Recent content by phavoc

Ah, I think that's the magical distinction there. An airlock would not be the same as a hatch. Airlocks would/should include all the bells and whistles that one would expect. Whereas a hatch is just meant to let you in/out between vacuum and the pressurized inside of the ship. If you...

Agreed (on airtight door). I would expect any spaceship to have the ability to seal off corridors and evacuate the air using the environmental system. Aside from having massive redundancy needs, which most ships would not normally do, there isn't much of a reasonable need to have many...

Well, sure, technically it's true. If the ship had labs onboard you may have an airlock for those. You may have medical isolation airlocks, etc. But for the most part that's just a standard door with enhanced security. Or, if you have reinforced bulkheads, it's a door between sections. I...

Use common sense. Does it make sense for a 500 dton craft to have 5 airlocks? Each one is a breach in the hull and a possible risk. They are used to enter and exit, and if there is no need, then why have it? The rules are, at best, a guideline. The rest comes from the designer.

Can't say I agree with that. A depot may have shipyards, and not all shipyards are going to be privately held. It's quite possible for some planetary governments to have state-owned shipyards to build both naval and private vessels. There is nothing that would (or should) prevent such things...

Agreed. Depots are major fleet bases with significant construction and repair capabilities. However I'd think that while they may have that, they typically operate at lower capacity levels. They have no need to build 6 dreadnoughts at the same time, but with sufficient lead time they could...

Small craft will always have a place since you can only have one hull in one place at a time. Some polities will prefer manned fighters while others will not for various reasons. It's really not that big of a deal. In theory a robotic craft has many advantages over a crewed craft - but those...

What should be the purpose of a manned craft is that you have both a computer and a pilot / crew onboard. The pilot gives you flexibility that a program cannot. It gives you the ability to react to situations that a programmed response could not/would not be able to do. Sure, if your drones...

Anyone posting on the thread is posting their opinions - with no product in hand nobody has facts. It's a Kickstarter, so you may, or may not, get what you are paying for with your pre-buy. Like life it's a crapshoot. I dunno why the sniping of people who are not in the "take my money!"...

Well... I suppose it depends on how much one stepped back on the doctrinal discussion. While technology changed, the ships changed as well. WW1 didn't have much in the way of AA armament since aircraft weren't really a threat. As we see with the Repulse and Prince of Wales, without sufficient...

Sadly there just isn't enough information on battlecruisers to really have this argument. The reason for that was because they didn't have enough time to exist as a warship from the time they were designed to the time surface ships became irrelevant. The RN was the only navy that built and...

That was meant to be a specific response, not a generalized one. Expanding it to a generalized comment, cruisers can be deployed in many ways. They are essentially the first level of a 'capital' ship - in as much as their armor and armament set them apart from their smaller brethren. In a...

If deployed properly, a battlecruiser would be considered a screening element for the larger ships. And it would engage ships of it's same size in the enemy's screen while your battleline engaged theirs. Having battlecruisers engage their much larger counterparts has proven to be rather...

I agree with you concerning the tactics issue - force plans are governed by technology and the risks one encounters on a battlefield. That's been a norm for most of the history of warfare. Some are just better at recognizing such things than others. The question of fighters has been hotly...

The problem with this theoretical discussion is that we're comparing a mish-mash of versions of a game that didn't exactly have a firm foundation upon which to build it's tech bible upon to begin with. And it's also not a wargame, it's an RPG that got this stuff tacked on to it. As to...