Hi Jeff,

If I was to do one then it would look a lot like MT :) so that's probably
not the best indorsement.

Basically when your looking at a ship you want you need for gameplay:
	how fast is it?
	what jump does it do?
	how much does it cost?
	How many crew it needs
	How it can attack
	How it can defend
	How much fuel you need to pay for
Etc.

Everything else is additional really. You don't need to know how much each
component cost (really), you don't need to know how big each component is
(really), you don't need to know how much each component draws in energy or
how much it weighs.

So you could strip the worksheet down to just the constituent parts

Craft:
Hull:
Drives:
Power:
Fuel:
Sensors:
Weapons:
Defences:
Computer:
Accommodations:
Compartments:
Accessories:
Crew:
Caried Craft:

And then fill them in without the additional fluff i.e. don't put jump field
= none, because it's not there. If there is a jump field then put it in, and
the mission qualifier type stuff is

Craft:			Colony Class System Defence Boat, TL10, MCr 346.6
Hull:			1,000 tons, Streamlined, Plate, Submerged, Landing
Legs with Pads, Lifters
Armour:		AV 70, BF 700, Pen 70, EMP 160, Rad 1600, Heat 8000, Pres
700, Burn 7000, Trac 0
Coating (this might be unnecessary if the above covers it for combat):
			Ablat	Layer 1: Standard Dense, Anti-Blast
				Layer 2: Standard Dense, Anti-Rad
				Layer 3: Standard Dense, Anti-EMP
				Layers 4-7: Standard Dense
Drives:			Manoeuvre 3 Model H2
Power:			Fusion 3 Model L2 2,200 EP
Fuel:			Hydrogen Tank - 80 tons, Ice Bin and Purifier, Water
Intake and Purifier
Sensors:		Communicator-10 Std DS Ant, Scope-10 Std LR Ant,
Neutrino Detector-10 Std AR Ant,
			Radar-10 Std LR Ant, Jammer-10 Std FO Ant,
Densitometer-10 Std VD Surf
Weapons:		Large Bay Missile-10 Imp DS LBay
			Beam Laser-10 Std VD T3 x2
			SandCaster-10 Imp VD T3 x2
Defences:		Nuclear Damper-10 Ear D T3
Computer:		Standard Model 2 bis
Accommodations:	Commons, Standard Stateroom, Standard Suite x5, Double
Stateroom x3, Spacer Niche x8,
			Common Fresher, Shared Fresher x4, Med Console,
Counsellor, Clinic, Medical Low Berth x2
			Emergency Capsule x3, Troop Barracks=Squad,
Long-Term Life Support
Compartments:		Bridge, Aux Control, Engineering, Flight Ops,
Support Office, Captain's Office, Wardroom,
			Galley/Enlisted Mess, Brig, EVA Locker x2, Ship's
Locker, Armory
			Cargo=57.5 tons
			Hanger=30 Tons; Subcraft=20 Ton Launch
Accesses:		Personnel Air Lock x2

Crew:					Officer	PO	Ratings
			Command 	6 	1 	1
			Medical 	1
			Gunnery		2	1
			Engineering	1	1	3
			Flight Ops 	2	1	1
			Support 	1		2
			Ship's Troops	1	1	4

The Coating and layers for the armour is probably not necessary if it's
detailed in the armour numbers. The -10 after the sensors, weapons and
defences is probably not necessary (you would put -11 after them if they
were TL11 on a TL10 ship) so:

Craft:			Colony Class System Defence Boat, TL10, MCr 346.6
Hull:			1,000 tons, Streamlined, Plate, Submerged, Landing
Legs with Pads, Lifters
Armour:		AV 70, BF 700, Pen 70, EMP 160, Rad 1600, Heat 8000, Pres
700, Burn 7000, Trac 0
Drives:			Manoeuvre 3 Model H2
Power:			Fusion 3 Model L2 2,200 EP
Fuel:			Hydrogen Tank 80 tons, Ice Bin and Purifier, Water
Intake and Purifier
Sensors:		Communicator Std DS Ant, Scope Std LR Ant, Neutrino
Detector Std AR Ant,
			Radar Std LR Ant, Jammer Std FO Ant, Densitometer
Std VD Surf
Weapons:		Large Bay Missile Imp DS LBay
			Beam Laser Std VD T3 x2
			SandCaster Imp VD T3 x2
Defences:		Nuclear Damper Ear D T3
Computer:		Standard Model 2 bis
Accommodations:	Commons, Standard Stateroom, Standard Suite x5, Double
Stateroom x3, Spacer Niche x8,
			Common Fresher, Shared Fresher x4, Med Console,
Counsellor, Clinic, Medical Low Berth x2
			Emergency Capsule x3, Troop Barracks=Squad,
Long-Term Life Support
Compartments:		Bridge, Aux Control, Engineering, Flight Ops,
Support Office, Captain's Office, Wardroom,
			Galley/Enlisted Mess, Brig, EVA Locker x2, Ship's
Locker, Armory
			Cargo=57.5 tons
			Hanger=30 Tons; Subcraft=20 Ton Launch
Accesses:		Personnel Air Lock X2

Crew:					Officer	PO	Rating
			Command 	6 	1 	1
			Medical 	1
			Gunnery		2	1
			Engineering	1	1	3
			Flight Ops 	2	1	1
			Support 	1		2
			Ship's Troops	1	1	4

Others may wish to comment.

Best regards,

Ewan

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxx@simplelists.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Jeff Zeitlin
Sent: 10 May 2021 19:20
To: The Traveller Mailing List <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Subject: [TML] Needed: Alternate presentation for T5 ships

The Caladbolg System Defense Force in the most recent issue is actually the
first set of ship designs that Freelance Traveller has printed for
Traveller5. A perusal of both the single-volume edition of T5 and the
three-book boxed set doesn't reveal an "official" compact format for ship
data, and the format that was printed is ... suboptimal*. So...

What I'd like - quickly; I'd like to reformat the Caladbolg ships for the
web version of the article - is a more compact - or at least more tabular -
format for presenting ship specs. I won't object if the result is a good
summary format followed by a detail "worksheet"

The USP from Classic _High Guard_ is a little _too_ compact; you don't have
to reduce it that far. MegaTraveller and Mongoose (both editions) Traveller
are both reasonable, but recall that T5 allows for more detail than either
(that's why I'll take a "basic" datasheet plus detail/worksheet).

(Remember that some of us don't support HTML or fancy formatting and use
fixed-pitch fonts for reading email. Because of that, using Markdown/
CommonMark/Github-flavored-Markdown is recommended. If you send it directly
to me, I can take "raw" html, but make sure that you don't _send_ it as MIME
type text/html; if you send it as text/plain, I'll be able to cutpaste the
html.)

(*Part of the problem is that the format as printed in FT was too dependent
on fixed-pitch fonts and tabs, rather than being a true table, and when I
started fussing with fonts and sizes... I missed a couple of places where
they didn't quite line up as intended. I want a format where I can avoid
that.)

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