This gets even more ridiculous when bays arrive. A small bay throwing 12 missiles or a large bay throwing 20 missiles defeated by a single beam laser and a single point defence roll. In the current rules 'large' bays fire 24 missiles, not 20. Even worse if one beam laser can auto kill the whole lot...

Something seems off. How can M2 rates be lower than M1 rates? The drives and PP have to be bigger, more cost and less tonnage for Pax and Freight. Does not make sense. Its the small increase in size and cost going from M1 to M2 compared to the big drop in travel times, above M2 you are looking at f...

Maybe one power per turret just to power the turret and systems then give Missiles and Sand power 0. So a triple laser is 13 power not 12 but a triple missile is 1. If they are allocating power to sensors and systems in high guard then adding turrets isn't going to be a big problem and you can just ...

Samcollins wrote:Is the Hull rating of 80 wrong? For 800dton ship? A

Its a delicate little thing, doesn't like getting hurt

The printer version says 40 Hull

Should be 160 though.

Limited fuel is a problem across just about every single ship.

Someone needs to mention it to the mongoose guys and girls

So now a missile launcher is a Missile Rack with 12 missiles in it. OK A gunner can reload a turret in 1 round, OK. What provisions are made for Autoloaders? Also what, if any, benefit should you get from having a missile magazine right next to the turret as opposed to a spare missile rack sitting ...

Smart Missiles, even if fired from the same turret at the same time, should not all impact on the exact same part of the hull. In fact, they should be designed to spread out a bit and present harder targets (1 shot doesn't kill multiple missiles). I agree the rules as written make sense for light-s...

The intent seems to be that 3 missiles fired from a triple missile turret are treated as one attack. The gunner makes one roll to fire them, they make one to-hit roll when they reach their target, a defender makes one roll to shoot them all down with point defense, and they do 4D+8 damage if they h...

Free Trader: MCr46.4 Far Trader: MCr55.1 (sorry I am NOT going to list the price down to 5 significant figures..!) So allowing a Traveller to select the Far Trader rather than a Free Trader is given them a 25% bonus. (hummm funny how that number strikes a cord...) Perhaps make a comment that if the...

Oh and the Yacht / safari ship.

Something the cropped up in the Sindal forum got me thinking. Can anyone see any good reason why the Free Trader benefit should not be made into a choice of Free Trader or Far Trader? Far Trader allows better exploration for players, Free Trader allows more profit (potentially). Giving this option ...

The stewardesses need something to do, especially beverage dispensing, whether cold or hot, from the galley. They get to stand behind the captain in camera shot so they can look frightened when the ship is in combat and then can run around or fall over as the bridge sways from side to side. Same ap...

Isomorphic deck plans are labeled wrongly, the bridge and drive is the upper deck, image shows the turret and the air raft hatch on the top deck and the bulge for the drives being on the upper part of the hull. Also whats with the small craft hanger, does it have an air tight door at the back that c...

nawara wrote:Also, the Laboratory Ship is the only ship in the entire book without a computer.

It's full of science types, they don't need no stinkin computers

WHAT ! ! ! !

Give up the coffee makers and luxury options in the gunnery control !

Never.

You'll be asking the Engineers to dismantle the jump drive stills next

A triple turret with a mixed loadout is not able to fire all weapons, it's only able to fire one weapon in the combat round, check the last sentence of the first paragraph under Double and Triple Turrets. As to the rest, I agree multiple missiles from the same turret fired at the same time needs cl...

You've made a an assumption that we need clarified I think: a) Does a triple missile turret fire 3 missiles separately? As per the rules right now, it just fired once at 4D+8 damage as far as I can tell. You can't choose to fire weapons of the same type as "separate". The second part is simple - th...

Those Gunners need a full sized top of the range coffee machine to keep them focused :D As for the power cost. That one point is powering the fire control, the turret rotation and tracking systems, the auto load mechanisms for the missile or sand, the gunners workstation AND his coffee machine. All...

For the standard ships the fuel used is a lot less than first edition which makes it very easy to simply add a bit of extra fuel. For example the Free and Far Traders (60 and 75 power) use 1Dton of fuel for two weeks, adding another Dton of fuel is hardly going to be a huge change though the fuel on...

Needs to cover more ships though to allow players to access something other than the Free Trader if they want longer jump range or just something different from their career. Scout gets a jump 2 scout, Scholar gets a jump 2 lab ship, Rogues get a non existent jump 2 ship, merchants get a jump 1 ship...