Large Craft in MegaMek, MegaMekLab, and MekHQ

From the 0.45.1 Dev release (Released September 3rd/2018)

Something very important about the Large Craft Data files – they have all been remade to match the rules in Strategic Operations and Interstellar Operations. Consider TRO 3057R was released in 2004 which was 2 years before Total Warfare, and 4 years prior to Strategic Operations so the units currently in Megamek are based of the old Aerotech 2 and AT2 Revised Rules.

We’ve done considerable research, input from elements of the aerospace cabal, and working with the old stats to come up with revised stats that match the current rules. In most cases the ships lost some cargo space. We’ve also reworked names to better reflect the introduction of the ships. We’ve also added some ships described in various fluff. Going forward we are going to consider these redesign ships as “Our Fixed Canon Ships”. This will be one of those very rare times we won't match the MUL or the TRO. If CGL ever decides to update the ship designs we'll be certain to update the designs to those stats.

Anyone who has made Large craft by hand will find errors loading these ships, there is a huge amount of code that has changed to make these ships build able and numerous tags and equipment names have got changes. In addition, these ships are now validated against the construction rules. The only option is to remake them in MegaMekLab.

January 25th/2014 We are providing the files from the 0.44.0 Stable release for those that want in the original files. Use at our own risk for any release after 0.44.0 dropships.zip smallcraft.zip spacestation.zip warship.zip