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drakensis

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Bonaventure (replica) corvette
« on: 15 April 2017, 01:55:50 »
Class/Model/Name:  Bonaventure (replica)
Tech:              Inner Sphere / 3050
Vessel Type:       WarShip
Rules:             Level 2, Standard design
Rules Set:         AeroTech2

Mass:              240,000 tons
K-F Drive System:  (Unknown)
Power Plant:       Standard
Safe Thrust:       4
Maximum Thrust:    6
Armor Type:        Standard
Armament:         
   24 LRM 15
   19 Large Laser
   20 Autocannon/10
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==Overview:==
Among the earliest of warships to see development, the Bonaventure-class
corvettes were exceptionally agile and possessed unrivalled sensor suites...
by the standards of the early 24th century.

Reserved for reconnaissence and picket duties by the HAF, the surviving
Bonaventures were replaced by the Vincent-class in 2432 and mostly donated to
the Member State navies during the Reunification Wars. The hulls to survive
that war were either uncached by Amaris to be destroyed by the SLDF or fell
prey to the Succession Wars.

The underarmed Bonaventure seemed to be lost forever... until Clan Jade Falcon
decided they needed something faster than their lumbering Aegis-class cruisers
to handle Spheroid raiding dropships.

==Capabilities:==
The new Bonaventure-class was barely modified from its ancient designs by the
Jade Falcons. No effort was made to upgrade its technologies since this would
have delayed construction and the ancient Hegemony equipment was readily
available and more modern equivalents were needed to rebuld the frontline
touman.

Capable of 3.0g acceleration, the Bonaventure can match the manuvers of most
troop carrying dropship and severely outgunned the assault dropships available
at the time.

With no expectation of bidding the Bonaventure into battles against hostile
warships, the Falcons stripped the design of its only capital weapons (two
naval lasers) and increased the secondary armament by a factor of three - and
then added more turrets anywhere they could fit the control mechanisms. The
result was a fairly effective anti-fighter suite, offering a secondary role of
convoy escort for the Bonaventure, and a more than adequate level of firepower
when compared to most spheroid dropships.

==Deployment==
The new heyday of the Bonaventure-class lasted from 3052, when the first ships
arrived in the Inner Sphere escorting supply convoys post-Tukkayid, until 3056
when they first met the Inner Sphere's new warship. Fourteen of the class were
built by Clan Jade Falcon, with two bid for and taken by Clan Smoke Jaguar.

Production halted after the Refusal War as Khan Marthe Pryde rationalised
Falcon production priorities. After reaping an impressive toll against the
Inner Sphere's dropships and fighters for seven years, the Bonaventure-class
once again entered extinction when CSJS Spiteful was destroyed by FCS Intrepid
over Richmond.

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Class/Model/Name:  Bonaventure (replica)
Mass:              240,000 tons

Equipment:                                                            Mass 
Power Plant, Drive & Control:                                       57,600.00
Thrust:  Safe Thrust: 4
      Maximum Thrust: 6
Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive:  Compact (Integrity = 6)                108,600.00
Jump Sail: No Sail (Fusion-Charged K-F)                                   .00
Structural Integrity: 36                                             8,640.00
Total Heat Sinks:    384 Single                                           .00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps:                                                   6,630.00
Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters:                600.00
Fire Control Computers:                                                   .00
Food & Water:  (673 days supply)                                       424.00
Armor Type:  Standard  (118 total armor pts)                           156.00
                           Capital Scale Armor Pts
   Location:                            L / R
   Fore:                                 21
   Fore-Left/Right:                   20/20
   Aft-Left/Right:                    20/20
   Aft:                                  17

Cargo:
   Bay 1:  Fighters (6)                                                900.00
   Bay 2:  Small Craft (2) with 1 door                                 400.00
   Bay 3:  Cargo (1) with 1 door                                    52,000.00

