It's been a while since i read the novels or played through all games, but wasn't the Broadsword size the whole reason for the Crossbow and reconfiguring the Sabre as a bomber, with the Broadsword not fitting into the hangars of escort carriers?
Yeah, the
Broadsword was too big, which is why the
Wake-class used
Sabres in the torpedo bomber role.
Lemme see...ah, here's what I figured for the
Broadsword (from the WC2 manual).
826 1139 length = 36 m / 313 pixels
196 367 draft = 19.67 m/ 171 pixels
399 705 beam = 35.19 m / 306 pixels
bb = 24,918.7428 (SC 13)
Probably that twenty-meter draft that was the limitation there...
Incidentally, the
Broadsword you see in Privateer is much smaller...but it's also a lot weaker; not really a bomber at that point, more of a missile boat.
144 272 = 128 ==> 24.00 length
218 420 = 202 ==> 37.88 beam
16 178 = 162 ==> 24.00 length
90 160 = 70 ==> 10.37 draft
bb = 9,427.57 m^3 (SC11)
Here's the
Sabre (from the WC2 manual):
109 - 1206 = 1097 ==> 23.60 m length
289 - 791 = 502 ==> 10.80 m draft
833 - 1727 = 894 ==> 19.23 m beam
bb = 4,901.34 m^3 (SC10)
And finally the
Crossbow (from the CIC ship database):
192 328 = 136 ==> 24.00 m length
211 242 = 31 ==> 5.47 m draft
173 316 = 143 ==> 25.24 m beam
bb=3,313.51 m^3 (SC10)
If that's what you do, i'd like to point out that i don't know if i rendered every angle with the same zoom factor.
Shouldn't matter; each individual view ought to be proportional to itself, hence the reason why I measure the length in both pics.
The Saga model dimensions in PCS2 are however:
H: 7.99, W: 13.98, D: 18.35, Mass: 644.522705
Let's see what that turns up...
D: 18.35 == 16.00 m (0.8719 m/distance unit)
W: 13.98 == 12.19 m
H: 7.99 == 6.97 m
bb = 1,359.43 m^3 (SC8)
So, a little bit different. Not sure why I was so far off on the height...
Also you can use the D&D approach and just use 6-8 size classes in order not to go insane.
If you get grey hair while doing this, remember that I've warned you.
Of course, I'm using the D&D approach. And I already have grey hair, but thanks for your concern anyways...
Yeah, I think that one is explained somewhere. Can't remember where though.
End Run. It's one of Bondarevsky's complaints about the
Wake-class when he first arrives, IIRC.