Greetings -
I have recently been fiddling around with large warship design,
mainly to get ready for the redesign of _Fighting Ships_, and became aware
of a potentially serious problem: I don't have all the errata for ship design.
I think before getting serious we should pool our info to make sure we are
all using the same rules.
Example problems from a past post by Rob Dean:
[Fighting Ships problems]
>Between the fact that the designers did not incorporate the errata that
>was available into the designs (such as reduced gunnery crews, reduced
>power cost of meson screens)
^^^^^^^^^^ - I don't have this.
[later in same article]
>Armor 100 (-20 on damage) is the level required to prevent any
> spinal mount or nuclear missile form doing any damage on the
> the surface damage table.
Some of the errata I do have has subtle consequences. For instance, the
+6 on the damage tables was changed from just spinal mounts to any
weapon with UCP A+. At TL 15, a 100 ton missile bay has a UCP A,
giving a +6, and it can fire nuclear missiles for a total of +12 - which
means it can damage a ship with armor between 100 and 117, something
no other non-meson weapon can do, and giving at least a potential reason
for armor in that range.
Anyway, I have the 2nd printing of the Ref's Manual (the line
below the ISBN on the copyright page starts with a 2), and I have some,
but obviously not all, of the errata noted down in pencil. The errata I have
were taken from Metlay's set as of a year ago. I'm going to check with
him again, and if you think you have any rare errata or subtle consequences
of existing errata, send me email, and I'll post a summary when I think
I have a reasonably complete set.
Thanks,
W. Dow Rieder
When the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems
start to look like nails...