Grav Deck #1:  (65-meter diameter)                                      50.00
Escape Pods:  22 (7 tons each)                                         154.00

Crew and Passengers:
     17 Officers (17 minimum)                                          170.00
     76 Crew (76 minimum)                                              532.00
     11 Gunners (11 minimum)                                            77.00
     22 Bay Personnel                                                     .00
Weapons and Equipment      Loc        SRV    MRV    LRV    ERV  Heat    Mass
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2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        Nose     2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   10     21.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        Nose     2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   10     21.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        Nose     2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   10     21.00
1 Large Laser              Nose      1(8)   1(8)     --     --    8      5.00
1 Large Laser              FL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
1 Large Laser              FL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
1 Large Laser              FL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        FL/R     2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   20     42.00
1 Large Laser              FL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
2 Autocannon/10(80 rounds) FL/R     2(20)  2(20)     --     --   12     64.00
2 Autocannon/10(80 rounds) L/RBS    2(20)  2(20)     --     --   12     64.00
2 Autocannon/10(80 rounds) L/RBS    2(20)  2(20)     --     --   12     64.00
2 Autocannon/10(80 rounds) L/RBS    2(20)  2(20)     --     --   12     64.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        L/RBS    2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   20     42.00
1 Large Laser              L/RBS     1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
1 Large Laser              AL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
1 Large Laser              AL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
1 Large Laser              AL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        AL/R     2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   20     42.00
1 Large Laser              AL/R      1(8)   1(8)     --     --   16     10.00
2 Autocannon/10(80 rounds) AL/R     2(20)  2(20)     --     --   12     64.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        Aft      2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   10     21.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        Aft      2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   10     21.00
2 LRM 15(56 rounds)        Aft      2(18)  2(18)  2(18)     --   10     21.00
1 Lot Spare Parts (1.00%)                                            2,400.00
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TOTALS:                                              Heat: 332     240,000.00
Tons Left:                                                                .00

Calculated Factors:
Total Cost:        1,541,484,000 C-Bills
Battle Value:      18,492
Cost per BV:       83,359.51
Weapon Value:      11,914 (Ratio = .64)
Damage Factors:    SRV = 521;  MRV = 410;  LRV = 60;  ERV = 0
Maintenance:       Maintenance Point Value (MPV) = 369,328
                   (54,916 Structure, 305,160 Life Support, 9,252 Weapons)
                   Support Points (SP) = 118,281  (32% of MPV)
BattleForce2:      Not applicable
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Re: Bonaventure (replica) corvette
« Reply #1 on: 15 April 2017, 04:36:47 »
I like this design, she's really nice :) Give her clan weapons and she'd be a deadly flak bus.
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Re: Bonaventure (replica) corvette
« Reply #2 on: 18 April 2017, 21:35:40 »
Yeah, I'd probably up the guns to Clan, though I also would have kept the naval lasers, since those can target DropShips and even fighters.  Speaking of fighters, why not expand the fighter bay to 10 birds for a full Clan Star?

But those are nitpicks on a neat idea.
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Re: Bonaventure (replica) corvette
« Reply #3 on: 20 April 2017, 03:58:10 »
Good point about the fighter bays.

The Falcons looked at the relative punch of the naval lasers and decided the range wasn't a valid trade-off against the short-ranged conventional weapons, in the expected role. This worked fine until they had to fight actual warships.

As for clan weapons, you'd have to pry those out of the hands of frontline warriors busy insisting they need that spare gauss rifle and ER Large laser in case they need to modify their omnimech or omnifighter loadout.
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Re: Bonaventure (replica) corvette
« Reply #4 on: 20 April 2017, 10:53:04 »
As for clan weapons, you'd have to pry those out of the hands of frontline warriors busy insisting they need that spare gauss rifle and ER Large laser in case they need to modify their omnimech or omnifighter loadout.

That fight ends with the warship captain launching the mechwarrior into space to fight the omnifighters for him.

 

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