Re: Question to naval types
In reply to #5277 A question to you Naval Typ^H^H^Htypes... by Anthony Neal
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. :-) - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!uknet!cee.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]