Since this thread's been woken up I'm just going to point out my recently started but still stalled playthrough over on the Aurora forum, however since bay12 is more active I'm going to mirror it over here.
Black ships and gunboat diplomacyThe setup is basically the plot of battleship, but pushed back to 1969, an almost conventional start with a large obsolete conventionally equipped navy, technology will be advanced as the US and russian space program advances during the early 70's.
Meanwhile the galaxy is limited to 24 systems with 2 NPRs at 500% difficulty, 100% NPR generation change and jump gates on all jump points, all spoilers are on, as necessary I may have to interject with sm mode to prevent total loss of humanity, but only if the story allows it.
Just a taste of things to come.
Iowa class Battleship 52,000 tons 613 Crew 2699.28 BP TCS 1040 TH 11 EM 0
10 km/s 32 Knots Armour 6-124 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 13 PPV 107
Maint Life 2.99 Years MSP 1422 AFR 1664% IFR 23.1% 1YR 238 5YR 3567 Max Repair 42 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Flight Crew Berths 0
Hangar Deck Capacity 1000 tons Troop Capacity: 1 Battalion Drop Capacity: 1 Company Magazine 256 Cargo 5000 Passengers 250 Cargo Handling Multiplier 5
General Electric Steam Turbine 03-270 (4) Power 2.7 Fuel Use 2.71% Signature 2.7 Exp 3%
Fuel Capacity 2,610,000 Litres Range 315.2 billion 24,000 km (364810 days at full power)
20mm/70 cal Oerlikon Autocannon (25x3) Range 10,000km TS: 1250 km/s Accuracy Modifier 33% RM 1 ROF 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Triple Turret 16"/50 mark 7 naval cannon (3x4) Range 20,000 40 km TS: 1250 km/s Power 21-3 RM 1 ROF 35 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Twin Turret 5"/54 dual purpose naval cannon (10x4) Range 20,000 5 km TS: 1250 km/s Power 3-2 RM 2 ROF 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Manual Aim Firecontrol (5) Max Range: 5,000 km TS: 625 km/s 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naval Cannon fire control (5) Max Range: 5,000 km TS: 1250 km/s 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naval Cannon Long Range Fire Control (3) Max Range: 20,000 40 km TS: 1250 km/s 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16"/50 munitions handling and storage system (3) Total Power Output 42 Armour 0 Exp 5%
5"/54 munitions handling and storage system (10) Total Power Output 20 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Mark 44 Torpedo (34) Speed: 100 km/s 60 knots End: 13m Range: 0.1mk km WH: 4 Size: 6 TH: 0/0/0
Size 3 Passive Sonar Bouy (6) Speed: 100 km/s End: 25.9m Range: 0.2mk km WH: 0 Size: 3 TH: 0/0/0
Size 3 Active Sonar Bouy (6) Speed: 100 km/s End: 25.9m Range: 0.2mk km WH: 0 Size: 3 TH: 0/0/0
Size 3 Radar Bouy (6) Speed: 100 km/s End: 25.9m Range: 0.2mk km WH: 0 Size: 3 TH: 0/0/0
S-Band Search Radar (2) GPS 2 Range 70k km Resolution 2
Strike Group
2x Sea King ASW Helicopter Scout Speed: 100 km/s 300 km/h Size: 9.95
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes