So, time for ship comments.
The Sword Worlds have a very different ship design philosophy than the Imperium, and the book does a great job showing this in the provided ships.
Ordnance pods and heavy ordnance are creative and welcome additions to the High Guard weapons roster, just a shame that none of the example ships use them...
P.109 Ordnance pods. Text says torpedoes take two spaces, should probably be three. Example loadouts mentions up to two torpedoes, not three. P.111 says three spaces per torpedo, which would agree with two per pod.
I love the standardized docking system!
Surprised to see that the various small craft have standard hulls rather than streamlined, but standard can handle atmospheric flight too, of course.
I’d say the small craft cargo holds needs some form of access hatches, can’t drag all cargo through the cockpit...
The gunboats are packing some serious firepower - in surprisingly long-ranged hulls thanks to the use of standardized docking systems!
P.128 is missing numbers on the deckplan.
The Saukko quickly become something of a personal favorite! It could benefit from some form of small craft or vehicle, but there’s not really anything I’d wanna replace for it... A vehicle could be held in the cargo bay, but the airlock looks a bit tight for deployment... Perhaps a larger cargo hatch to them side? Or a rear-facing hatch from the lower common area, enabling it to be used as a makeshift garage?
The Saukko along with the description for how the Confederation patrol operate kinda got me thinking about the TV show Agents of SHIELD, in a good way!
The Havmanden shows that long range doesn’t have to mean high-jump. A generous amount of living space, repair drones and workshop are ways to increase mission duration.
There seems to be a room or space with a workstation above the airlock, is this an unmarked cargo office? Also, the Havmanden really ought to have cargo hatches, it’s gonna take forever to load that cavernous bay through a small airlock - not to mention severely limit the size of cargo containers!
P.144 The Glenten looks like a very useful design, but recommended crew seems off, plus the tonnage for standardized docking system is way off! Looks more like regular docking space..?
P.146 “its armament - and indeed whole design – is built around a pair of fusion gun bays.”
Stat block on the next page only has one bay.
P.147 standardized docking systems one again way off.
Other than that, the Ornen looks like a wonderfully aggressive ship, kinda like a bigger, meaner version of the imperial Midu Agasham!
I immediately fell madly, deeply in love with the Byrding! If this is the main ship in the Skandersvik campaign you can consider one copy of that book already sold
If possible, it’d be great with some artwork showing it with all standardized docking system ports filled with shuttles, like Ahvens...
Ah, finally the Denisov, showing that even a primitive and small empire can have muscles on a sector fleet scale! Impressive beast!
