Friday, November 1, 2024

Ship Building - Aside

 

KNS Pteranodon - heavy cruiser

I don't really think I have any kind of obsessive compulsive (convulsive??)  disorder, but I simply had to build one of these: a heavy cruiser. The smallest navy - Kiivar - gets it; a desperate measure, perhaps, in the face of the vastly superior Ra'esharn cruiser fleet. From start to finish to make: the course of an afternoon and evening, off and on.

Serial 83

It dimensions are pretty much the same as those of all the other cruisers in the three fleets, but this fellow, KNS Pteranodon, has nine primary guns in three triple turrets - half as much again the firepower of the 6-gun cruisers. I reckon into the bargain I'll give it 15FP (Flotation Points) instead of the standard 12.


Below are comparative pictures, top to bottom: battleship, battle cruiser, heavy cruiser.


The comparison is clearer from this overhead photo. 




Itch scratched: I don't reckon I'll be making any more of these...

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