Hello all,

I'm sad to say that this is not my first attempt at using Joe D. Fugate Sr.'s A MT Starship Design Example by Joe D. Fugate Sr. with Donald McKinney's errata. I'm not sure how long before Donald McKinney's passing I made an attempt at using the document to build an MT spreadsheet. During the attempt I found additional errata and began sending them to him, unfortunately I never finished the project. The really sad thing is that now I have no idea of who to send the errata with the suggested fixes to for review.

With that out of the way I'm having trouble understanding how the load out for the missile and sand canister was determined.

Page 5: 100 triple missile turrets are installed.

Page 6: 100 triple sandcaster turrets

The following material was added as errata to Page 13 by Donald McKinney:

"We now need to consider additional rounds for the missile and sandcaster turrets. A good measure for magazine carriage is to allow for up to 24 hours of constant exchange (which is ridiculous for encounters, but provides plenty of ammunition. This will require 780 missiles and 1800 sandcasters per turn. Remember that the weight of ammunition goes towards loaded weight, but not unloaded weight."

MT Referee's Manual p. 90:

     Combat Round: Combat is resolved in rounds. Each combat round represents 20 minutes of elapsed time. Thus, three combat rounds equal one hour.

     Within a single round, each individual spacecraft is allowed an opportunity to move and to attack. Each may be attacked by one or more enemy spacecraft.

     Once all spacecraft in the battle have been provided with the opportunity to act, the combat round is over, and the next combat round begins.

If I've got the above right 300 missile launchers can throw out 300 missile in one turn of 20 minutes in one hour that is 900 missiles. Moving on 300 sandcaster throw out 300 canisters in the first 20 minutes again in one hour that is 900 canisters.  At this point I'm over by 120 missiles and short 900 for the sandcaster. Based on my data above a 24 hour supply of missiles and canisters is 21,600.

Below the text the magazine load out is 56,160 missiles and 129,600 canisters.

Can anyone explain to me what I'm missing. This is the last item of the example which would, in theory, build the MT: COACC Guardian-Class Orbital Battle Station. Off course the build will be different since I'll include a maneuver drive, bridge, and other information not shown.

Tom Rux

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