Hi Duckk,
Sorry to get back so late to this thread, but the holidays are distracting, so I apologise for dredging this up again, but I do feel responsible to answer all the posts addressed to me if I can.
First of all, it's embarrassing to admit but I've spent well over a thousand hours a year on the honorverse since I succumbed to it ten years ago, with the exception of my time in Iraq, trying to figure things out; and as RFC could vouch for himself, my copies of his books are literally filled with post-it notes, which is why I'm irked when the textev isn't followed or at least a polite explanation provided of why it wasn't.
Secondly, I didn't say either of these smaller BCP's had to have 300 pods to start with; indeed before SFtS, RFC or the MWW had written the Agamemnon had only around 280-288 pods for 14+ minutes of fire, back in AAC etc.
How you get to over 300 pods for BCP's so much smaller is your problem, if you insist they carry so many, not mine.
Thirdly, if you respected the fans a little, or showed a decent respect or simple courtesy by explaining your thinking as was done in the great resize project, I'd have far more respect for your animus now.
I've spent much time here and elsewhere offering possible solutions to evident plot holes, so please keep that in mind.
A simple explanation would do wonders all round, and could have been provided in HoS as an appendix that most fans would have found delightful if not a godsend.
From the bar discussions I recall, we were trying to guess the number of pods the IAN and GSN BCP's carried; not trying to force them to carry a rather ridiculous minimum of 300+; as I recall some suggested only 120-160 pods for the IAN, and up around 200 for the GSN, the point many posters made was the stacked launch potential being the whole point of such designs not their lack of endurance, which the MWW mentioned in the different
design philosophies regarding BC design back in the SVW appendix, where the Nike had 25% more broadside missile tubes [25 to 20] while Sultan carried 25% more missiles because the peeps saw their BC's as fast scaled down extensions of their wall, while the RMN believed BC's had little chance against any wallers [RMN BC's were only used strictly for screening the wall], theirs were designed more for independent operations, where overwhelming the enemy quickly was the main object, so even tackling two Sultans simultaneously successfully despite only a 3% increase in mass over just one Sultan was very possible.
Thus the design philosophy of the BCP in general seemed in line with previous RMN BC's, despite all the criticism in HoS etc, especially since the stated 85+ Agamemnon's built is far more than most expected.
I was one of those surprised by the 25% increase in pods the Agamemnon's could carry as a result of SFtS, NTM the implication they had previously fired some 56 pods, ie 784 Mk-16's at Bogey One at Solon; or potentially 3,920 for the 5 BCP's compared to the 276 Mk-16's each of the AAC textev, not 336 from 24 pods [how they fitted the 276 missiles into missile pods of 14 each was never explained], but this isn't about the pathetic RMN missile volleys at Solon, that exercised so many back at the bar, since HH-A had to lose at least once.
Remember when HH-A was bragging to Filareta about how all the SDP's she commanded could control over 200 MDM's each, was she thinking about Solon where 144 was the most Imperator and Intolerant could do apparently?
Granted Keyholes shift fire control between offensive and defensive missions, it still seems rather limited compared to the numbers each of the RHN SDP's managed to control with their inferior tech [180-1800 each].
L
[quote="Duckk"][quote]Except the Courvosier II BCP was described in War of Honor as being only ~1.3 MT not 1.75 [the IAN's BCP's were in the 1.1 MT range], but Bu9 decided to disregard almost all such numeric details through out the series without any attempt to explain any of their decisions by getting RFC to approve their fiat figures in HoS despite all the obvious conflicts.[/quote]
I'd like to see you shove 300-ish pods into a BC hull and still have room left over for little things like crew and propulsion. It pisses me off that you think we discarded things willy nilly, as if we didn't give a shit about what we were doing. I damn well guarantee that we spent far more time than you playing around with how these ships work, and as a consequence of that some things that David wrote flat out doesn't work.[/quote]
