Recent content by swampslug

The key part of the hyperdrive rules is that while within hyperspace a ship moves "a number of parsecs equal to its Thrust per hour, up to a maximum of the hyperdrive's rating". Thrust is a property of the M-drive not the hyperdrive. Your speed is therefore the lower of your M-drive and...

Page 23 of 2300AD book 3 has rules for winches, hopefully they will migrate to the vehicle handbook when it gets updated.

Is that still there? I recall that being mentioned in the Kickstarter comments when the Field Catalogue was first released. Speaking of the Kickstarter, as the Field Catalogue is one of the stretch goals, should those of us who backed the project not have it already added to our DriveThruRPG...

Agreed, if we consider modern AFVs, the small turret should be the equivalent of the remote weapon stations/remote turrets of modern APCs/IFVs, which typically mount either a medium or heavy machinegun or grenade launcher for APCs, or a single 25/30mm autocannon for IFVs. The Vilkas variant of...

Frankly the numbers for this are all over the place. Page 151 presents the Kaefer reaction drives, which appear to be the same size as the human drives, but 10% more fuel efficient. Since the Kaefer nuclear OMS thruster uses 0.0675% of hull tonnage per Burn, the human version should use 0.075%...

That -1 per 100t penalty to the dogfighting roll is not new, I can find it in my PDF copy of the core rules from 2016. The only change I can see to the dogfighting rules is the removal of the -6 to all attacks.

I will definitely support the call for an ecology themed book. I really enjoy throwing animal encounters at my players and more example animals or an expanded set of animal creation rules would be really appreciated. However, as others have mentioned I think a book on the wider subject of...

I would also like to add that I think the Auto values on weapons are high across the board (unreasonably so in some cases). Vehicle Handbook gives: Auto 3: Early Machinegun, Light Autocannon Auto 5: Rotary Autocannon CSC gives: Auto 2/3: most autofire capable rifles Auto 3: Heavy Machinegun...

Book 1, page 8 under Homeworld: "Core World Travellers will be covered in a future supplement."

Tsk, tsk Matthew. The reference to Beta Centauri as a Core system still exists on the introduction page (Book 1, page 3). I commented in April in the other thread that Beta Centauri is an actual star system 390 lightyears from Sol and not part of the trinary system composed of Alpha Centauri A...

I would say it should be an OR. The law level is not just an indicator of which items are restricted/illegal but also of law enforcement presence, response and tolerance. The higher the Law level, the more likely an individual is to be approached by law enforcement and the harsher the sentence...

I'm counting only 10 crew and the implication of a separate passenger value is that they are in addition to the 10 crew. This means every room would be double bunked and you still have to find space to squeeze 6 people. If the entry were meant to indicate 10 crew + 6 non-crew I would expect the...

Not that I know of, but it has been mentioned in the Core Rulebook Reprint thread.

For a military vessel I tend to run it as only one gunner per weapon system (excl. spinals) is required to fire the weapon. They sit in the CIC/gun control room and have the Gunner and Electronics (sensors) skills. All other "gunners" are maintenance personnel responsible for maintaining the...

I hope by that you mean the reference to Beta Centauri being a Core system. Beta Centauri is a separate trinary star system from Alpha Centauri and is 390 light-years from Sol, while Alpha Centauri is 4.4 light-years away. Proxima Centauri, while separated from the Alpha Centauri AB pair by...