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MAD-4A

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Fleet Composition
« on: March 08, 2017, 12:30:42 PM »
Fleet Composition

Long (very :'( ) Long Ago, in this Galaxy, when I first got my 2750 book, I looked through it and there were 3 ships I really wanted. I formed my unit based on these 3 ship types. When I first found the IWM minis I began collecting but never quite got all the ones I wanted. UNTIL YESTERSDAY!!! :) I finally got the last member of my original group;

1) 1x Texas Class Battleship (flagship – of-course – first one I got)
2) 3x Lola Class destroyers (escorts – just love the 4 massive engines)
3) 1x Potemkin Class Troop Cruiser (Just fantastic stats – 25 docking rings! – and the original bow is just cool). Finally!

I have others I got in trades but weren’t part of my original fleet.
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Re: Fleet Composition
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2017, 12:34:03 PM »
Nice little fleet plenty range
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Really, as long as there is an unbroken line of people calling themselves "Clan Nova Cat," it doesn't really matter to me if they're still using Iron Wombs or not. They may be dead as a faction, but as a people they still exist. It's not uncommon in the real world, after all.

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Re: Fleet Composition
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2017, 03:25:10 PM »
I never managed to understand how I should group Warships.
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Re: Fleet Composition
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2017, 08:09:18 PM »
The Star League Field Manual has lots of WarShip layouts in it

IIRC they had so many ships essentially they had groups of Battleships together (several McKennas together is a thought), groups of destroyers, cruisers just because they could essentially the idea being an enemy can't cut them all down

if you're limited in numbers I'd say a main ship example a Battleship with several escort ships immediately nearby and then DropShips and fighter further out.  If you have a single WarShip then your surrounding in DropShips that can help defend it then fighters that can.
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Quote from: ColBosch on March 15, 2015, 05:35:30 PM

Really, as long as there is an unbroken line of people calling themselves "Clan Nova Cat," it doesn't really matter to me if they're still using Iron Wombs or not. They may be dead as a faction, but as a people they still exist. It's not uncommon in the real world, after all.

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Re: Fleet Composition
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2017, 09:32:01 AM »
Quote from: Ice Hellion on March 08, 2017, 03:25:10 PM
I never managed to understand how I should group Warships.

hmm. I didn't think of them when I was making my TO&Es; ( https://www.ourbattletech.com/forum/index.php?topic=3228.msg41394#msg41394 )
In BT terms, I'm an old-timer and don't consider warships as a normal unit, it's something special that - if it shows up - EVERYBODY runs! Even the Clans (basically mobile bases for them) - So I didn't consider them having regular TO&Es but in the SL era they would have.

Quote from: Dragon Cat on March 08, 2017, 08:09:18 PM
The Star League Field Manual has lots of WarShip layouts in it
  That's something I've been trying to get but haven't been able to yet.


Quote from: Dragon Cat on March 08, 2017, 08:09:18 PM
IIRC they had so many ships essentially they had groups of Battleships together (several McKennas together is a thought), groups of destroyers, cruisers just because they could essentially the idea being an enemy can't cut them all down

if you're limited in numbers I'd say a main ship example a Battleship with several escort ships immediately nearby and then DropShips and fighter further out.  If you have a single WarShip then your surrounding in DropShips that can help defend it then fighters that can.
I was just thinking in terms of RL ( https://www.ourbattletech.com/forum/index.php?topic=3225.msg41436#msg41436 )  Leviathan has ships grouped into 'Battle Squadrons' which (usually) contain 1 Battleship (as the centerpiece), 2 Cruisers (which both serve as heavy escorts and light Proxies in lesser situations where a ship is needed but not a Battleship), a Frigate (Larger that a DD in RL - as an escort leader - think British DDL), and 3-5 Destroyers as light escorts. They have carriers but they come in all sizes (according to the design rules and background fluff but they only published 1 BBCV and 1 FFCV for each side and no CACVs at all - several DDCVs though. Like BT almost all ships carried some fighters though.) They do mention in the fluff about Battlelines (which I take to be groups of Battle Squadrons with the BBs acting together and pooling their escorts - more like WWII  than WWI) and Cruiser squadrons (which I believe are the same as Battle Squadrons but with 3-4 CAs instead of 1 BB & 2 CAs)
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Re: Fleet Composition
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2017, 09:39:18 AM »
Here is my current complete list of ships.
Texas      BB   1
Monsoon      BB   1
Potempkin   TC   1
Winchester   CA   1
Dart      CL   1
Lola      DD   3
Carson      DD   1
Tatsu Maki   DD   1
Pinto      Cvt   1
Invader      JS   4

plus lots of DS and micro-Fighters (and a couple for trade)
Bastion      SS   1
Wagon Wheel   FF   1

I was going to put this into a table but the table doesn't work at all - and the 'help' is completely worthless, nonsensical and irrelevant.
I even copy/pasted an example it gave me ... which shows up  like this:

{| class="wikitable"
style="color:green; background-color:#ffffcc;"
cellpadding="10"
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream
|}


not at all what the 'help' page claims it will show up like. worthless so-called "help".
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