From: Christopher Pratt <valen10@f...>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 17:38:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship/Crew sizes? (FT & B5 - kinda on topic)
> Loki wrote: I use a small formula to determine the crew sizes for my ships... escorts...2x MASS= CREW crusiers...3x MASS= CREW Captial...5x MASS= CREW that produces number that are close enough for me...
From: s953273@a... (Loki)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 00:49:14 -0400
Subject: Ship/Crew sizes? (FT & B5 - kinda on topic)
Hello all, We were playing a game recently and someone actually had the audacity to ask how big these ships were supposed to be! After several shocked moments, and a host of mumbled 'I have no idea' we tried to figure it out and stuff, alas, we're too stupid, seeing as how we are all doing an arts degree.:) So I was wondering, does anyone have a rough idea of; a.) approximate ship sizes for general classes, i.e. Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser etc. b.) approximate crew sizes for general classes, we're considering setting up a campaign and having crew sizes could be handy. This is for the 'official background'. <grin> Secondly, having recently purchased B5 Wars, I flipped eagerly to see the ship stats, and was brought up short by the ship lengths/crewing details. Does anyone know of a good site/good information regarding this? I think the ships in the manual may be a tad small compared to the impression I received?
From: Jason Berman <sigue@o...>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 04:44:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship/Crew sizes? (FT & B5 - kinda on topic)
Loki, A couple of my friends have been wondering the same thing. We tend to put crew sizes down the the type of role a ship is designed for. eg much of my fleet is Yamato inspired ala Star Blazers and therefore one would think [if I can remember the cartoons] that there are about ten people driving the capital sizes, shooting things etc with everyone else off flying around in fighters. I've got a model of some mega-yamato [about 10" long!] capital ship [the Yamato 2520] which I still haven't built, and it comes with this funky poster wich has cool cartoon shots etc and a cut-away of the ships systems etc and you can actually see people driving the thing! That's my five cents worth on the matter Admiral Atmosphere sigue@one.net.au ---------- > From: Loki <s953273@ariel.macarthur.uws.EDU.AU>
From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:11:05 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship/Crew sizes? (FT & B5 - kinda on topic)
> Secondly, having recently purchased B5 Wars, I flipped eagerly The AoG guys said they got their information on ship compliments and stats straight from jms. For what it's worth. Mk