Liners in service

> Michael wrote:

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:48:16 -0700
From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@flash.net>
Subject: Re: Civilian Shipping

> At 3:43 PM -0400 8/26/99, Ryan M Gill wrote:

And proved to be almost worse than useless in actual combat. Things may be
different for spaceships, but for floating liners the disadvantages are:

1) High target profile, very easy to hit. 2) No armor
3) Usually had second-rate armament

somewhat surprisingly, crew quality was rarely a problem. Michael Carter
Llaneza

> At 3:02 PM -0400 8/27/99, Thomas Barclay wrote:

That's what the Royal Navy did with the majority of the mobilized liners. It's
the poor SOBs on the armed auxilliaries I've been talking about

> Like merchant carriers, they were used because they filled a niche

the Germans could have gotten heavy surface units into contact with a troop
convoy (if the Kriegsmarine had been trying harder). Feel like writing up a
scenario?