So I'm embarking on the grand daddy of all deckplans, at least as far as I've gone to date. I figure at my 1.5m scale this will be the largest ship I'll be able to do on this scale (I use MS paint with a ton of pre-made details that I copy/cut/paste onto the grid maps I make).

Now for the details. We know that the KH specs state the following:

HS:12-14 HP:70 Crew:70-100
ADF:3 MR:2 DCR:100
Weapons: DC, LB, EB, PB, RB(x6), T(x4)
Defenses: RH, ES, SS, ICM(x8)

With that I'm going with a size 12 hull and four atomic B drives. This permits a LVL:4 pilot (HS:13 and up calls for a LVL:5 pilot, so I went with a slot for something a frigate/destroyer pilot can graduate to). Dimensions call for the neighborhood of 300m long by 50m diameter. My standard "four wedge" mid-section will still work, this time accomodating all four battery weapons and the ICM launchers located elsewhere. This craft will have a 3 unit cargo hold occupying the widest portion of the hull, large enough to accomodate an assault scout if the elevator shaft weren't running up the center.

The grid I used for a two-view is 8m squares, so the ship measures 276m long without drives/cannon and 48m wide without drives or batteries, falling within the basic parameters (using the +/-25% rule). Overall measurements will be 328m with cannon and drives and 80m wide with drives. I utilized the KH profile (pages 6-7 in the campaign book) and amalgated some of my frigate/destroyer design into it. Here's the two-view I whipped up last night:



First, the trivial part: if anyone has caught on to my registration numbers from the frigate and destroyer you'll notice I did homages to Star Trek and Star Wars series using the numbers 1701 on the frigate and 1138 on the destroyer respectively. Since this will be the third in a series of capital ships, I was wondering if anyone knows of some designations from other 80s sci fi flicks, like perhaps some designation number from Battlestar Galactica or something from the Buck Rogers series that I can incorporate on the cruiser.

With the trivial stuff out of the way, let's discuss what all the cruiser should have over the frigate and destroyer. Obviously it needs to have double the accomodations of a destroyer for starters, it can have up to two lifeboats and 12 escape pods, I already have a good idea where to stuff those (which will pretty much parallel the frigate/destroyer locations, and an additional eight escape pods encircling one of the other decks...most likely the vehicle bay deck).

I'll have to run more than a single elevator shaft on this one...100 crew members and well over 20 decks (my destroyer has 17 decks total) will mandate more than one.

One thought I had was adding a pair of light fighters (small anti-fighter fighters armed only with a pod laser system)...with 70-100 crew I'm running out of ideas what to staff this thing with so any leftovers could serve as a support crew to those craft. That's on the back burner though, as it really doesn't meld with the KH canon stuff. More realistic would be a HS:2-3 shuttle or two. Yep, a shuttle bay will definitely be in the mix. Perhaps the fighters can appear on the revised FE version (for those not in the know, I am in the process of revamping the canon craft by swapping out the cubic meter chewing short ranged rocket batteries for longer ranged energy weapons that take up less space...swapping out cubic meter per cubic meter. The cruiser's 6 salvo RB takes up 100 cubic meters, which could be swapped for an additional laser/electron/proton battery and still have 70+ cubic meters left over, sufficient for a pair of 10x2 meter fighter craft).

I'm not overly fond of Zeb's Guide...nor do I have any qualms stating why. 

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