Re: Elvish cutter

Harry Bandoian wrote:

>
> But wouldnt that effectivly "munchkin" the ship? Frankly I think the
> idea that the weapons require a ton of space just to hold it is dumb. I
> think the weapons should come with space minimums not tonnage. This
> would give small ships like the Flitter at least ONE heavy weapon.
> Giving more power to "fighter" type ships.

Anyone else out there ever notice that there are two definition of TON in SJ?
you have the ship (Displacement) TON and you have the cargo TON. A Ship Ton is
2700 cu ft. The cargo ton is 1000 cu ft. The definition of ship ton is found in
the WCC. The cargo ton comes from the Hold of Holding. There is no other way
that those figures work out otherwise. I use cargo tonnage for weapon space.

> But frankly, I think all the ships in the WCC are in one way or another
> screwed up. For instance, the Battle dolphin, have u looked at it? I see
> a dolphin, but very little battle! Its got like 3 weapons and the ship
> is IIRC 80 tons, what a total waste of space. And there is I suppose
> allot that didnt get published because of Spelljammers demise, that
> would have some how corrected this.

Most ships are way under-gunned by WCC rules.

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