Recent content by AnotherDilbert

You can do with them what you want... It's just a shorthand to how warships work. If you want a naval campaign, with clashing squadrons or warships, use it to play. If you don't, it tells the relative strengths of warships, roughly who will win between e.g. three Impie destroyers and a Zho...

No, screens prevent actual inflicted damage, as per p41. It makes no sense whatsoever for 60 Dtons of screens to automatically stop 7500 Dtons worth of spinal.

Yes. Meson screen should use the Angle Screen reaction (HG, p41 textbox), so multiply by the Effect of the Angle Screen roll. Still, 20 meson screens are mostly decoration... A few hundred Dtons of screens will not stop 66 000 Dtons of spinal. So, 20 screens, each preventing (CrewSkill +...

Plasma and fusion worked perfectly well as PD in CT HG'80 and hence MT: HG'80, p45: HG'79 even allowed Particle Accelerators to PD:

Of course they work against torpedoes as well as missiles, presumably at the normal 50% rate.

It's not a skill check, just a roll. There's no gunner, and no computer software, involved. Each Type III battery destroys 6D missiles, only modified as per HG, p40. They add together with themselves. One type III destroys 6D missiles, two type IIIs destroys 12D missiles. It's automatic, i.e...

Sorry, I apparently didn't read closely enough. As a large warship it should have Adv Fire Control/3 and Fire Control/5 for the spinal at least? Crits can be repaired in the Action Phase before the next turn. Power Plant crits are not a crippling problem... "Destroyed" fuel tanks and jump...

Comments on the ship: Why the small computer? A Core/100 is a trivial cost. Darrians are supposed to be good at computers? Software: Just include it all? Repair Drones needs Auto Repair for full effect. Power: You have ~twice as much as you need? Fuel Processor woefully underdimensioned. At...

It's not good, but in an emergency, better than nothing... See X-Boat, HG'22, p158. At 0.5 Dt ≈ 7 m3 a re-entry capsule is presumably much sturdier and more capable than a vacc suit, essentially a tiny one-man small craft. Military versions can even have armour and ECM. Of course a small craft...

Sure, there are plenty of unclear rules that can be interpreted differently. But to leap from usable for "passengers" "who have no other function aboard the ship" to usable by crew who absolutely have a function aboard the ship, is past interpretation. The author clearly went to some lengths...

Well, so then it RAW then? Overriding it is a house rule? Yes, of course. The house rules are still house rules, and your house rules are probably not the same as my house rules. Thank you! And that is why I quote the rule again and again: The meaning isn't contingent on one word, the word...

I have no idea how 57th century starships work, and neither do you. To play in the Traveller frame, the rules is all I have to go by. RAW says you need one engineer per 35 Dton jump drive. OK, I have no comment, I have no idea how jump drives work. RAW says, since times immemorial, that crew...

You can do whatever you wish, as I have repeatedly said: Didn't convince you that the rule is a rule? RAW is arbitrary and ultimately not important, but it is the common frame we have. Of course you can design amazing ships if you don't allocate standard space for crew or other components...

Not according to HG:

The rules seems to disagree with you: