Tonnage vs Firepower, how do people feel about this in terms of classifying ships. Looking at my recent Resistance Dreadnought kit build – I am rather confused. In terms of tonnage these ships are rocking in at least battle-cruiser class, but not in firepower. Yet they are of a purpose – colonization…
Massively bulky ships delivering colonists and their cargo to remote locations.
What do you think?
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Classifications like that only really apply to military ships. A civilian ship like a colonizer need their own system. E.g. military ships go from frigate to battle ship, civilian ships go from light commercial to bulk mega-hauler.
Yeah, I guess I am thinking more in terms of point allocation game-wise. Colonizers are big ships with lots of space given over to accommodations, but that does not mean they are more structurally robust than a battleship that is optimized for structural integrity. Moreover, you can strap a lot of guns on a colonizer, but that doesn’t compare to the fire control systems you will have on a proper battleship.
In that case it depends on the rule system. For a game that is purely ship to ship combat it is probably easiest to treat a civilian ship the same as a military ship two or three classes smaller. E.g. a battle-ship sized civilian ship has the durability, cost and firepower of a cruiser or light-cruiser sized military ship, but retains the manoeuvrability of a battleship. If the game has non-ship to ship combat elements though, such as there being an advantage to having extra storage capacity or science labs, then the civilian ship might still be pointed higher. Dropfleet… Read more »
That’s a good point. Obviously a colonizer is going to have the capacity to drop a lot of people to the surface. Clearly they will mostly not be combat troops, but perhaps the sheer volume of people landing would be equivalent in game terms.
To be honest conscripting all the colonists and throwing them into a combat zone wasn’t exactly what I meant. I was thinking more along the lines of the colonizer being commandeered and loaded with troops before the battle. Or perhaps the colonizer has advanced planetary surveying equipment that could help in a planetary invasion, or it contains lots of pre-fabricated buildings that can be re-purposed as fortifications.