On 6/19/2014 7:31 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> I still remember reading the supplement that detailed the IN Spinward Marches ships, reading the text about the Plankwells 'suffering high losses'<sic>, looking at the stats, noting the puny class-3 meson shield (the other BB's had the max, class-9) & thinking, "No wonder they keep blowing up. Jackie Fisher has been reincarnated & is back at work again!".

Except that it wasn't as design flaw that caused Indefatigable, Queen
Mary, and Invincible to catastrophically explode and sink, it was
extremely bad ammunition handling that should have seen everyone
involved cashiered and beached.

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