (1st to 6th), add 1 screen generator and 2 PDAF PER
GUNDECK (assuming fighters/missiles will will be allowed for fun!
Otherwise replace the PDAF with SM packs or beams according to taste).

c) Limit forward-firing armament to 1 mass-point _per Gundeck_ (usually
3-arc C-batteries)

d) Convert the broadside armament to beams: Usually say half thearmament is
the heaviest appropriate to the vessel's
type, half the second heaviest.  A-batteries represent 32pounders down
to
24s; B-batteries represent 24s down to 18s; C's represent anything
lighter.

e) Thrust = the vessel's rate, except that 100-gun 1st rates are allowed
a
thrust of 2.  Enormous 1st Rates, eg Spanish 112's and the 130-gun
Santissima Trinidad, are superships.

> Hey all, I had heard there were conversion rules for Age of Sail using

On the Full Thrust Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FullThrust/,
there was some recent discussion of a FT Age of Sail conversions under the
topic "Full Sail" starting on November 4th.

It was interesting for me to see this question come full circle as I just
read today's digest from the Minnesota_Miniatures_Gamers Yahoo group
which prompted this email.

Yep, I'm looking for a good set of rules for Age of Sail while writing my own
just in case. Oddly enough the idea of a Full thrust conversion intrigued me
because I had thought that if my Age of Sail rules turn out
to be fun to play, they might make a good sci-fi conversion as well!
Thanks for the info! By the way Dean, are you here in Minnesota?

Jason

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> By the way Dean, are you here in Minnesota?

In case Dean doesn't get right back to you, he's in the Dakotas, Fargo, as I'm
in Nebraska, making us 'neighbors'.

Isn't this where Indy makes his plug for his player-finder list?
http://www.bcpl.net/~indy/full-thrust/location.html

The_Beast

> > Hey all, I had heard there were conversion rules for Age of

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/old_ships.txt