Traveller starships
In reply to #2308 Traveller vehicles and starships by Marc Alexandrovich Volovic
Marc Alexandrovich Volovic [email removed] writes: > > I have finally obtained the bloody Traveller and started designing vehicles. > Since the largest ship seen by me so far is the Atlantis battleship (of R. S. > Dean's fame) I have decided to try my hand at a ship exactly twice as large > (and of the same TL). Assuming the Atlantis class has the most powerful weapon available, what is gained by increasing the size? Greater jump number, perhaps. But for the same amount of money, I'd buy more, smaller ships and get more spinal mount weapons for the same cost. Perhaps the rules ought to be modified to allow two meson guns to be mounted side by side, jointly forming the keel. Or how about a catamaran-type design, with two keels? > Since the ship is large and cannot make refueling runs, how the Navy feeds > them? >From smaller ships which can make refuelling runs; the Azhanti High Lightning has several shuttles for this job. Or from a large ship whose sole purpose is to carry lots of fuel around for other large ships; otherwise known as a tanker. - - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]