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Starfire => Starfire Rules => Topic started by: Zume on August 07, 2007, 07:21:44 PM

Title: Small craft basing on planets.
Post by: Zume on August 07, 2007, 07:21:44 PM

What's the ratio of small craft/boat bay points for each hull space capacity at a space port?

Zume

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Post by: coldsteel on August 10, 2007, 08:22:26 AM

Nothing in UTM, have to check ISF. I'd go with 3 BbP per HS for capacity just due to BbS/M/L sizes.

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Post by: Steve Walmsley on August 13, 2007, 08:37:10 AM

Can't find anything specific in the Unified Rules. However, a large boat bay requires three hull spaces and has a capacity of 6, which is 2 boat bay points per HS. It would seems reasonable to apply the same logic to spaceports. However, that isn't entirely straightforward as a spaceport is 30 HS but can somehow handle 40 HS of ships. Nevertheless the 2 boat bays points per HS seems the most straightforward, which gives each SP the capability of handling 80 BBPs worrth of small craft

Steve

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Post by: coldsteel on August 13, 2007, 07:59:20 PM

ISW4 module doesn't help...

Damned Galumpher-class PDC has 50 (SP) for 2000HS capacity, but they have 800 GB and 200 ast2.

Title: Re: Small craft basing on planets.
Post by: Kurt on August 13, 2007, 10:32:08 PM

Quote from: "Zume"

What's the ratio of small craft/boat bay points for each hull space capacity at a space port?

Zume

According to ISW4, page 7, 27.14.06.8, gunboats can land at spaceports, where they use 3 hull spaces each (out of the spaceport's 40 hull space capacity).  

This section doesn't mention smallcraft, but if it was me, I'd give spaceports capacity equal to boat bays, i.e., two points per hull space.  This means that a single spaceport module would have eighty points and could house forty cutters, twenty shuttles, or thirteen pinnaces or gunboats.  

Kurt