Recent content by actionman

I'm past caring.

I've watched a few BSG2 videos today for that reason, and your conclusion is correct. The fighters would strafe and engage Cylon raiders, and the Battlestar would maneuver to use its main guns or missiles against the base stars.

Agreed.

Yes, to each his own. If the way fighters are in the rules aren't you, simply house rule the issue at your table. Fighters make perfect sense according to Traveller's rules already, and what you're suggesting is to change those rules to favor a particular playstyle.

Something like: Generate the star(s). Generate the stellar bodies in the star system. Generate the UWPs of the stellar bodies. Generate the moons of the stellar bodies. Generate the UWPs of the moons of the stellar bodies. All random or procedurally generated according to Traveller system...

I have to disagree with you here. Some of us don't desire to set our scifi games in some kind of magical realm where desire bends logic and the rules. Really, what's the point. I desire to be a cool fighter jock who always wins and Princess Iphigenia really loves me. If there are special...

I would've spelled pew pew differently, but the forum probably wouldn't care for my colorful language. But seriously, I was just thinking about that and how tragically silly it was. I watched a Star Wars vid someone posted about Poe Dameron shooting up the dreadnaught so the bombers could get...

Culture drones were in an obscure issue of a third party Traveller Ship's Locker article. They fly to within broadcast range and broadcast Culture Beat on all frequencies so that enemy crews will be unable to fight because they'll be grooving too hard. Any enemy ships still functioning will...

This is a dangerous path. It's the path of creating an arbitrary rule for a particular metagame effect, like making fighters viable so players who want to play fighter pilots attacking much larger ships can do that. Then this arbitrary rule has follow on effects that affect other things in the...

If possible, i'd like it to include the ability to generate UWP for all planets in the system, not just the main world. Star(s) Planetary bodies, asteroid belts, etc. UWPs for all appropriate bodies in the star system Let the user designate the mainworld.

Even if the maneuverability of large craft were nerfed, the problem would remain. The fighters would be facing a large target bristling with point defense weapons, while being small, relatively fragile, and under-armed.

I love it how the futuristic dreadnought turbolaser surface cannons have pathetically worse performance than rl CIWS systems or Expanse point defense cannons. I know Star Wars is just a movie, but Expanse is just a show. Expanse is just a show, but it's a show where the writers made a good...

It's a good tactic, but maybe light jump 1 gunships would be a better choice, jump capable so they can microjump around their assigned system if necessary. A group of 5 x 500 ton gunships would prove more than a match for any corsairs that showed up. Free Traders / Pirates of Convenience would...

Sitting in filled diapers for months. The volunteers would be lining up. Would we be moving into smallcraft territory, like pinnaces and ship's boats, rather than fighters? These fighters would have to have at least a crew of 2. Pilot candy only goes so far, usually into a fairyland of...

Agreed, and I doubt that they would have much use at all. Small 100 or 200 ton battle rider gunboats might be useful and provide the a similar Cool Fighter Pilot vibe.