Evyn replied to me: > 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.
Hello Evyn, my point is that frigates were built for ASuW, ASW and AAW, in different proportions, while the fast attack boats are almost exclusively ASuW units, and patrol ships like the Cyclone are designed to fight irregular, light forces. Comparing Cyclones with the other two is like comparing apples and oranges, or MBTs and IFVs. Frigates and fast attack boats both do ASuW, so they can be compared in that regard, but the comparison is slightly unfair because it ignores ASW, AAW, or endurance. Translating that into space, ASuW, ASW and AAW probably merge into one category, anti-space warfare. Possibly there will be a difference between combat against starships (from ASuW) and combat against small drones and missiles (from AAW), but that is a matter of degrees, not like the difference between water and air. So there would be the question if ten small anti-space ships can beat one ship which is ten times larger in a ship to ship fight (law enforcement or COIN doesn't count). > 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. The Albatros was designed to slug it out with larger vessels, to fight the Soviets in the Baltic or North Sea. Not just a matter of dropping in guns, or bolting on Exocet launchers, but also a question of sensors, of another five knots, or a point defense system with 21 RIM-116 missiles. > 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). Which one? SWO? > The question I keep forgetting to ask is how do these ships of yours deal > with planetary landings? Almost by definition, starships are TL10+ in 3E (4E is less rigid in that regard). Force screens are TL11+ in VXii. The minimum weight for TL11 force screens is 50 tons, so it is probably TL12 or higher. TL11 reactionless thrusters are more than enough to maneuver in an atmosphere, and TL12 has contragrav as well. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
