Eamon--
I'm a big fan of calibration points as well, having filled RSB with them.
I'm sure Franklin did his homework and came up with a good solution.
Bottom line is everything is always a mix of several complementary
capabilities. Inflight refueling, drop tanks, islands in the middle of the
ocean, carriers as lily-pads.
By the way, Franklin, if you read this, I'll try to remember to go to BARD
and have a look.
Dave
> I think Franklin Cain had an alternate solution at BARD, X-Boat
> Tender-enabled 'calibration points' in the RC, but drop tanks might be
> more economic for getting ships to a permanent station.
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> Eamon
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Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 0:30
Subject: Re: Ships that don't work (was Re: [Traveller_TNE] Clippers and
> Tigresses and spheres, oh my!)
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> BUT, I've always been a big fan of drop tanks. The RC is very
> expeditionary-minded, they would work it out.
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>> Yeah, the idea was that some parts of ship fabrication were more tightly
>> constrained than others ("A starport" stuff), and that was the base
>> spine
>> for the Clippers. The building out from there could be more widely
>> farmed
>> out ("B starport" stuff). But never as easy as on the PPT slides when
>> they
>> came up with the idea. JSF. FCS. ALMS. Crusader. MBT-70. LCS.
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>>> Reminds me of the the streamlined Fusilier and Lancer Classes from PoT
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>>> designer time (in game terms) saved by basing them on the Aurora
>>> Clipper
>>> spine, but massive engineering redesigns needed because the streamlined
>>> configurations necessitated a tripling of tonnage.
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>>> It's kind of like the Ticonderoga Cruisers, which were based on the
>>> Sprucans (~8000 tons), coming out at 24,000 tons instead of the approx
>>> 10,000 tons they actually did.
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>>> I also reckoned, that once the Solee War got going, certain Centrists
>>> would get panned for limiting these RCN Destroyers to J-2 - making for
>>> an
>>> arduous trip to the frontlines from Aubaine.
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>>> Eamon
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