Jonathan_S wrote:Maybe, or maybe by BoMa that Invictus had been refitted with yet a newer compensator. As best I can tell the HoS accel rates are based on original compensators, not what the ships can do post refit.clancy688 wrote:One question regarding House of Steel and accel rates:
HoS tells us that Invictus-class SD(P)'s can pull 562.9 Gees of maximum accel.
But in AAC, during BoMa, HMS King Roger III, Admiral Kuzak's flagship, pulled 612 Gees (end of chapter sixty-seven).
Possible error?
Although the one I found a bit odd was the Culvern-class DD. It's a pre-war (1899 PD) design, and masses 104,000 tons, but has an anomalously high acceleration rate of 547.4g. (Compare the preceding Javalin-class 1883, 87,250 tons, 519.7g).
It's too early for the lead ship to benefit from the Grayson compensator tech, because Honor of the Queen wasn't until 1903.
(I find it doubly odd because the listing for it in HoS differs in only two ways from Jaynes - in service date (1889 vs 1906) and accel (547.4g vs 518.9g), the later being what you'd expect from a pre-grayson compensator)
I found it somewhat interesting to go through and compare the ship specs from those two publications (but also found that Jayne's had some internal consistency issues where the weapons count in the summary didn't always match the broadside/chase details from the diagram legends)
Or maybe the compensator was redlined durring that battle
Have to remember the Accels given are from memory (don't quote me on this) Maximum Safe Speeds..
It's also possible with some of the early classes that they may have been before a set of regulations changed the maximum compensator limits etc or the like etc.. I'm not saying it is, but that could be one explination for such..
