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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: BIG Naval Ships... Why not!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.223630.1425@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
- References: <Bzuxro.F9u@newsflash.concordia.ca> <1992Dec26.142845.7065@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:36:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.142845.7065@gw.wmich.edu> x90vanderkol@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >In article <Bzuxro.F9u@newsflash.concordia.ca>, kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) writes:
- >> Does anyone have any good arguments as to why it is impossible to design
- >> a modern day (or even WWII vintage) naval vessel. I mean something big
- >> enough to scare the bejebbers out of an Overlord-class dropship.
- >> 16-inch naval guns and all (hmmm.... lots of NACs, Arrow IVs, Naval
- >> Energy Guns, Naval Missiles and all that).
- [Good ideas for converting space naval weapons to ocean naval weapons
- deleted]
- >
- > With all this talk about Naval ship has peaked my interest, when is
- >BATTLESPACE comming out? Will it also have design rules for dropships and
- >Combat Jumpships?
-
- ___
- |hese two topics go together well.
- ___
- |he reason it's impractical, right now, to design ocean naval
- vessels larger than 300 tons is because engines don't exist to power
- them. With only a suspension factor of 30, 215 tons is the largest
- ocean naval vessel you can make that moves at a crusing speed of even
- _2_. Everything from 216-300 tons has a max speed of _1_. Since this
- isn't open space, these ships can't build up any velocity, like slow
- dropships can, too.
-
- \/\/here BattleSpace comes in is that it WILL have rules to design
- space naval ships. This, hopefully, will provide the rules for the
- larger engine sizes needed for large ocean naval vessels. I haven't
- seen any indication that FASA has thought of this, as well, so there
- probably won't be anything mentioned in BattleSpace about ocean naval
- vessels. Wouldn't it be funny to see the looks on people's faces,
- though, if when they opened up BattleSpace they found rules for ocean
- naval vessels, as well? ("I knew this game was about warship combat,
- but I didn't know it included THOSE kinds of warships!" :)
-
- |\|o shipping date has been announced for BattleSpace, yet.
-
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