+Oltux72 Posted July 29, 2020 Report Share Posted July 29, 2020 The short version - he did not think about aircraft carriers Those airships have a performance characteristic that limits them. They have limited range and their performance drops with range. That means that airships closer to "base" and engine will always be at an advantage. Thus you can give yourself an advantage if you move your base closer to your area of operation. The very first thing Thaylen naval engineers will come up with when they think this through is the airship carrier. It won't be exactly like an aircraft carrier, in particular it won't have many small aircraft for one big ship, but few large aircraft, but it is at the core the basic concept. Steampunk Roshar will be interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted July 29, 2020 Report Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Oltux72 said: The short version - he did not think about aircraft carriers There are problems to setting up a conjoiner while at sea. Aircraft carries will take a while if they ever happen. Edited July 29, 2020 by Karger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftl Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 I'd say Kmaki is right, because he's not really trying to predict the specifics of how warfare will be, just recognizing that it will never be the same. He's forward-thinking; he can see the potential for the new technology. Troop transports allowing logistics as never before. Mobile archery platforms can transform skirmishes. Seamless transition between land and sea travel. Even the very first prototype is able to go twice the speed of a forced march; he might well be thinking ahead to what will happen after another 5-10 years of innovation. Maybe the next generation of airships will move at the speed of galloping horses and not chulls. So even if aircraft carriers are possible and useful, naval warfare will still be unrecognizable. A navy built out of a small number of very large ships, transporting the machinery that enables flying machines to range out from them - that's nothing like what the navy is for him today. Maybe then there'll be a new ship class - submarines, also propelled by fabrials, to hunt down the aircraft carriers without ever surfacing to be hunted down by airships. Who knows! It'll be incredible stuff to read about. But I can see why Kmaki is thinking about how obsolete he is becoming. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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