Traveller Batteries and Gunners

[snrdg082102]

Evening all,

IIRC HG2 mentioned that grouping turrets into batteries can reduce the number of gunners needed. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to recall, find the page, or figure out how to calculate the number of gunners needed when multiple turrets with the same weapon are grouped into a battery under.

Three triple beam laser turrets designated as 3 batteries of one turret should have three gunners assigned.

Grouping the three triple beam lasers into a single battery, if IIRC correctly, should have one gunner.

So far my attempts at creating a formula hasn't worked.

Can someone help me create something that works?

 

[HiverLord]

Greetings!

HG2 (1980), page 32:
"Gunnery Section: The ship should have a chief gunnery officer and at least one petty officer for each type of weapon aboard. The major weapon (spinal mount) should have a crew of one per 100 tons of weapon; bay weapons should have a crew of at least two; turret weapons should have a crew of at least one per battery. Each screen device (force field, damper, meson screen) should have a crew of at least four. The gunnery section should have 10% officers, and 30% petty officers. Personnel are drawn from the gunnery branch and the technical services branch."
(emphasis mine)

It states in the ship design rules that all batteries must be the same number of turrets and weapons per turret.

Hope this helps.

 

[snrdg082102]

Hello HiverLord,

Thanks for the reply and providing the book and page number. Unfortunately, my slight problem is trying to implement the concept in a spreadsheet.

I appear to have something that appears to work, but I would feel a lot better if another forum member has been using a method that has been tested and working a lot longer that a couple of hours.

Again thank-you for the reply.

Greetings!

HG2 (1980), page 32:
"Gunnery Section: The ship should have a chief gunnery officer and at least one petty officer for each type of weapon aboard. The major weapon (spinal mount) should have a crew of one per 100 tons of weapon; bay weapons should have a crew of at least two; turret weapons should have a crew of at least one per battery. Each screen device (force field, damper, meson screen) should have a crew of at least four. The gunnery section should have 10% officers, and 30% petty officers. Personnel are drawn from the gunnery branch and the technical services branch."
(emphasis mine)

It states in the ship design rules that all batteries must be the same number of turrets and weapons per turret.

Hope this helps.