Hi Christoper,

CT agility is calculated by totaling up all the systems that require energy from the power plant at a specific time. When not using weapons then a ship's agility, in my opinion, would to adjusted for only the energy systems that are in use at the time.

When firing energy using weapons agility would be calculated using the total energy used by those weapons.

Tom Rux

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> Subject: [TML] CT: High Guard Ship design, "batteries" vs "batteries
> bearing" for EP
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> Here's what may be a silly question:
>
> Q: When calculating Agility under Classic Traveller, Book 5 should one use
> "batteries" or "batteries bearing" for energy consumption?
>
> In more depth, if I'm designing a 75,000 dTon ship with bay mounted meson
> guns, I can only fire 75% of the meson guns in one combat round. If I put 20
> x 100 ton factor 9 meson guns in the bays, they would need 4,000 EP. But
> only 30 of the meson guns can fire in a combat round. For calculating
> agility, do I note 3,000 EP consumption?
>
> Subsidiary questions:
>
> Q: Did I miss this in the rules or was it addressed in an Errata?
>
> Q: Do later editions of the rules address this?
>
>
> Where I lean:
>
> I lean towards "batteries bearing" rather than batteries here. My logic is
> that the bigger ship is already at enough of a disadvantage due to it's
> size. If we compare two ships, my original 75,000 dTon ship, and a 20,000
> dTon ship and both of them pack the same weapons complement, then the 20,000
> dTon ship would be able to fire 19 / 20 of its weapons. Taking things to
> their logical conclusion, the 20,000 dTon ship can be made much stronger by
> diversifying it's weapons complement at a relatively small cost in EP. E.g.
> change the weapons complement of the smaller ship to be 10 x 100 dTon meson
> bays + 10 x 100 dTon particle accelerator bays. Now, the smaller ship can
> divide up 20 batteries...
>
>
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