Megatraveller ships & Vehicles.
This is with regard to the ships posted recently by someone from Sweden
Unfortunately I lost his address so I cannot mail directly to him.
It appears that there are a few or more errors in those designs that people
might want to know about.
1. Patrol Cruiser Type T-Mk2 and Type T-MFG
The Powerplant output of 4428Mw is insufficient to power the ships as they
atleast require 4800Mw if using antigrav maneuver and over 4900Mw if using
thrusters. Increasing ouput would likely increse the cost of the ships
while also reducing its endurance etc. The version I have been using and
one that has been posted is very similar. However it has a 5008 Mw Pplant
and its endurance is 14/44 upgradable to 24/71 by using extra internal
fuel tanks.
2. Vargr ships.
I was under the general impression that Vargr ships were maxed out at TL13
and that was the overall max TL for Vargrs. Even though I have seen
Kedzudh at TL16 etc. Overall there ships would in general be under TL15 as
a rule. Most GDW Vargr ships are souped up TL 11 ships.
Anyway that is my only disagreement with the VF etc.
However the Corsair is another story. First a model 2 comp is insufficient
to control over 20000 CP which this ship has. A fairly simple upgrade to
4 ought to do with slight modifications to other control systems.
My other question is with regard to the fact that it is such a 'tight' ship.
It is barely able to function at TL15 and supposedly it has been around for
atleast a millenium. Plus a corsair usually/mostly operates far from
established(read TL15) worlds how do u repair it. On a related note, the
'Imperial' corsair can't function on a model 2 either.
So a Vargr corsair at <TL15 say around TL13 would be interesting to see.
I have designed a few ships and it appears that old Traveller ships have
major problems translating into MegaTraveller. It seems that under TL15
those designs are practically unworkable. High Guard seems to translate
well unless the ships have anything over a 1 or 2 armor rating.
However I would like to see more ship designs up here on TML. I would like
to contact this person on e-mail as I seem to have lost his address. So
would the person please contact me.
Ameer Z. Sulaiman
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