Oil Fired Levs?

[Deathrider6]

  I'm sure that Oil burning Lev's would probably not appropriatie to the setting but would an oil fueled Lev be a possibility as naval (aeronaval) technology advanced? Gasoline would just be way to hazardous but I suspect that in the coming decades in the Lev-verse Oil fired levs could become the standard. Any thoughts on this from the Dev side?

[Worktroll]

There are a number of oil-fired leviathans - mainly sky destroyers (type 1s). The French have more oil-fired type 2s than most, but still we're talking handfuls.

There are four main barriers to going massively oil-fired in-game 1910:
- no infrastructure. Navies have just spent decades building up strategic coal stocks around the world.
- availability. The world production of 'rock oil' is (at this time) very small
- Use of coal bunkers as 'damage sinks'; you don't want to try this with oil tanks
- tradition. No "new-fangles smelly sticky rock oil on my skyship, thank you very much!"

The tide will turn - is beginning to turn, in fact - but (for example) it wasn't (IIRC) until the Queen Elizabeth classes that the Brits got full advantage from a crew- and space-efficient oil-fired rig.

W.

[Deathrider6]

That is actually what I thought to be honest but wanted to be sure. Thanks for the rapid response.