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On Tue, 10/7/14, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Why do those big ships carry so many fighters?
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 11:59 AM

 On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at
 2:28 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 > Yes, gravitics change a lot. But
 you still need streamlining to
 > operate
 in an atmosphere -- both per the rules, and per
 reasonable
 > extrapolation. A streamlined
 shape will move through the air more
 >
 easily, with less turbulence. This is going to be especially
 true for
 > a fighter, which presumably
 will be zipping around at high Mach
 >
 numbers. All those smooth curves and fairings are dead mass
 for a
 > vacuum fighter.

 Do they have to be dead mass
 though?

 I mean, the curved
 surface is going to contribute to armor
 protectiveness, for example, which is an
 advantage in space as well.
 I guess the
 amount of 'waste' depends on how much unusable
 volume is
 between the hardware and the
 skin.

 I think the rules
 give a 10% increase in weight for streamlining, and
 I half remember wedges having no weight penalty
 for streamlining.

 Is 10% a
 big enough difference for a _meaningful_ edge?

 IIRC, the example fighter in
 MT was too small for M-Drives, so it had
 "just" 12G of gravitics, and accepted
 the penalty for using gravs on
 the distant
 edges of a gravity well.

 I'd read that as out between 50D and 100D,
 the fighters have 1.2G or
 1.3 G of accel,
 both of which round down to 1G for combat rules...
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The canonical 50dT heavy fighter that the 'Tigress' class carries works fine in CT, less so for later morphs...

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