[TML] Molding Ships

[James Ramsay]

Charles Prevatte wrote:
>
> Sorry, you missed the point.  I was mainly talking about what a very small
> group of "space men" and their ship could have done reasonably in that
> situation.  Even a very few spy or comunications sats would have taken more
> tech than could be cobbled together from one small space ship.
Leonard already answered this. If the ship has a missile turret they 
could probably launch a ton of sats and never leave the ground.

> While upgradeing a factory, or even several, to produce year 2000+ engines for
> helecopters would have been trivial.  
Combat useful helos require more than the airframe. Training the pilots 
would take significant amounts of time, especially as you have to start 
the training program with no senior pilots.

> Boot straping the electronics era in the WW1 era would have been nearly imposible due to the ammount of supporting technologies that would have to also be boot strapped.  But high grade light engines for choppers and/or aircraft is mostly limited by tollerences in the machine processes available at that time.  The best use of the available computing power would be to improve a factory to produce a
> product that could tip the balence of the war.  By your own statement above
> you yourself say as much.  
No I don't. I said increasing production of already combat active 
machines or doing minor improvements to those machines (such as the 
T-34/85), and improving logistics using the computers on a space ship 
would be a better idea. Improved logistics and satellite tracking would 
affect the outcome of a war more then 50's and 60's war machines.

Of course given how tough the average Traveller ship is, you could just 
load it up with commandos and crash into the Reich stag, or other 
important HQ.

Garry Ward wrote:
> The early successes in WWII were due in a large part to the logistics 
> advantage of the new mechanized warfare over the previous horse/wagon/foot 
> methods.

No they weren't. The logistics chain of the Wehrmacht  was largely 
compromised of horse drawn wagons for the entire war. Blitzkrieg was a 
strategy of quick breakthrough and elimination of enemy command and 
logistics elements, not a logistics method.

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