On 09Jun2020 0548, Alex Goodwin wrote:
> On 9/6/20 3:39 am, Postmark - postmark.design at btinternet.com (via tml
> list) wrote:
>> On 8 Jun 2020, at 15:10, Alex Goodwin <xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote:
>>> Have I overcooked things or are the _Indomitable_-class ships actually
>>> battlestars under the TVTropes definition?
>> I don’t know how big a battleship is in the IW period, but the Indomitable sounds more like a strike carrier than a dreadnought and a multi-role dreadnought (eg Tigress) sounds more like a battlestar.
>>
>> Phil Kitching
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> Per the writeup, 30 kdton displacement, and one of (if not) the biggest
> and shootiest battlewagons around for the era:
>
> "Still, their sheer size, toughness, and firepower made them queens of
> the battlefield for over a century"
The way I see it, at 30KDTons, and with only ~400 DTons devoted to those
20 (quite small, especially at Traveller TL12) fighters, it's not got
nearly enough emphasis on sub-craft to be a 'battlecarrier'. It's a
battleship that took some minor damage fighting off the 'fighter mafia'
of the day.

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