Abrigon wrote: > Balloon barge c.1863 > Or Babylon 5 or starship troopers?
I will concentrate on wet-navy aircraft carriers. Others are different enough to make comparisons meaningless. Hal wrote: > Is the ship built such that its magazines are better protected than its > other areas? Depends on the model -- UK armored carriers vs. US high-capacity carriers. > How many hits have any of these carriers taken in battle historically, and > how did they fare afterwards? Casablanca: five lost; one to a sub, one to surface gunfire, three to kamikaze. Independence: one lost to a single aircraft bomb and subsequent fire. Illustrious: none lost. Essex: none lost. Taiho: lost to a sub. Rupert replied to Hal: > > You left out Kamakazi attacks as well. >From a damage-control viewpoint, you could see kamikaze planes as a crude form of operator-guided cruise missile. The use of a living pilot rather than radio control makes an operational and moral difference, but none for the explosive effects ... > Historically kamakazi attacks tended to not penetrate if they hit the > flight deck, and just make a mess. The impact was very much non-armor-piercing. > The main cause of carriers sinking after only a few > hits are 'fluke' hits (i.e. criticals), or of fuel and munitions > catching fire. And many crits would translate into fires. > The munitions are usually well-protected unless they're > on aircraft in the hanger or on deck (i.e. the carrier is hit during > flight ops). However, the fuel tanks are large and can only be protected > so well and aircraft fuel, unlike fuel oil, burns easily. The advanced damage system on VE182 has fuel hits on a 3 or 12. Weaponry is a 10, but that would be the AA guns of the carrier. On the VE184 crit table, fuel is 16 and ammo is 18. So unless the GM calls the aircraft ammo "cargo", it is pretty safe. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
