MT ship design question

[77topaz]

I guess most MT basic designs (those given in IE) are flawed at one degree or another because they mimicked those given in CT, adapting rules to that, instead of designing them with MT rules and accepting the changes needed.

About gunners, I've adopted the HG rules of needing one gunner per battery (one per turret if using mixted weaponry), 2 per bay and one per 13500 kl of main weapon/screen.

See that using pure MT rules, to mann a 1 rated Black Globe, you need 50 crewmemebers (15*400/0.1/10/120).

Black Globes are very high-TL though - things may be different there.

 

[McPerth]

Black Globes are very high-TL though - things may be different there.

And that's why I gave a 120 computer divisor, computer 9 (i guess no ship with Black Globe will be equiped with lesser computer)

 

[Carlobrand]

It's really a very different design philosophy. Everything is tech 15. If you try to build lower tech, you end up with an inferior ship that costs a lot more. High Guard had the same problem, but most of us kept the old Book-2 ships and rationalized some excuse that allowed them to run alongside the Book-5 stuff. Here, the old ships appear as TL 15 stuff, and they really only work as TL 15 stuff. It's like they abandoned the old world tech level thing for shipbuilding and decided all shipyards are building to TL 15.

 

[Carlobrand]

Another question: How the heck does the frozen watch work? The game has me dividing crew by 1/1000 the ship's mass - which is getting me numbers like 5 and 6, which I don't know what I'm supposed to do with. There's no way that's a frozen watch: the game applies sanctions if your crew level drops below half.

The worksheet seems to be doing everything properly, or rather, in keeping with the game rules. However, I am sorely, sorely tempted to impose a few changes.