Johannes replied to me: > If it's mission is to fight rouge civilian ships, lightly armed might be > enough. The question just would be if such a ship would have the right > size to be converted in a tramp freighter.
Hello Johannes, say I have a freighter design with empty weight 10,000 tons and loaded weight 30,000 tons. Now put the same engines and power plants into a smaller hull, and use the weight saving from that for a few guns. Empty weight just under 10,000 tons, loaded weight 10,000 tons, and the same power to weight ratio as a freighter running light. But surplus ships of this model wouldn't be useful as freighters, to little payload space. > Otherwise maybe you can come up with assumption about FTL scanning and > communications, where a fleet of destroyers might catch freighters with > drive hunt tactics. (Which would mean you need more destroyers, which > again is good in context of the tramp freighter orign thread) I believe this requires a warp drive and long-range FTL weapons. > Depending on FTL scanning assumptions propably destroyers could be used > similiar to submarines. Hang about traderoutes, attack passing freighters > and civilian ships, run when a warship is sighted. Commerce raiders, not destroyers. Historically, the best raiders were converted merchantmen. Warships are just too noteworthy. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
