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OTU Only: Does anyone know of a Canon Class for Battle Tenders?

Commander Truestar

Commander Truestar

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So,
I've been searching through my library on the Imperial Navy from all versions of Traveller, and have yet to find any mention of an actual class of Battle Tender.
I did find two classes specified by the "Freelance Traveller". But I have not found any canon classes mentioned or named/described

Am I missing something?
 
Commander Truestar said:
I've been searching through my library on the Imperial Navy from all versions of Traveller, and have yet to find any mention of an actual class of Battle Tender.
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LBB S8, p15-17 ... the 300,000 ton World-class battle tender with a squadron of 5 battle riders has a picture illustration at the top of p16.

So that's ONE ... :sneaky:
 
"300,000 ton World Class Battle Tender with squadron of five Battle Riders." S:8

"An appeal to the Imperial Navy brought eventual results, and during the fleet exercise of 1104 the million-ton fleet tender Gorodish carried the Empress Troyhune to Rorise in place of one of its Hadrian class battleriders." S:9

"The 154th was equipped with a Lurenti class Battle Carrier (capable of carrying seven Nolikian class Battle Riders) soon after the end of the Fourth Frontier War. Heavily armed and armored, the carrier serves a battle control station as well as a centralized jump drive for the squadron"SMC

TNE Battle Rider Triumph class and Cleon class get counters.
 
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mike wightman said:
"300,000 ton World Class Battle Tender with squadron of five Battle Riders." S:8

"An appeal to the Imperial Navy brought eventual results, and during the fleet exercise of 1104 the million-ton fleet tender Gorodish carried the Empress Troyhune to Rorise in place of one of its Hadrian class battleriders." S:9

"The 154th was equipped with a Lurenti class Battle Carrier (capable of carrying seven Nolikian class Battle Riders) soon after the end of the Fourth Frontier War. Heavily armed and armored, the carrier serves a battle control station as well as a centralized jump drive for the squadron"SMC

TNE Battle Rider Triumph class and Cleon class get counters.
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Thank you!
Have you got any data on the Lurenti or Nolikian classes?

I can't seem to find anything more than the mentions you pointed out
I did find a write up of the 154th on line, but what I found does not have any real data on those classes
 
I correct myself
I found the following:

154th Battle Rider Squadron
Battle Carrier: Lurenti-class Battle Carrier.
BCF Shurduu (Flagship)(Vilani for Strong Hero)
300,000 tons. Jump-4. 2G.

Battle Riders: Nolikian-class Battle Riders.
BR Agu (Vilani for Proud)
BR Iirba (Vilani for Dignified)
BR Lannur (Vilani for Honored)
BR Ledur (Vilani for Fortunate)
BR Lindikir (Vilani for Balanced)
BR Galek (Vilani for Grandiose)
BR Akinnina (Vilani for Deliberate)
20,000 tons. Jump-0. 6G.

Fighter Support: 154th Heavy Fighter Group
Sylean-class Heavy Fighters
50 tons. Jump-0. 6G.
1st Fighter Squadron (Five Flights of
20 Fighters numbered 1 through 20).
2nd Fighter Squadron (Five Flights of
20 Fighters numbered 1 through 20).

Fleet Escorts: Sloan-class Fleet Escorts.
FE Rowley
FE Dickson
FE Palmer
FE Holmes
FE Stewart
FE Warren
FE Baldwin
5,000 tons. Jump-4. 6G
 
Grand Admiral Plankwell is still remembered and honored for his achievements as a naval commander in the First Frontier War; significantly, his name has not been assigned to any ship in the new Cleon class of battleriders, named for Emperors of the Imperium.
 
The riders in BR can be reverse engineered to some extent from the counter stats.

Gallant has a honking great meson spinal with great range, can fire twenty lasers per battery (with the number of batteries equal to the absolute value of the size mod, so three batteries). A bunch of missile launchers (the rules and errata are a bit messy about how these work with batteries). It naturally has top of the line fire control, sensors, and masking. Fuel scoops and 6G manoeuvre. Lots of armour (500cm of hard steel equivalent), and an auxiliary bridge. A very strong meson screen, tons of sandcasters, and dampers. Displacement about 36K Dtons.

Admiral has a less exciting meson spinal, plus a powerful and very long ranged secondary parallel particle beam weapon (or perhaps the other way round - the game effect is the same). A set of powerful and long ranged lasers, plus a whole mess of short ranged PD lasers. The same top-end sensor and EW gear as Gallant, but because it's made at TL14 it'll be at a disadvantage vs a TL15 opponent (and won't have the edge over a TL14 ship that Gallant has). Fuel scoops, but only G5 manoeuvre (which isn't quite as big a deal in TNE/BL/BR as it would be in HG). The same armour as Gallant, and even stronger meson screen, but fewer sandcasters and dampers. Displacement about 25K DTons.
 
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