Oerjan scribbled:
> There are some... oddities with both NRE, IF and Alarishi designs,
(snip the list)
> IFN Tulwar "DDH" (though at Mass 50 - *more* than the Turcoman and
Brendan was responsible for classifying (and designing) this one; if you look
at the mass ranges given for DDH in the Fleet Book, you'll see that 50 can
qualify as a DDH.
As far as the others go, I haven't hand checked them, instead relying on
Jared's spreadsheet 4.0 version. I am happy to send you (and anyone else) the
spreadsheet. I'll mention that the designs on the spreadsheet are not
identical to the web page, which I promise I'll get around to modifying Any
Day Now. I am not responsible for the NRE ships (except for his "Composers of
Sacred Music" class, based on my Night Music class).
> Laserlight wrote:
...Snip...JTL
> Day Now. I am not responsible for the NRE ships (except for his
I suppose it would be a retorical question to ask if one of the ships in this
class was named 'Eine Kleine Nacht Musik'.
Bye for now,
> Laserlight wrote:
Yup. Often escorted by Eine Kleine Nachtjager, so I'm told.
> Laserlight wrote:
> >IFN Tulwar "DDH" (though at Mass 50 - *more* than the Turcoman and
Sure. It's just that the classification uses the extreme upper end for
the DDH class and the extreme *lower* end for the CL class - which means
that within the same service, the DDHs are 25% bigger than the CLs... in
my mind it ought to be the other way around :-/ Comparisions with ships
from other services (eg, my using the NSL CL as an example) aren't very valid,
of course.
'Course, the ship classes tend to grow with time. so the Turcomans may simply
be a very old, obsolete class while the Tulwars are brand new <shrug>
> As far as the others go, I haven't hand checked them, instead relying
As long as it is smaller than 200K in.zip format (the biggest emails I can
download at the moment...) and that I manage to open it correctly in
Excel 5.0 I'll be happy to look it over :-)
> I'll mention that the designs on the spreadsheet are not
OK. I downloaded the designs from the web page.
Later,
> >IFN Tulwar "DDH" (though at Mass 50 - *more* than the Turcoman and
in
> my mind it ought to be the other way around :-/ Comparisions with ships
The Islamic Federation isn't a monolithic state like the NSL--it is a
collection of emirs, atabegs, beys, and such, most of whom are fiercely
independent, resentful, and suspicious. They are subject to the
Sultan--less so if the Sultan's fleet isn't around to enforce it.
Cooperation between the emirs is a very dicey thing, and a lot more likely on
defense than offense. This is why the Federation hasn't managed to conquer any
of their smaller neighbors, such as the Alarishi. The Tulwar was designed for
one planetary emir's fleet, while the Turcoman was designed by the Sultan's
architects. We're lucky they pay any sort of attention to the mass ranges at
all.