Re: [TML] "Appropriate technology" and trade in Classic Traveller Craig Berry 30 Aug 2014 00:13 UTC
Tactics: High Guard, Trillion Credit Squadron, Brilliant Lances, Battle Rider Strategy: Imperium, Fifth Frontier War Just off the top of my head. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone direct me to an official TU publication that deals with space > warfare strategy, doctrine and tactics? > > Greg > > > On 29 August 2014 12:59, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Here are two ships built under High Guard - they are both 10kton jump-3 >> freighters, and one is built at TL12 and one at TL15. I've bolded the two >> important numbers. >> >> Ship: Lugger-12 >> Class: Lugger-12 >> Type: Cargo Ship >> Architect: Ian Whitchurch >> Tech Level: 12 >> >> USP >> AK-K53135A-070000-80009-0 MCr 5,537.493 10 KTons >> Bat Bear 3 1 1 Crew: 75 >> Bat 3 1 1 TL: 12 >> >> Cargo: 4,462 Crew Sections: 10 of 8 Fuel: 3,300 EP: 300 Agility: 1 >> Shipboard Security Detail: 10 >> Craft: 2 x 100T Type S scouts >> Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification >> Backups: 1 x Model/5 Computer >> >> Architects Fee: MCr 55.375 Cost in Quantity: MCr 4,429.995 >> >> Ship: Lugger-15 >> Class: Lugger-15 >> Type: Cargo Ship >> Architect: Andrea Vallance >> Tech Level: 15 >> >> USP >> AK-K53135A-070000-90009-0 MCr 3,737.490 10 KTons >> Bat Bear 3 1 1 Crew: 69 >> Bat 3 1 1 TL: 15 >> >> Cargo: 5,067 Crew Sections: 10 of 7 Fuel: 3,300 EP: 300 Agility: 1 >> Shipboard Security Detail: 10 >> Craft: 2 x 100T Type S scouts >> Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification >> Backups: 1 x Model/5 Computer >> >> Architects Fee: MCr 37.375 Cost in Quantity: MCr 2,989.992 >> >> At tech 12, you pay MCr 4430 to move 4462 dtons three parsecs at a time - >> roughly MCr1 per dton of cargo capacity. >> >> At tech 15, you pay MCr 2989 to move 5067 dtons three parsecs at a time - >> roughly MCr0.6 per dton of cargo capacity. >> >> TL15 is therefore roughly 50% more efficient at moving cargo than TL12. >> >> However, lets look at military starships - lets look at the minimum spend >> to shoehorn jump 3, 3G and 3 armor into a ship that mounts a type A Spinal >> PAW. >> >> Ship: Cruiser-12 >> Class: Gumshoe >> Type: Cruiser >> Architect: Ian Whitchurch >> Tech Level: 12 >> >> USP >> AK-L5336F4-371100-87A09-0 MCr 29,169.171 29 KTons >> Bat Bear 2 111 3 Crew: 268 >> Bat 3 111 4 TL: 12 >> >> Cargo: 196 Fuel: 10,440 EP: 1,740 Agility: 3 Shipboard Security Detail: 29 >> Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification >> Backups: 2 x Model/6fib Computers >> >> Architects Fee: MCr 291.692 Cost in Quantity: MCr 23,335.337 >> >> OK, call it roughly GCr23 at TL12. >> >> This is a ship with the same specs at TL15 (and Im aware a very small >> investment in a better computer - which in HG presumably includes the sensor >> package - will make a much better warship). >> >> Ship: Cruiser-15 >> Class: Gumshoe 15 >> Type: Cruiser >> Architect: Ian Whitchurch >> Tech Level: 15 >> >> USP >> AK-K5337F4-371100-97A09-0 MCr 13,010.600 17.5 KTons >> Bat Bear 3 111 4 Crew: 176 >> Bat 3 111 4 TL: 15 >> >> Cargo: 128 Fuel: 6,475 EP: 1,225 Agility: 3 Shipboard Security Detail: 18 >> Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops and On Board Fuel Purification >> Backups: 2 x Model/6fib Computers >> >> Architects Fee: MCr 130.106 Cost in Quantity: MCr 10,408.480 >> >> Call it roughly GCr10.5 at TL15. >> >> At TL15, military ships of the same specs are at least twice as effective >> than at TL12. >> >> Therefore, TL12 shipyards should build lower tech but good enough cargo >> ships, selling for enough Imperial Credits to buy the high-tech warships >> that TL15 shipyards will specialise in. >> >> In the Spinward Marches, that means Glisten and Rhylanor would build most >> warships, while civilian craft are more likely to come from lower-tech >> worlds like Regina, or are exported from the Sword Worlds. >> >> >> ----- >> The Traveller Mailing List >> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >> Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com >> To unsubscribe from this list please goto >> http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=JydxSB9tZc6TS63HiAHJcg6SAwighNGJ > > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=PltOdItWBSgOP4y0Q6abkGbDI1eus0lz -- Craig Berry (http://google.com/+CraigBerry) "Eternity is in love with the productions of time." - William Blake