Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
I am really trying to understand the writer's/developers intent with the deck plans that are at scales greater than .5 ton=1.5m Square.
Please no "do you what you like, it's your game" answers. Those are the most useless comments in the forum because they assume we somehow didn't actually realize we can do what we want with our game. Yes, I know I can do what I want in my game. (and when I say "ton", yes I know it is a displacement ton)
House rule recommendations are fine and give different ideas on how to proceed but with this question, I am actually wondering what the author intention was and hope folk from that team might see this and chime in, or players who think they get the intent and want to clarify it for me.
Now, I realize that deck plans are an imperfect creation process for the game. They are more art form than rigid procedure. That is fine. I am just not getting the thought some of these were made with. I am not looking for a rigid, ratio of Tons to Squares and that if I see that it is one square of volume off versus the specs for the ship, I'm gonna have a problem, but I was hoping to understand some sort of ballpark.
Taking the Azhanti Frontier Cruiser. Scale is 1 Square = 50 tons. HG22 p260.
I see 12 deck plans of different configurations.
In the original GDW boxed deck plan set there were about 14 deck plans if I remember, but all were at the .5 ton=1 square. Now, 14 pages of deck plans was just to show the different TYPES of decks. There were actually I think about 70+ decks total on these monsters. You had a listing of how many of each of the 14 decks in the booklet.
Now looking at it, I see the 12 decks but no indication that there are any other decks besides these contained within the map itself. So looking at deck 11 for example, I see an area where staterooms were allocated (#18). I get that the little bed symbol does not indicate one set of bunkbeds but rather this is an entire warren of staterooms? What I don't get is how many decks does this deck 12 actually equal. I mean, it must be more decks, right? Or does the ceiling of this one deck with state rooms go up 100 times higher than a normal .5 ton/square map? Is this 100 decks of the same floor plan? I say 100 because 50/.5=100.
I am not just trying to make sense of just this one cruiser but all the ones that have > .5ton/square scales.
My hope is if I can make sense of the creators intent, I can make intelligent use of the deck plans as is. If I cannot, then this part of the content is waisted on me because the questions asked would be greater than questions answered by these plans.
Please no "do you what you like, it's your game" answers. Those are the most useless comments in the forum because they assume we somehow didn't actually realize we can do what we want with our game. Yes, I know I can do what I want in my game. (and when I say "ton", yes I know it is a displacement ton)
House rule recommendations are fine and give different ideas on how to proceed but with this question, I am actually wondering what the author intention was and hope folk from that team might see this and chime in, or players who think they get the intent and want to clarify it for me.
Now, I realize that deck plans are an imperfect creation process for the game. They are more art form than rigid procedure. That is fine. I am just not getting the thought some of these were made with. I am not looking for a rigid, ratio of Tons to Squares and that if I see that it is one square of volume off versus the specs for the ship, I'm gonna have a problem, but I was hoping to understand some sort of ballpark.
Taking the Azhanti Frontier Cruiser. Scale is 1 Square = 50 tons. HG22 p260.
I see 12 deck plans of different configurations.
In the original GDW boxed deck plan set there were about 14 deck plans if I remember, but all were at the .5 ton=1 square. Now, 14 pages of deck plans was just to show the different TYPES of decks. There were actually I think about 70+ decks total on these monsters. You had a listing of how many of each of the 14 decks in the booklet.
Now looking at it, I see the 12 decks but no indication that there are any other decks besides these contained within the map itself. So looking at deck 11 for example, I see an area where staterooms were allocated (#18). I get that the little bed symbol does not indicate one set of bunkbeds but rather this is an entire warren of staterooms? What I don't get is how many decks does this deck 12 actually equal. I mean, it must be more decks, right? Or does the ceiling of this one deck with state rooms go up 100 times higher than a normal .5 ton/square map? Is this 100 decks of the same floor plan? I say 100 because 50/.5=100.
I am not just trying to make sense of just this one cruiser but all the ones that have > .5ton/square scales.
My hope is if I can make sense of the creators intent, I can make intelligent use of the deck plans as is. If I cannot, then this part of the content is waisted on me because the questions asked would be greater than questions answered by these plans.
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