From owner-ftgzg-l@bolton.ac.uk Wed Apr 3 09:23:55 1996 Received: from batch1.csd.uwm.edu (root@batch1.csd.uwm.edu [129.89.169.224]) by alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (8.7.1/8.6.8) with ESMTP id JAA02609 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:23:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk (basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk [193.63.48.5]) by batch1.csd.uwm.edu (8.7.1/8.6.8) with SMTP id JAA21678 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:21:18 -0600 (CST) X-ListName: Full Thrust Combat Game Mailing list Warnings-To: <> Errors-To: owner-ftgzg-l@bolton.ac.uk Sender: owner-ftgzg-l@bolton.ac.uk Received: from mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk (mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk) by basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk (MX V4.2 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 03 Apr 1996 15:12:48 +0100 Received: from ivpc003 by mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk (8.6.5/NERC-1.2(IRIX 4.x) id PAA28511; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:12:50 +0100 Message-ID: <199604031412.PAA28511@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk > X-Sender: rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 15:12:39 +0000 To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk From: rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk (Robin Paul) Reply-To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk Subject: The Nelson touch in space\Hornblower amongst the stars... Status: RO X-Status: Hi folks; here are a couple of thoughts on transferring warships from the age of sail to FT/MT- this lets a whole new strand of history and literature generate scenarios. It requires 1 minor rules change and a few "rules of thumb". Any thoughts? Rob Paul NERC Institute of Virology Oxford The Nelson touch in space\Hornblower amongst the stars... 1) 1 minor rules change: Beams with only 2 non-adjacent arcs (ie P&S) ARE permitted. 2) Rules of thumb to convert Napolenic warships to FT/MT (to produce a starting point design which can be adjusted as appropriate). a) Mass= Number of guns as rated - so for example a 3rd Rate 74 gun ship of the line becomes a Mass-74 capital ship, and a 36 gun 5th rate frigate (in the old sense) becomes a Mass-36 cruiser. b) For "rated" ships (1st to 6th), add 1 screen generator and 2 PDAF PER GUNDECK (assuming fighters/missiles will will be allowed for fun! Otherwise replace the PDAF with SM packs or beams according to taste). c) Limit forward-firing armament to 1 mass-point _per Gundeck_ (usually 3-arc C-batteries) d) Convert the broadside armament to beams: Usually say half thearmament is the heaviest appropriate to the vessel's type, half the second heaviest. A-batteries represent 32pounders down to 24s; B-batteries represent 24s down to 18s; C's represent anything lighter. e) Thrust = the vessel's rate, except that 100-gun 1st rates are allowed a thrust of 2. Enormous 1st Rates, eg Spanish 112's and the 130-gun Santissima Trinidad, are superships. Examples: HMS Bellerophon, 3rd Rate (74) Ship of the line =============================================== Item Mass Cost Hull-74 - 148 FTL - 74 Thrust-3 - 232 Screen-2 6 50 4 PDAF 4 12 2 C-bty (PFS) 2 10 5 A-bty (PS) 15 50 5 B-bty (PS) 10 35 =============================================== Totals 37 611 USS Bellerophon, 5th Rate (36) Frigate =============================================== Item Mass Cost Hull-36 - 72 FTL - 36 Thrust-5 - 90 Screen-1 3 25 2 PDAF 2 6 1 C-bty (PFS) 1 5 4 B-bty (PS) 8 28 4 C-bty (PS) 4 16 =============================================== Totals 18 278