hi, I'm running a game that will involve chirpers/droyne. Wondering if anyone in the UK had any good ideas for miniatures that'll do a reasonable job filling in for them? You mean other than actual Droyne Figures? RAFM has them in 15mm, there where a couple in the Grenadier Box set in 25mm, then th...

I incorporated some of the Mongoose 1st edition rules with Book2/Mayday. Works fine. Haven't really bothered to do so with the 2nd edition.

Also Note neither 1st or 2nd edition of Mongooses ship rules use any sort of a vector system, so a fair amount of adaptation is required.

Honest question: how much do any of us actually USE the deckplans of all the ships we create and share? Quite often, though to be honest most of my layouts aren't ship's per say, but places for the player's and by extension their miniatures to run around and play in. I have a theory that a good per...

domingojs23 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:32 am

What's the latest on this ? Thanks !

Ask ADB....

The answer is simple, pick the one that fits your game.

arcador wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:04 am

I read somewhere that the linked book is better than the original robots book, but I haven't read it; at this point, my info is a rumour.

Nope not a rumor, the 13Mann Robots book is much better than the Mongoose book for construction.

The image isn't showing up. Right-clicking and choosing "View Image" takes me login.live.com and prompts me to log in to Microsoft Live. I modified the image hosting to imgur. Please let me know if it is visible for you now. Thanks! It's working from here. Thanks for posting the comparison.

Well, I have quite a bunch of those RAFM (and Grenadier) minis, and I can assure you they are not compatible in size with the newer "heroic" 28mm castings that have become the standard of this industry since then. I'll try to post some pics later. Yah, I know, but 28mm when they came out and 28mm n...

If the new Traveller boarding action game uses that same scale, we could have the very first Aslan minis that size (you can find Vargr proxies, but finding Aslan is another matter entirely).. I have plenty in 15mm... What I could use are some Aslan and Vargr in full environment suits. But let's not...

In MgT2 High Guard, we have the "Primitive and Advanced Spacecraft" rules. For advanced spacecraft, you can upgrade your drives at higher tech levels to gain certain advantages. My question to the community is: Would you allow your ship's engineers to perform such work? If it makes a better game fo...

This works out to 30,000 dtons for a 200 car train. Try closer to 2,600 dTons figuring on 45ft containers... In general ports in the US move around 45 million TEU equivalents per year. in rough Traveller terms that would be 180 million dTons of cargo for the USA alone. From that number one could sa...

This works out to 30,000 dtons for a 200 car train. Try closer to 2,600 dTons figuring on 45ft containers... In general ports in the US move around 45 million TEU equivalents per year. in rough Traveller terms that would be 180 million dTons of cargo for the USA alone. From that number one could sa...

But that would be going backwards... :D I still use the 1st edition rules where it was 3 damage to for each vehicle hit. I don't know what you mean by "backwards", but the 1st edition's 3 damage per vehicle hit also looks like a good way to go. It would make tough vehicles proportionately tougher, ...

Add +6 Armour and +6 Hull to all vehicles, and +1 Armour and +1 Hull to all spacecraft (that's +10 each on the character scale). It's easy to remember, and if you do this for every vehicle and ship stat block, it keeps their comparative defenses relatively balanced. But that would be going backward...

I can say from first hand experience that the Navy (Well, the Australian Navy at least) take them very seriously as weapons for a boarding party. Clearing and crew control are jobs shotguns are perfect for in the tight confines of a ship. I can't say I'd like to have one in an open field, but their...

Most modern militaries do not take shotguns seriously as combat weapons anymore No, they take them quite seriously. The are a special weapon used in a number of circumstances. Mostly centered around Close Quarters Combat. i.e. Boarding actions, close urban combat and entries is where you will see t...

I mean if you fire a missile at a target and they run away isn't that almost as good as damage ing them. It's not like they can easily turnaround once your missiles burnout. Your not taking into account m-drives which provide thrust so long as energy is devoted to it, which means yes a fighter can ...

I know this was debated a lot before the first book was published, but I was reading an article about Turkey's S400 purchase and the size of the launcher and missile made me think that the Traveller version is still broken - especially since we regularly have designs popping up that have starships ...

TrippyHippy wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:12 am

Absolutely. Have been arguing this for years - the Troupe style play is absolutely suited to Traveller.

It's not like we haven't discussed it before. It works amusingly well.

Rikki Tikki Traveller wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:06 pm

I have always envisioned that a Highport would be at the Geosynchronis orbit above the Downport.

Well that is the assumption according to 40 years of Fluff...