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Onno Meyer, 2006-12-03
Archvillain's Yacht (1920s Version) v1.0 (TL6)
Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer
An Evil Overlord with style will not be confined to a clammy mountain
fastness. With a yacht like this, he - or she - can travel with all the
comforts of home.
The yacht is powered by twin steam turbines for a top speed just over
30 knots. The superstructure has four luxury cabins for the Archvillain
and trusted lieutenants or honored guests. A fifth luxury cabin down in
the hull has sturdy locks to detain involuntary visitors. The henchmen
share four double cabins and two rather spartan bunkrooms.
The yacht is armed with three concealed 2.25" naval guns and one 40mm
autocannon on a deck mount. A dry dock in the stern holds the customary
escape vehicle, probably a speedboat or a midget sub. A slowly flooding
dock would be a death trap worthy of a cliffhanger ending, too.
At routine travel speed, the two turbines burn 360 gallons of diesel
per hour. The diesel generator uses 4 gallons per hour. A full load of
fuel, ammunition and provisions is $21,000.
Subassemblies: Body +8, Superstructure +6, full-rotation Open Mount +3,
full-rotation Open Mount +1.
Powertrain: Two 3,000-kW screw propellers; two 3,000-kW steam turbines;
100-kW marine diesel; 100,000-kWs lead-acid batteries.
Fuel: 50,000 gallons diesel ( fire 10).
Occ: 4 bridge RCS (Sup), 6 RCS (Sup), 1 XNCS (OM1), 16 bunks (Body), 4
cabins (Body), 4 luxury cabins (Sup).
Cargo: 3,200 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40 4/40
Superstructure: 4/20 4/20 4/20 4/20
Open Mount 2: 4/25
Weaponry
40mm Autocannon [OM2:F] (500 rounds) +0.
2.25" Quick-Firing Gun [Sup:L] (100 rounds) +0.
2.25" Quick-Firing Gun [Sup:R] (100 rounds) +0.
2.25" Quick-Firing Gun [Sup:B] (100 rounds) +0.
Equipment:
Body: 5-mile passive sonar; fire extinguisher system; complete
workshop; brig (luxury cabin); brig (four bunks); 1,000-cf dry dock; two
5,000-lb. external cradles; 50-man environmental controls; 500 man-days
of provisions. Superstructure: Door mounts for three 2.25" Quick-Firing
Guns; signal lamp; whistle; very-long-range radio; long-range radio; two
4-mile searchlights; two sets of navigation instruments; sensitive radio
direction finder; 25-man bar. Open Mount 1: 5-ton crane. Open Mount 2:
Universal mount for 40mm Autocannon. External: 700-sf covered top deck
(Superstructure); 1,500-sf covered top deck (Body).
Statistics
Size: 120'x20'x30' Payload: 200 tons Lwt.: 500 tons
Volume: 48,210 cf Maint.: 7 man-hours Price: $2,105,180
HT: 7. HPs: 12,000 Body, 3,750 Superstructure, 400 Open Mount 1,
120 Open Mount 2
wSpeed: 35 wAccel: 0.1 wDecel: 0.25(0.3) wMR: 0.05 wSR: 5
Draft 9.3'. Flotation rating 900 tons.
Design Notes
Body is 40,000 cf with very fine lines. Superstructure is 8,000 cf.
Open Mount 1 is 180 cf. Open Mount 2 is 30 cf. Structure is medium and
expensive, with heavy compartmentalization and roll stabilizers. Armor
is expensive metal. Waterproofed. Mechanical controls with duplicate
maneuver controls. 305.13 cf of empty space in the body and 454.9 cf of
empty space in the superstructure. 500 rounds of 40mm SAPHE, 100 rounds
of 2.25" AP, 20 rounds of 2.25" smoke and 180 rounds of 2.25" SAPHE are
stored in the superstructure. Empty weight is 600,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
40mm Autocannon 320 6.4 $2,600 - 2.4 0.024 $3.6 6
2.25" QF Gun 880 17.6 $5,400 - 12 0.08 $18[1] 6
[1] AP, also fires SAPHE and CHEM(smoke) (x2/3 cost and weight).
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
40mm Autocannon SAPHE crit. cr. 6d*4(0.5) 20 13 700 3,900 8
plus exp. 3d[4d]
2.25" QF Gun AP crit. cr. 6d*7(2) 25 14 1,300 5,600 1/3
SAPHE crit. cr. 6d*7(0.5) 14 1,300 5,600
plus exp. 9d-1[4d]
CHEM(smoke) crit. spcl. 12 yards 14 1,300 5,600
The vehicle uses the design rules from GURPS Vehicles [second edition,
third printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXii (including the armor volume rule)
and the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A getaway sub.
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