Hopefully they bought the hull from someone else and refitted it to taste?  It's certainly a decent pocket battleship, for a country that might reasonably be suffering from dreadnaught envy. 

The designs themselves seem okay to me, not over the top in terms of cost or equipment or anything.  Not quite sure why they *need* an ether squadron, but whatever.  Foolish military expenditures are a very 1890's kind of thing.

Rich

Okay, Thailand I could see with these.  And yes, I think you've "etherized" their historical pocket battleships quite nicely.

Shame the game doesn't have rules for oversized guns shaking a ship to pieces, really.  It should be even more of a problem in space...what's worse, a little water coming in, or all your air bleeding out? 

Rich

Something like that would make a neat addition to the ship design system.  Allow players to take flawed designs with built-in drawbacks in exchange for a reduction in cost.  I can think of examples, but what the cost (well, rebate) would be I'm not sure:

Overgunned - Every time the ship fires a Keel Bombard or more than 1/2 of its Primaries in one turn, it suffers a x1 damage roll (d20) as it shakes itself to pieces.  Reduce OR contribution of Keel Bombards and Primaries by ?

Clumsy - Ship makes turns as though it were the next size category larger.  Not available for VL hulls.  Reduce DR by ?

Poor Turret Layout - Ship can never fire more than 1/2 of its Primaries at a single target.  Reduce OR contribution of Primaries by ?

Poor Tube Layout - Ship can fire only 1/2 or its Torpedoes in a single turn.  Reduce OR contribution of Torpedoes by ?

Vulnerable Gun Mounts - Some or all of the ship's guns are vulnerable to magazine flashbacks.  Any damage scored against an affected gun wrecks that mount *and* triggers another (d20) damage roll...which can destroy another Vulnerable gun and trigger another damage roll, ad infinitum.  Reduces DR by ?  Or maybe OR contribution of the chosen gun(s)?

Good way to add a little more character, and to reflect the often-shoddy nature of experimental naval architecture.

Rich

Maybe weapons' OR x0.75?

DR x0.77

Primaries OR x0.67

Don't know that this would really have an impact...

This would depend upon the percent chance of rolling the affected guns on the damage track. i.e., if the guns come up 5 of 20 times, then the DR should be reduced by 20/25.

I like the idea... any more suggestions?

Also, would these be chosen by the designer, or might they be tied to certain design choices -- i.e., perhaps the "overgunned" flaw shows up if you have more than X weapons on a size Y ship...

Perhaps "non-factor" is an overstatement, but I don't know quite how to quantify it.

Which, in practice, is the same thing.

Yes, please, the Thais are getting upset...:D