Monitor Design

[sonofliberty (OP)]

I need to hold a jump point against 2 hostile races. They are apparently also hostile to each other. I am thinking 2 of these on my side of the jump point. Thoughts?

Long Beach class Monitor    25,700 tons     665 Crew     6129.5 BP      TCS 514  TH 600  EM 750
1167 km/s     Armour 12-77     Shields 25-300     Sensors 55/220/0/0     Damage Control Rating 20     PPV 120
Maint Life 5.05 Years     MSP 4981    AFR 264%    IFR 3.7%    1YR 326    5YR 4887    Max Repair 900 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 60 months    Spare Berths 0   

300 EP Magnetic Fusion Drive (2)    Power 300    Fuel Use 70.98%    Signature 300    Exp 12%
Fuel Capacity 5,050,000 Litres    Range 49.8 billion km   (494 days at full power)
Delta R300/300 Shields (10)   Total Fuel Cost  125 Litres per hour  (3,000 per day)

20cm C5 Ultraviolet Laser (10)    Range 160,000km     TS: 6250 km/s     Power 10-5     RM 4    ROF 10        10 10 10 10 8 6 5 5 4 4
Gauss Cannon R3-100 (10x3)    Range 30,000km     TS: 6250 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 100%     RM 3    ROF 5        1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CIWS-250 (4x6)    Range 1000 km     TS: 25000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Fire Control S02 80-6250 (6)    Max Range: 160,000 km   TS: 6250 km/s     94 88 81 75 69 62 56 50 44 38
Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (4)     Total Power Output 80    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR147-R20 (1)     GPS 6000     Range 147.6m km    Resolution 20
LookingGlassActive Search Sensor MR766-R60 (1)     GPS 54000     Range 766.9m km    Resolution 60
Thermal Sensor TH5-55 (1)     Sensitivity 55     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  55m km
EM Detection Sensor EM20-220 (1)     Sensitivity 220     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  220m km

ECCM-5 (5)         ECM 50

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

[Brian Neumann]

Two thoughts come to mind.  Your shield strength is probably either to low or to high.  If you are running these things with the shields always on you are going to be burning through a lot of fuel.  If they are not always on then by the time they get charged up the battle is probably going to be over.  Your shields when they are turned on have a strength of 0 and increase in a linear fashion till thier full strength.  In you case that is 300 seconds.  For a point blank shootout at a jump point that is practically eternity. 

The second point is that you have no high speed beam fire control for point defense work.  The CIWS have thier own built in, but it can not be shared with anybody else.  Either turret mount the standard gauss cannon and put in a matching fire control or remove the system completly.  If you remove the system completely I would actually recommend putting it all into shields.  By doing so you would end up with almost 3 times the max shield strength, and your recharge rate would be giving you 1 to 2 points of shields every 5 seconds.  While not great it would at least make them usefull.  A second option to the shields would be to put in turretured 10 or 12cm lasers and thier fire control.  This would give you a dual purpose weapon.  Even 10cm lasers would have 4 times the range, and would be doing equal damage to what the gauss cannon were doing at point blank range.

Brian

[sonofliberty (OP)]

Great points, thanks