A Boondoggle Monsoon

[Wildfire]

Okay been bored and playing around with meklab and thought I'd see what I could do if I was one of those nostalgic Admirals upgrading an anicent hull.

I rationalised the NAC's to just NAC/20 and added a few more to allow bracketing where able. Added AMS and NL45 in 5 bay lots to all locations as a keep away I can still hurt you guesture. My normal max armour and a comm scanner, I left the N-PPC bays and missle launcher alone

Oh and I gave it a speed boost to keep up with the young whipper snappers :)

Monsoon Battleship (LF) (2700)
Mass: 1,310,000 tons
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Advanced)
Introduced: 2700
Mass: 1,310,000
Battle Value: 193,549
Tech Rating/Availability: E/E-X-E-F
Cost: 27,983,706,000 C-bills

Fuel: 6,000 tons (15,000)
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Sail Integrity: 6
KF Drive Integrity: 26
Heat Sinks: 3525 (7050)
Structural Integrity: 90

Armor
    Nose: 528
    Fore Sides: 434/434
    Aft Sides: 386/386
    Aft: 244

Cargo
    Bay 1:  Fighter (18)            2 Doors   
    Bay 2:  Small Craft (8)         2 Doors   
    Bay 3:  Cargo (184055.0 tons)   1 Door    

Ammunition:
    1,920 rounds of Anti-Missile System [IS] ammunition (160 tons), 
    60 rounds of White Shark ammunition (2,400 tons), 
    2,400 rounds of NAC/20 ammunition (4 tons)

Dropship Capacity: 6
Grav Decks: 3 (95 m, 65 m, 55 m)
Escape Pods: 12
Life Boats: 32
Crew:  102 officers, 420 enlisted/non-rated, 87 gunners, 76 bay personnel

Notes: Equipped with
    lithium-fusion battery system
    1 Naval Comm-Scanner Suite (Large)
   2,358 tons of lamellor ferro-carbide armor.

Weapons:                                       Capital Attack Values (Standard)
Arc (Heat)                                 Heat  SRV     MRV     LRV      ERV    Class       
Nose (1,030 Heat)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
4 Naval PPC (Medium)                       540  36(360) 36(360) 36(360) 36(360)  Capital PPC 
1 Capital Missile Launcher (White Shark)   15   3(30)   3(30)   3(30)    3(30)   Capital Missile
    White Shark Ammo (20 shots)
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
FRS/FLS (895 Heat)
3 Naval PPC (Medium)                       405  27(270) 27(270) 27(270) 27(270)  Capital PPC 
1 Capital Missile Launcher (White Shark)   15   3(30)   3(30)   3(30)    3(30)   Capital Missile
    White Shark Ammo (20 shots)
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
RBS/LBS (715 Heat)
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
3 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                180  60(600) 60(600) 60(600)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (300 shots)
3 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                180  60(600) 60(600) 60(600)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (300 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
ARS/ALS (880 Heat)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
3 Naval PPC (Medium)                       405  27(270) 27(270) 27(270) 27(270)  Capital PPC 
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
Aft (1,015 Heat)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
4 Naval PPC (Medium)                       540  36(360) 36(360) 36(360) 36(360)  Capital PPC 
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser

[Daryk]

Now THIS is where you put your NCSS! :)

Nice point defenses too.. ;)

[DOC_Agren]

Wait am I missing where this becomes a Boondoggle??

[Liam's Ghost]

Wait am I missing where this becomes a Boondoggle??

It's essentially ripping everything out of a Monsoon, then replacing it with all new stuff. From the weapons, propulsion, power, probably every associated subsystem, and possibly large sections of the hull that you had to cut through to get at those other things.

Between everything you had to rip out and everything you had to put back in, the amount of effort and labor cost could very well be equivalent to building an all new battleship instead. Hence, boondoggle.

(Now if it was something being put together by a state that didn't have the Star League's resources, maybe not. Depends on how valuable the jump core is relative to everything else).

[Daryk]

Jump cores are always the most expensive bit.

[Liam's Ghost]

Not necessarily the most labor intensive part, though. And, well, actual cost is relative, especially when you're the Terran Hegemony, you already own the core forges, shipyards, and germanium reserves, and you know what all the numbers look like. Heck, even if we assume the Hegemony doesn't have a vast stockpile of germanium and titanium stored up for shipbuilding, they do have a vast fleet of mothballed ships they could grind up for those resources, so material costs are basically zero.

(heck, the fact that they had a vast fleet of warships to both mothball and sell off to other states means there was absolutely no shortage of raw materials to build more ships)

Putting that much work into rebuilding an old hull is for poor people, or those rare times when the Hegemony is in a hurry.

[Daryk]

Good point, and excellent call back! :D

[Wildfire]

Wait am I missing where this becomes a Boondoggle??

As Liam's Ghost said it's basically strip back to jump core and the structral frames and rebuild outwards, new weapons, engines armour, senors, power and computer systems, it's not even cut holes to access sytems as the armour scheme changes completely.
 

[DOC_Agren]

Given that it was a the plan of some Admiral who I'm guessing had the juice and want this as his command ship..  I'm not sure it a Boondoggie but more of 1 of Updated Command Ship.

[Wildfire]

Okay if it’s an off command ship what would you pair it with as it division mate?

 Bonus point if it’s an older vessel that’s been repurposed?