First warship, what did I do wrong? (370kt) revision up

[Andras]

Fair warning, I haven't read any of the warship construction rules.

see posts below

[Starfox1701]

Well she lacks cap scale aft weapons and is very ammo dependent. Cargo might be a bit on the light side considering the 2 fighter squadrons that have to be supported. One thing is for sure this ship won't operate as a single independent raider well. Will need to work in groups of 3 to 6. Definitely a fleet escort.

[Vition2]

It mostly looks good, but there are two places where I'm seeing errors (either on your end or in the sheet). 
- You are 3 short on gunners - though your overall crew numbers are correct, so shifting 3 from your Crew to the Gunners would be fine (also, typically speaking, officers are going to get a grade higher quarters than the crew and gunners, but that can be mostly personal preference).
- You actually have more than 20 weapons in at least a few firing arcs, so you should be accruing some fire control tonnage (it won't be a huge amount, but depending on how much extra you have left over could eat into your cargo).

Lastly, a couple of suggestions for ease of reading (and play if you ever get this on the table):
- Put everything in each arc into a single area rather than doing it by weapon (copy/paste is your friend here)
- In your "cargo" hold, put all of the remaining unused tonnage
- Not really an issue but vehicle bays of all types (ASF, SC, etc.) and cargo bays do not need to have a location... they just are part of the warship.

[Andras]

She does have the 4 White Sharks aft, along with the LRM20s and (newly added) GRs on the aft corners, plus the PPCs and UAC20s if range drops to medium.

Changes to the secondary btty, dropped 12 fighters, increased cargo and fuel. Should be less then 20 weapons (except AMS) per side. Personnel quarters reduced to steerage. Armor bumped

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Class/Model/Name: Galveston
Tech: Inner Sphere
Ship Cost: $7,049,124,000.00
Magazine Cost: $8,532,000.00
BV2: 44,797

Mass: 360,000
K-F Drive System: Compact
Power Plant: Maneuvering Drive
Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-Carbide
Armament:
14 Naval AC 10
20 Naval Laser 35
8 Capital Launcher White Shark
20 Gauss Rifle (IS)
40 LRM 20 (IS)
10 AC 20 Ultra (IS)
24 PPC
48 AMS (IS)

Equipment: Mass
Drive: 86,400.00
Thrust
Safe: 4
Maximum: 6
Controls: 900.00
K-F Hyperdrive: Compact (9 Integrity) 162,900.00
Jump Sail: (4 Integrity) 48.00
Structural Integrity: 120 43,200.00
Total Heat Sinks: 1144(2288) Double 684.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 13965 points 5,697.72
Fire Control Computers: 0.00
Armor: 750 pts Lamellor Ferro-Carbide 750.00
Fore: 135
Fore-Left/Right: 125/125
Aft-Left/Right: 125/125
Aft: 115
(note-no extra from SI)

Dropship Capacity: 2 2,000.00
Grav Decks:
Small: 0 0.00
Medium: 3 300.00
Large: 0.00
Escape Pods: 10 70.00
Life Boats: 10 70.00

Crew And Passengers:
30 Officers in 2nd Class Quarters 210.00
87 Crew in Steerage Quarters 435.00
56 Gunners and Others in Steerage Quarters 280.00
34 Bay Personnel 0.00
0 1st Class Passengers 0.00
0 2nd Class Passengers 0.00
83 Steerage Passengers 415.00

# Weapons Loc Heat Damage Range Mass
4 Capital Launcher White Shark Nose 60 120 (12-C) Ext-C 480.00
4 Gauss Rifle (IS) Nose 4 60 (6-C) Long-C 60.00
6 PPC Nose 60 60 (6-C) Med-C 42.00
10 Naval Laser 35 FL 520 350 (35-C) Long-C 7,000.00
10 LRM 20 (IS) FL 60 120 (12-C) Long-C 100.00
8 AMS (IS) FL 8 24 (2.4-C) PDS 4.00

10 Naval Laser 35 FR 520 350 (35-C) Long-C 7,000.00
10 LRM 20 (IS) FR 60 120 (12-C) Long-C 100.00
8 AMS (IS) FR 8 24 (2.4-C) PDS 4.00


7 Naval AC 10 RBS 210 700 (70-C) Long-C 14,000.00
4 Gauss Rifle (IS) RBS 4 60 (6-C) Long-C 60.00
6 PPC RBS 60 60 (6-C) Med-C 60.00
8 AMS (IS) RBS 8 24 (2.4-C) PDS 4.00

7 Naval AC 10 LBS 210 700 (70-C) Long-C 14,000.00
4 Gauss Rifle (IS) LBS 4 60 (6-C) Long-C 60.00
6 PPC LBS 60 60 (6-C) Med-C 60.00
8 AMS (IS) LBS 8 24 (2.4-C) PDS 4.00

4 Gauss Rifle (IS) AR 4 60 (6-C) Long-C 60.00
10 LRM 20 (IS) AR 60 120 (12-C) Long-C 100.00
5 AC 20 Ultra (IS) AR 80 150 (15-C) Med-C 75.00
8 AMS (IS) AR 8 24 (2.4-C) PDS 4.00

4 Gauss Rifle (IS) AL 4 60 (6-C) Long-C 60.00
10 LRM 20 (IS) AL 60 120 (12-C) Long-C 100.00
5 AC 20 Ultra (IS) AL 80 150 (15-C) Med-C 75.00
8 AMS (IS) AL 8 24 (2.4-C) PDS 4.00

4 Capital Launcher White Shark Aft 60 120 (12-C) Ext-C 480.00
6 PPC Aft 60 60 (6-C) Med-C 42.00

Ammo Rounds Mass
Naval AC 10 Ammo 350 70.00
Capital Launcher White Shark Ammo 48 1,920.00
Gauss Rifle (IS) Ammo 480 60.00
LRM 20 (IS) Ammo 720 120.00
AC 20 Ultra (IS) Ammo 240 48.00
AMS (IS) Ammo 240 20.00

12 Fighters (2 doors)
2 SMallCraft (1 door)
7,200t Cargo (1 door)

I could bump it to 365kt, for a minuscule extra cost which gives me an extra ~920 tons for cargo and fuel.
               

[Vition2]

Changes to the secondary btty, dropped 12 fighters, increased cargo and fuel. Should be less then 20 weapons (except AMS) per side. Personnel quarters reduced to steerage.

Unfortunately AMS counts against the 20 weapon limit and causes the multiplier for fire control to be applied.  If you don't care for that rule and are house-ruling that away, more power to you, but for a legal warship (or anything else for that matter), they count against the limit.

[Andras]

Quick summary of revisions:
370kt, 2 drop collars, 12 fighters, 2 small craft, 18,100 tons cargo, 183 burn days fuel. LF battery (13 billion c-bills, ouch)

Nose/Aft: 4 NL45, 7 SubCapCannon Light, 5 ER LL, 4 UAC20,

BS: 3 NAC20, 4 NL45, 3 CapLauncherWS, 4 UAC20, 4 SubCapLaser3

Corners: 5 ERLL, 10 LRM20+AIV, 16AMS
(143tons each for FC)

Ammo: 420 SubCap-L, 60 WS missiles, 480 UAC20, 1200 LRM, 1600 AMS.

100% heatsink

Armor, 125 all sides except rear @ 115