On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:43:15AM +0100, Onno Meyer wrote: >That being said, the rules gloss over the real difficulty of a sub with a >flight deck. It should be possible. Going larger gives a better drag to >size ratio, which allows relatively smaller engines and batteries and >hence more payload. The rules don't require a conning fin, either, >or seaquest-style boats would be impossible.
My vision for this starts with a non-cylindrical pressure hull (it might be two cylinders side by side, or just one big box) with the flight deck on top. Conning tower (and flight ops) off to one side above the flight deck. Two parallel "runway" spaces, no catapults (hydraulic and rocket ones were available but experimental). Aircraft lifts at the stern. This is basically a sneak attack weapon. It gets in close to the target, launches all its aircraft (which is a challenge, given that it can't get them all onto the deck before they start flying), submerges while the raid is in progress, recovers the aircraft when they return (possibly landing over the bows if they're light enough), and sneaks away again. It doesn't seem to make any sort of military sense in other roles. In the context of Crimson Skies, the British Empire is building it basically to show off... Roger _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
