On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 22:30, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a ship the size of a Cyclone, perhaps with a > slightly smaller crew, which can fight a roughly equal weight > of any other warship class. > > In ab open ocean battle between 100 Cyclones (33,100 tons) and > 8 Oliver Hazard Perrys (32,800 tons), I would expect the light > ships to get wiped out. Eight frigates have more than enough > SM-1 to sink the patrol ships way beyond the range of the 25mm > guns on those ships. >
With a Perry!?!.... Oh I went and looked they where sometimes armed with Harpoon, Forgot that Sm-1 was a pretty effective anti-air missile, that could be pressed into anti-shipping, but had a huge tendency to lose it in the near surface chop. As their main role was ASW and Fleet Air Defense each Perry didn't carry more than a Handful. To be honest the Deck gun is probably the most effective offensive weapon. > In fact, ten Cyclones (3,310 tons) would also be wiped out by > eight Albatros fast attack craft (3,814 tons), because those > fast attack craft would have 32 Exocets and 16 3' guns between > them. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatros_class_fast_attack_craft > > Sending 100 Albatros (39,800 tons) against ten Oliver Hazard > Perry (41,000 tons) might be more what I had in mind -- the > frigates are individually much more capable, but the smaller > fast attack boats would have a realistic chance to damage a > frigate, and numbers on their size. Looking at the Albatros and the Cyclone they are both basically the same boat. Their guns are drop in mounts, and the harpoon launchers are just bolt on deck mounts.... To be honest I went with the Cyclone as it is Coastal patrol/Special operations delivery ship equipped for both littoral and shore action. To be honest most of my service was in the brown water navy, so I tend to think in those terms, no mater that I own a Surface Warfare Badge (the things you do sitting in the middle of the Indian Ocean with no Strict daily duties). The question I keep forgetting to ask is how do these ships of yours deal with planetary landings? -- Evyn _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
