Ship Designs 1 of 4

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From: [email removed] (Stephen D Smith)
Subject: More MT ships (1 of 4)
Organization: personal mailbox at The Next Challenge

Hello all,
      I've been quietly watching the TML for a while, and
been passing it along to members of my gaming group since
they have no net access. One of my group wanted me to post
the following information. Due to the length of this
posting, and the fact my local mailer cannot take long
messages this posting will be sent in 4 pieces. Please feel
free to reply either directly to him, or me. Thanks, and I
hope you find this of interest.

          Stephen D Smith   USENET: [email removed]
                            BIX: sdsmith

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Howdy!
      Scott Kellogg is the name, Stephen Smith allowed me
to take a look at some of the MegaTrav discussion going on
and I was suitably impressed.  Neat designs you folks have
come up with.  So I decided to repay you all with a few of
my own.  I am afraid, I have no access to e-mail so you
will not be able to reach me very easily and there will be
long gaps between my having access to any comments to any
designs or ideas you might have but I would appreciate it

      Scott Kellogg
      [address removed]
      [phone removed]

      Ok, are you ready for the question of the day?  What
is the rate of fire of missiles in COACC?  GDW's Air
Superiority allows ripple fire of 2 missiles per round of
the same type of missile.
      Well, that's against aircraft.  More than likely, an
aircraft would be destroyed by two.  OK, what about larger
targets?  If an aircraft went up against a larger target it
seems conceivable to me that systems would be convertible
to fire a larger number of missiles.  What specifically am
I talking about?  Fighter vs. Spacecraft.  Now anti-
spacecraft missiles weigh in at 50 kg for a normal missile
and 70 kg for a nuclear missile.  These missiles are
therefore capable of fitting on any hardpoint, on multiple
missile/bomb racks as a matter of fact, if you use all
available hard points plus two wing tip launch rails and
four fuselage launch rails (allowed for in the errata and
vindicated by the RAF Lightning and the A-7 Corsair II) a
total of sixty missiles are easily mounted externally,
(ignoring the bomb bay for the moment.)  That's two battery
rounds of a factor 6 battery, (TL-7) (at TL-13 it's factor
7).
      That makes an aircraft unbelievably deadly.  That's
the firepower mounted on a 1000 ton ship.
      Real life example:  in less than a minute the 'Six on
six test of the Phoenix missile system, six phoenix's
locked onto and fired on six targets in less than one
minute, by an F-14 Tomcat.  Since a starship combat round
lasts twenty minutes, I can easily see an aircraft firing
off a huge salvo of missiles in the time allowed.
      Game balance, you say?  Well... maybe, but you could
easily build a huge number of squadrons of cheap fighters
with Fusion rocket engines.  Also, with the enormous thrust
of the fusion rocket its very easy to build say a 12G
capable interceptor or even higher.
      More mundane question:  What are the penetration
values of the different air to air missiles?  Suppose my
players want to fire a radar homing AIM-7 Sparrow at a G
Carrier?
      Mundane question 2:  If the minimum size ship
thruster plates can be mounted on is 20 tons (Fighting
Shi*s of the Shattered Imperium), what about Anti-Grav
plates?  You can put grav modules on a 4 ton air/raft, Why
not grav plates?  The rules state that fractions of Grav
plates and thrusters can be built Personally, I think the
20 ton min is stupid.  It's torn apart a lot of my best
light fighters.
      If you ask me, I use
Book 2-Starships:  to design merchant ships,
Book 5-High Guard:  to design warships,
and Megatraveller to design headaches.

I hope you enjoy the designs,
                             Scott Kellogg

Focke-Wulf FW 190 TL=6 Fighter

CraftID:   Fighter/Attack Aircraft, TL=6, MCr.1389
Hull:      (16/40) Disp.=6 Weight Loaded=5.4
           Airframe=Subsonic,
Power:     0.015 Mw (Drawn from engine) Endurance=3 hrs
Loco:      4/10, High Performance Propeller,
           Thrust=6.4 tons Min=150 kph, Cruise=600 kph,
           Top=800 kph, Agility=6
Commo:     Radio=Regional-6
Off:       MMG*2 Fixed forward firing,
           20mm autocannon*2 Fixed forward firing,
           Fuselage hardpoint*1,
           Outboard hardpoint*4,
           Maximum external stores=1400 Kg
Control:   Simple
Accom:     Crew=1 (Pilot) Oxygen tank and mask,
Other:     Fuel=900 liters
Remarks:   Late war versions were used as fighters and
           attack aircraft.


Ju-87 Stuka TL=6 STOL Attack Aircraft

CraftID:   Attack Aircraft, TL=6, MCr.142050
Hull:      (15/37) Disp.=5.5 Weight Loaded=5.07
           Airframe=Subsonic, Armor Cockpit=8
Power:     0.015 Mw (Drawn from engine) Endurance=4 hrs
Loco:      4/10, Basic propeller, Thrust=2 tons
           Min=70 kph, Cruise Loaded=299, Top Load=399,
           Cruise Clean=450 kph, Top Clean=600 kph,
           Agility=2
Commo:     Radio=Regional-6
Off:       MMG*2 fixed forward firing,
           MMG*1 Flexible mount rearward firing,
           Fuselage hardpoint*1,
           Outboard hardpoint*4,
           Maximum external stores=1320 Kg
Control:   Simple
Accom:     Crew=2 (Pilot, Gunner) Armored cockpit, Oxygen
           tank and mask
Other:     Fuel=600 liters
Remarks:   Just wait till you tell your players, "Suddenly,
you hear a horrible blood curdling howl coming from above.
You look up, a dive bomber is coming straight down at
you... My god!  They're Stukas!"

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