HMS Duke of Cromarty

stewart wrote:--------------

Both Michelle (New Tuscany) and Abagail (exercise) have used limpited external pods. This provides (like the Andermani example) a heavy, first wave, throw weight, but limited follow-up if needed. That's the main reason for not relying on external / tractored pods. The Andies used them as an interim while they were building BC(p)'s

-- Stewart

At New Tuscany, Michelle stopped just prior to the NT system and grabbed pods from ammoships. She did not carry them all the way from Spindle - the internal reactors would not last the trip (>1 week)

Abigail's "Sim" as been attacked in the past on the forums, as pointless and unrealistic, due to the impossible nature of the Rolands all having full limpeted podloads without a podlayer or ammocarrier with the convoy to top off from.

Zvalia's maneuvers at Saltash are more in line of what can be expected of patroling Rolands, but he should have been able to tow ~5 pods on each ship using his internal tractors. I would assume that he wasn't expecting quite the welcome he received, and would have taken the podloads, if he had known.

--snipping--

Theemile wrote:You can haul pods using the ship's internal tractors for a "limitless" amount of time, just like the standard practice in the first war - but that number of tractors is than the max number that can be limpeted using the pod's internal tractors.

The Pod's limit is the internal reactor, not the tractor - I'm looking for the Posts from David on the subject and will post them when I find them. Essentially, some of the sacrifices in making the microfusion reactor involves some parts eating themselves up in the use of the reactor, in addition to a limited fuel supply. refreshing the reactor is necessary after every 30-45 days use as a system defense pod or a period of ~100-150 hours as a tractored pod.

I would presume that limpeted pods reactors wouldn't be fired up until the pod was activated for deployment with the fire-up energy provided by the on-board ship, yes/no?

SharkHunter wrote:--snipping--

Theemile wrote:You can haul pods using the ship's internal tractors for a "limitless" amount of time, just like the standard practice in the first war - but that number of tractors is than the max number that can be limpeted using the pod's internal tractors.

The Pod's limit is the internal reactor, not the tractor - I'm looking for the Posts from David on the subject and will post them when I find them. Essentially, some of the sacrifices in making the microfusion reactor involves some parts eating themselves up in the use of the reactor, in addition to a limited fuel supply. refreshing the reactor is necessary after every 30-45 days use as a system defense pod or a period of ~100-150 hours as a tractored pod.

I would presume that limpeted pods reactors wouldn't be fired up until the pod was activated for deployment with the fire-up energy provided by the on-board ship, yes/no?

No. And this is where Relax's point about power cords comes from. The pods are limpeted using their own internal power - meaning their reactors - which would be kick-started by whatever ship was carrying them *internally* (pod-layer or maybe ammo collier), before being limpeted to the carrying ship. There is no beamed power to limpeted pods, or at least, not enough to jump-start fusion reactors (IIRC).

snipping self....

I would presume that limpeted pods reactors wouldn't be fired up until the pod was activated for deployment with the fire-up energy provided by the on-board ship, yes/no?

--snipping--

MaxxQ wrote:No. And this is where Relax's point about power cords comes from. The pods are limpeted using their own internal power - meaning their reactors - which would be kick-started by whatever ship was carrying them *internally* (pod-layer or maybe ammo collier), before being limpeted to the carrying ship. There is no beamed power to limpeted pods, or at least, not enough to jump-start fusion reactors (IIRC).

That's what's cool about the forum. Knowledgable people.

Plus evil grin... we creative but not fully Honorversed people can give all the folks in BuWeaps ideas for future weapons system enhancements. AKA: MWW, RFC, and David. AK:A He, himself, and him.

SharkHunter wrote:snipping self....

I would presume that limpeted pods reactors wouldn't be fired up until the pod was activated for deployment with the fire-up energy provided by the on-board ship, yes/no?

--snipping--

MaxxQ wrote:No. And this is where Relax's point about power cords comes from. The pods are limpeted using their own internal power - meaning their reactors - which would be kick-started by whatever ship was carrying them *internally* (pod-layer or maybe ammo collier), before being limpeted to the carrying ship. There is no beamed power to limpeted pods, or at least, not enough to jump-start fusion reactors (IIRC).

That's what's cool about the forum. Knowledgable people.

Plus evil grin... we creative but not fully Honorversed people can give all the folks in BuWeaps ideas for future weapons system enhancements. AKA: MWW, RFC, and David. AK:A He, himself, and him.

Actually at this point, I suspect that it is not only RFC working on these things, but the entire BuNine group (Tom Pope, et alia) who are making suggestions that David at least listens to very carefully.