Topic: Refiting a FASA L24 BB to SFB / SFC standards!!

[Panzergranate]

I've just finished spending 10 minites converting an SFC 2 FASA Klingon L24 Giant BB to SFC 1 so that I can run it in LAN campaigns here.

OK, the empire is having its butt kicked by those Drone firing pesky Kzinti in the current campaign and we've been trawling the shipyards looking for serious kitty killing hardware!!

OK, from it's gigantic size, when placed next to a normal Klingon DN or BB, the L24 is gonna be a move cost 2 ship.

It is also powered by only 2 x 15 Box S-Graph type D7 Warp Engines which'll make it slow.

Turn radius should be about F.

So to sum up what I figure the basic start specs are:

Size Class = 2
Turn Radius = F
Move Cost = 2
Warp Power = 2 x 15
Impulse = 6
APR = 24
BTTY = 12

Now what I want suggestions for in possible armaments for the L24 to bring it up to SFB / SFC standards, but still reflecting its FASA design.

There is a hell of a lot of hull to stuff weapons into as this is a giant BB next to a B10 or B11!!

I'm interested in suggestions for all the other internals as well.

The L24 could be the ideal SCS or SSCS that the Klingon Empire lacks in SFB and SFC.

[Klingon Fanatic]

I generally find Atrahasis' stats for FASA TMP ships to be balanced, given the constraints of the SFC series game limitations.

The only major issue I have with FASA ships in general is that FASA Frigates would be heavy cruisers in SFB/C and not frigates in the SFB term of the meaning.

Stats can be found on this page:

http://www.geocities.com/atrahasis1/l24.html

Do not forget about the L24C three nacelled version....

Qapla'

KF

[Panzergranate]

I'll try them out.

The L24 does have that "You seriously need to consider running away" look about it.

I might add a few external Drone Racks as it does have enough hull to carry a lot of these. That would make it an L24D then.

As a carrier, the L24 would make the perfect hull for conversion with maybe transverse or diagonal launch tubes and landing bays. It would be able to carry more than double the fighters of a C8V or a N6 with twin CVA pods.

We run the L9 as a destroyer rather than a heavy frigate. It is better suited to this role than the up gunned F5 DW* lash ups.

The D18 Laratan works out well as a Heavy Destroyer.

The FASA ships do fill in the gaping holes in the SFB Klingon Fleet regarding destroyers.

Actually, as with Earth Naval ships, the size of the vessel's hull doesn't determine its role, it is how it is armoured / shielded, equiped out, mission profile, crew training and armament that makes a ship a frigate, destroyer, light cruiser, medium cruiser, heavy cruiser, dreadnaught  or battleship.

Technically, during the 20th century, a destroyer was defined as a frigate armed with torpedoes and light cruiser armament. Technically an L9E is a destroyer.

Cruisers were so classed as they carried torpedoes with the armament / armour balance determining the size type.

Corvettes were defined as small warships, constructed in merchant shipyards, that carried no armour and had token heavy armament, being armed primarily for point defence and equiped heavily with EW kit.

The most numerous ship class built in WW2 was the Flower Class corvette, which numbered hundreds.

The general heiracrhy, lowest to highest, for warships and combat able craft in the RN and other navies is:

Motor Gun Boat
Motor Torpedo Boat / Patrol Torpedo  Boat
Skiff
Gun Boat
Corvette
Minesweeper
Frigate
Heavy Frigate
Destroyer
Heavy Destroyer
Light Cruiser
Medium Cruiser
Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser
Monitor
Dreadnaught
Battleship