A question to you Naval Typ^H^H^Htypes...

A thread of 2 messages, 9 March 1993 to 9 March 1993, in the order they were sent.

#5277 A question to you Naval Typ^H^H^Htypes...

Anthony Neal · 9 March 1993

How's she goin'?

	As you may have guessed, this is about starships, or actually,
Warships.

	I've been looking through a few designs and have been thinking about
my own designs (Mediocre, really) and have become confused as to what
various classifications mean. I have heard of Battleships, Carriers,
Cruisers (Light and Heavy) and Dreadnoughts (sp?) and Frigates and
Destroyers and, well, What are the requirements for a ship to be classed
as any one of these?
	I have looked at the Voroshilef (spelling by memory) Battleship listed
in the Rebellion Sourcebook, and I see it's big (300,000 tons), has a lot
of firepower, but why is it a Battleship? Why not a Destroyer or Planet
Crusher? Whatever.
	My common sense tells me that factors such as size, firepower, maneuver
drive and jump capability, as well as duration of operation, must all
contribute to this classification process. But how?

	I hope someone can enlighten me to this, and if you feel it
inappropriate for the TML (As I'm sure it's been discussed...), please
feel free to send responses directly to me.

								Thanks,
								Anthony

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#5283 Re: Question to naval types

Adrian Hurt · 9 March 1993 · reply to #5277

Duncan Law-Green [email removed] writes:
>
> c) Any other UK Travellers on TML?

Yes.

Anthony Neal [email removed] writes:
>
> 	I've been looking through a few designs and have been thinking about
> my own designs (Mediocre, really) and have become confused as to what
> various classifications mean. I have heard of Battleships, Carriers,
> Cruisers (Light and Heavy) and Dreadnoughts (sp?) and Frigates and
> Destroyers and, well, What are the requirements for a ship to be classed
> as any one of these?

At a guess, whatever the owner, designer or builder of the ship thinks
suitable.  Battleships need jump drives, otherwise they're battle riders
or (probably) very large system defence boats.  Carriers probably need
jump drives, or they won't carry anything very far.  Dreadnoughts is a
fancy word for battleships, and I suppose it might apply to battle riders
as well.  Anything else is up to you - take a look at the Kinunir class
battlecruiser, whose designation sounds a lot more impressive than its
firepower.  It's up to you whether a destroyer is a small escort ship,
as were WW2 destroyers, or whether it is a super battleship, as were the
Star Destroyers of "Star Wars".  In your own fleet, I'd expect that heavy
cruisers are heavier than light cruisers. ;-)  But if someone else's light
cruisers are bigger than your heavy cruisers, don't fight them unless you
have a tech level advantage. :-)

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