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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Ships fought in a line for reasons. During the age of sail cannons were direct-fire and you had almost zero ability to shoot at anything...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Insofar as USN designs went, I think it's safe to say the South Dakota and Iowa classes are true battleships, while the Alaska class was...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Depends in the era. The US built 'light' South Dakota class battleships, and then built the follow-on Iowa class. South Dakota class was...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    You want to talk about being sold a fake bill of Dreadnought goods... I bought Massie's Dreadnought thinking it was going to be over...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Ya beat me to it... For those interested in NOT doing their own research on this... HMS Dreadnaught, when launched, immediately...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Highport Stats/Specs.
    The books don't lend a lot of layered sophistication to orbital infrastructure. Grav technology fundamentally changes everything about...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Battleships.
    Other sci-fi series or settings follows what's been mentioned by a few above. First you have battleships as a class, then dreadnoughts...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Highport Stats/Specs.
    Unless the highport is totally unarmed and without any protection whatsoever, the PC's will fail if trying to do it with a ship. Now...
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    phavoc reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread Imperial Battleships with Like Like.
    The history of the terms ship of the line and rating system are well worth studying.
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    phavoc reacted to swordtart's post in the thread Single System games with Like Like.
    As has been noted in thread about lifters grav that can lift need not be effective for horizontal thrust (i.e. perpendicular to...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Military ships and crew.
    Yeah, I can see the conversation between us is going nowhere. There's no point in continuing to discuss this topic as you are stating...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Lifters: The Other Landing Gear?.
    I think dropping to a lower orbit requires you to slow down, not speed up. Once you hit a lower orbit you start encountering the...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Military ships and crew.
    Barracks are suitable as temporary berthing space. A marine assigned to a ship for a 6 month deployment of said ship would be...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Lifters: The Other Landing Gear?.
    We know that you can use anti-grav belts to move and not just levitate. And air/rafts and other grav vehicles are able to both lift and...
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    phavoc reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Lifters: The Other Landing Gear? with Like Like.
    Well, they haven't been given stats in MgT2e. In T:NE, lifters did not provide any thrust. They just negate gravity, so the thrust you...
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