A fact that will surely be uncovered by the Review Board that follows the worse-than-expected performance of the Navy after the next Big War.

In the meantime, we have some evry frustrated small-ship captains, trying to do what they can with grossly inadequate resources ... how big was the East Indies Station in the time of Dreadnought, anyway ?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Craig Berry <cdberry@gmail.com> wrote:
If your big ships aren't out patrolling, doing war games, and the like in peacetime, nobody will know how to run them in wartime. That will be a Bad Thing.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Ian Whitchurch <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> wrote:
T]IMO the best way to do a Small Ship Universe is to have 95% of naval budgets consumed by monsters that have nothing to do but sit at naval depots until the Big War.

Once we spend our hypothetical naval budget on a dozen Chevalier Sans Peurs (90kton battlewagon), then we need a couple of dozen Chevalier Sans Reproach (22.5kton battlecruisers) to keep an eye on them, and then of course they need light cruisers to escort them, and then the budget is all gone so the Patrol Force is trying to make do with a dozen frigates and some contracted Auxiliary Carriers ....

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Evyn MacDude <evyn.macdude@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok I have to admit i too am a fan of the Small Ship Universe for
Traveller. One of the big things that I have been playing with is
treating Main World Population as the entire systems population and
spread out the in system population centers, thus system to system
trade is spread out over a larger territory in destination systems.

In a mechanical note my starship range is from 100 to 10,000 tons
driven by "Standard" drives using the Drive letter code limited by
tech level as presented by the little black books. Hull "strength" is
directly relational to the cube root of displacement. Thus smaller
hulls are more robust than larger ones, also this allows for smaller
navel units.

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