Military ships and crew

[Terry Mixon]

What has that got to do with anything I represented? I am well aware that the dt is 14 m³.

Side question. Is it 14m³ or 13.5m³? I can't seem to get in my head which is correct.

Edit: I guess it's roughly 14m³ and exactly 13.5m³ for those that want precision.



Edit 2: Or maybe it's always 14m³?

 

[Sigtrygg]

Mongoose core rules and High Guard define it as 14 cubic metres - the approximate volume of 1000kg of liquid hydrogen.

For some inexplicable reason MegaTraveller and a couple of other iterations adopted the deck plan cube as the standard, 1.5x1.5x1.5, which makes no sense if a displacement ton is meant to be the volume of 1000kg of liquid hydrogen. Before Mr Pedant joins in I am well aware that it is usual to actually stack two cubes for a 1.5x1.5x3 "square"

Why in this day and age of spreadsheets and the like the cubic metre as the standard for volume can't be used is a mystery.

 

[Talon Greyfeather]

Love this you have according to Sigtrygg 10 people in 3 staterooms that’s if the captain have his own. I’d like to see the tonnage breakdown since I’m willing to bet that gunners at the minimum are in the barracks and the common areas are way under sized. It should have 14dt not 4dt that’s one thing that I think also need to be changed you must have on a military ship common areas equal to 1/5 of the quarters and barracks at the minimum. What book is this from?

Traders and Gunboats - pg 56-57

 

[MarcusIII]

Why in this day and age of spreadsheets and the like the cubic metre as the standard for volume can't be used is a mystery.

It would be easy. Like when I'm trying to get the approx size of spherical ship I wish everything was in Cubic Meters so I didn't have to translate between that and 14 cubic meter dTons