--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Tracy Ratcliff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had an article in Pyramid 2,
> "Airships Buyers Guide for 1922." I had a
> historical sources a couple of dozen airship proposals with
> air speeds
> listed, from which I created VE 3e spreadsheets. It's taken
> me a couple of
> days to find my notes and reconstruct my thinking.
Found the article. I remembered reading it at the time but since it was for 4e
didn't do much with it.
> I did some partial spreadsheets for the Hindenburg and
> Akron, the ".85 of
> radical streamlining" rule of thumb works there too.
Year, the actual streamlining level seems to be between Excellent and Radical.
> With the price multiplier for radical streamlining (and
> excellent
> streamlining for the one Goodyear design), the prices
> worked out to roughly
> correct for 1922 $US.
If a VE2 price for a vehicle comes out the same as the historical price, I'd
consider that more of a happy coincidence ;)
> One thing that is totally broken with airships and VE 3e is
> the crew rules.
Riggers seem to be, by far, the largest part of the crew except on the smallest
airships.
Brandon
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