Comments on: IN THE STORMY RED SKY — snippet 1

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:05:23 +0000

Is it only me, or do i see a future between Miranda Dorst and Daniel Leary? I think they fit togheter, shes a intelligent lady which could take care of the his household and help him making sound financial decisions (we know daniel not good with the numbers)

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:55:16 +0000

So the tube number difference makes sense. By the way these posts are my first foray into SF computer geekdom, which is why this post is seperate from the one above.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:43:00 +0000

Your right, I finally found the reference Way to Glory page 424, 12 tubes with betweem 100-200 reloads. In Lt. leary commanding both battleships the aristotle and the der grosser karl are reported to have a wt of 70 thousand tons , more than 5 times the size of the 13000 ton milton.

By: kar

kar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:31:58 +0000

From what I read in When the Tide Rises, a heavy cruiser seems to have 12 tubes or so… so maybe I was wrong about the 20. She probably has about 10 to 12 tubes. Of course, they also said that Alliance ships are bigger in tonnage than RCN ones usually to give more space for more sailors. So she could have one or two more tubes. Other than that, I was suprised in the difference in the number of tubes between a heavy cruiser and a battleship… something like 12 to 48 (36 for the Los tze). That doesn’t seem right in context. That’s why i thought the heavy cruisers would at least have 20 tubes.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:11:25 +0000

Admiral class heavy cruiser 4 20 cm batteries. But how many missle tubes???

By: kar

kar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:59:47 +0000

Man… I’ve been waiting for the snippets to be released forever now… finally… So he got the Milton huh?? Awesome… If I remember correctly she’s a modified heavy cruiser, something about being more fit as a raider and for speed or something. The prologue seems ominous… If Cinnabar represents Rome, we may finally get to see a Cinnabar defeat. Otherwise, if he could kill heavy cruisers with a corvette, It’ll be interesting to see what him in a heavy cruiser with 20 or so missle tubes can do.