Got comments and a question about mass and hulls...

Having been in the Navy, and served on a carrier, I can tell you those things are big. Once, we were alongside one of the resurrected battleships. Those guys were physically a lot smaller than a modern carrier. But whereas the carrier has a lot of empty space (the hangar deck), battleships have lots of dense armor.

If I remember correctly, those battleships were around the 45,000 to 60,000 ton zone. I think the Yamato was close to 70,000 tons. The WWII cruisers were closer to 15,000 tons, maybe more fully loaded. The huge Alaska class was often called a battlecruiser, and weighed in at around 30,000 tons.

My carrier, an older Forestal class one, was around 70,000 to 80,000 tons. Compare this to the biggest modern carriers that inch over the 100,000 ton mark. Wow. On the other hand, WWII destroyers were 2000 tons or less, and modern cruisers are rarely larger than the 5000 ton range. Some are, in fact, destroyers that have been redesigned as cruisers. The Ticonderoga class is just under 10,000 tons.

I threw these numbers out there to show what an incredible range of mass numbers you get on real naval vessels. If a "modern" cruiser in the 10,000 ton range is 10 hull, then modern carriers are hull 100.

However, I think this scale is probably not correct. Is hull linear to mass, or is space requirement linear to mass?

If its spaces, and the cruiser is around 10,000 tons and 2000 SU, this is roughly a 5 tons per SU ratio. A large 100,000 ton carrier would be 20,000 SU, which is approximately 60 Hull. A 45,000 ton battleship would be around 30 Hull or a little more.

Thats still a MUCH larger hull ratio than what people have been posting, where typically cruisers are 10ish and battleships are no more than 20ish.

My question is, is there something wrong with the way I am looking at this? Or is it just that in the sci-fi universes, the battleships are really closer to battlecruiser size compared to cruisers.

(Afterthought: let me quickly add that I KNOW I am comparing wet navy to spaceships and real world to sic-fi, and Starmada being what it is, I can define things how I like. I just happen to like having my various ship classes bear a passing resemblance to their relative real-world sizes...)

I would also note that in Star Fleet Battles, the original dreadnoughts came first, followed later by a small number of even larger ships that got called battleships, so whether by purpose or accident, they managed to preserve the historical relationship of which came first and which was bigger.

Thanks for the detailed example! That helped a lot. I had most of it right.

But... I thought the rating of the D7 was 282, not 275.

I am assuming that the ship is a 9 hull. When I start adding all of the various systems, it seems to be way over the space limits. That's the first and main thing I encountered. But also I think the combat rating is too low, meaning I had a value of something around 250.