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pheonixstorm

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(Answered) Small Craft and bay doors clarification
« on: 30 November 2017, 23:09:19 »
Just want to make sure I am doing this correctly.

TM p196
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On DropShips, however, transport bays—including those for
fighters, BattleMechs and other units—must assign a minimum of
1 bay door each, to allow for entry and egress from the vessel. For
any given vessel
, the maximum number of bay doors is equal to 7
plus the vessel’s total weight (in tons) divided by 50,000 (rounded
up). Thus, a DropShip weighing 20,000 tons would receive a maximum
of 8 bay doors (7 + [20,000 ÷ 50,000] = 7.4, rounded up to
8 ), while a DropShip weighing 80,000 tons would be limited to 9
doors (7 + [80,000 ÷ 50,000] = 8.6, rounded up to 9).

For the section in bold, does that refer to all craft in this section of rules or only for dropships? It doesn't seem very clear especially considering the example on deals with dropships and the small scraft construction example doesn't even mention doors at all even though it has 9 tons of cargo. The entry in Handbook House Steiner does list 1 door for the cargo.

Do Small Craft use the same door calculations as dropships or should they have their own?
« Last Edit: 09 December 2017, 02:12:20 by Xotl »

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Re: (Research) Small Craft and bay doors clarification
« Reply #1 on: 09 December 2017, 02:12:15 »
See the upcoming TechManual errata for this one.
3028-3057 Random Assignment Tables -
Also contains faction deployment & rarity info.

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=1219.0

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Re: (Answered) Small Craft and bay doors clarification
« Reply #2 on: 09 December 2017, 17:26:37 »
Thanks.