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Afternoon all,

Quick question, the Galliot starship hull is meant to be a close in boarding ship with lots of marines on board as far as I can tell. However for the life of me I can't find any indication of how many marines might be carried on one of these hulls as listed in the hull chart in the players guide (page 379). Anyone have any idea? Are their any sample galliot designs in older edition sourcebooks to go from?

My best guess as these things are slightly larger than a frigate but with 10 less weapon hard points is that it may have maybe about 15 HP worth of extra troops on board as a baseline. Using the 1HP = 10 tons of cargo = 1 stateroom formula, that could be about 30 marines, possibly up to 75 for a short trip.

Any thoughts from anyone?

Why I ask is that the campaign that I am running is getting to the point that the heroes are going to be violently retaking the orbital station that is their rightful fief, except that the younger brother usurped his older brother (murdering parents and framing the older brother in the process of course). I've been looking at transport options for this endeavour and a Galliot may fit the bill.

Thanks in advance for any and or all help!

My guess an Assault Lander might hold more troops for an invasion.

Tough I believe the Galliots are an intermediate kind of ship. Tougher than frigates, tough fast and with more weapons.

Of course, you can make any ship a troop transport with grappling hooks, blow torches and brave (insane) men to jump at the enemies.

From Noble Armada they generally have about 20 marines.