Romulan Fleet

[Teaos]

Troops have gear and other needs.

[Deepcrush]

So does a crew. Doesn't mean you can fit it if you try.

[Deepcrush]

The GCS can carry 6k troops? Where is that from?

TNG - Yesterdays Enterprise

[Aaron]

My hand hasn't been broken in months, even though two of my fingers did heal weird. By weird I mean weird angles that just don't look right. I might take a week off of work and have my friend reset them for me.

That's not what I meant.

[Teaos]

Yeah thats what I thought...

[Captain Seafort]

"The Ensigns of Command" also states that the E-D can accomodate at least 15,000 passengers, at least on a short term basis. With all the equipment troops would require, plus the necessity to keep them combat ready while they're aboard, 6,000 seems about right for the "real" GCS as well.

[Mikey]

that vacum could carry troops between places so long as their being alive wasnt important.

Interestingly, from what we've seen of infantry action in 'Trek, having the ground-pounders arrive dead may not be that much of a negative adjustment.

[Sionnach Glic]

I don't think the D'Deridex has a great troop-carrying capacity, personaly. When they went to invade Vulcan, they had a whopping 2000 troops on their ships. If they could fit more on board, don't you think they would have?

[Captain Seafort]

I don't think the D'Deridex has a great troop-carrying capacity, personaly. When they went to invade Vulcan, they had a whopping 2000 troops on their ships. If they could fit more on board, don't you think they would have?

All those troops were on the captured Vulcan ships disguised as a peace mission - they were are Tojan Horse, not a conventional assault force. Whether they thought that would be enough to secure the planet (in which case they're idiots) or they intended to secure key areas of the planet and then launch a full scale invasion to reinforce them is unclear.

[Deepcrush]

I don't think the D'Deridex has a great troop-carrying capacity, personaly. When they went to invade Vulcan, they had a whopping 2000 troops on their ships. If they could fit more on board, don't you think they would have?

Those were little Vulcan transports that they were using. Only one D'D was there at the time which most likely would have been the ship to deliver the troops. We could without any stretch there for take that the D'D was indeed supporting 2,000 troops.

Interestingly, from what we've seen of infantry action in 'Trek, having the ground-pounders arrive dead may not be that much of a negative adjustment.

That and in fact they may even save resource. Now you don't have to feed them anymore. Is it me or is this starting to sound like a Russian Army tactic?

[Mikey]

To be fair, the Russian Army didn't actually deliver dead troops to the front... they just didn't take any great pains to make sure they stayed in their current condition.

[Deepcrush]

Its close enough.

[Sionnach Glic]

Hmm, seems I mis-remembered the episode.

[Deepcrush]

By a good bit too.... Nice job mister smarty pants!

[Bryan Moore]

Lets just assume the design works and is very versatile. If this is the case, it all comes down to interchangable parts. It's significantly easier to build a whole lot of one big thing than a bunch of different smaller things.