Recent content by Bardicheart

Tea Five? I could easily see something like the mercenary cruiser with its spherical hull and engine "struts" doubling as some sort of landing gear but even there I would think it would need some sort of reinforced struts, pads, etc. to take the weight. Not to mention some ability to level...

I've been tinkering with 3d modelling some ships again (and trying to get back to finishing the Voshtar) and in the process I've realized a couple things. Airlocks - The rules state you get a certain number of airlocks free based on the ships tonnage. Specifically 1 standard airlock per 100 dT...

Going to try to respond to most points in one post. Which was my thinking. Its called the Diplomatic Deck and not the "Decadent French Aristocracy Deck" for a reason. I think the mention of the word noble has conjured up a lot of wrong ideas. There are NO servants on this ship, there is room...

The launch here is one of two carried by the craft (the other docks under the bow and is used by the marines), this one was primarily for the noble owner, Count Karl Rheinhardt and his staff. Going back to the back story, the Count was himself an engineer and designed the Voshtar. Not only did...

Shipping and what gets shipped in Traveller is something that deserves (and has had) its own debate. I've always had a few questions, to put it mildly, about how much in the way of common goods and so forth gets shipped around. It seems like in those cases it would be cheaper to produce them...

Quick update on the Voshtar. Mostly happy with the Diplomatic Deck plans at this point, though I'm still pondering maybe tinkering with both the number and placement of the escape pods. But, here's a graphic and some notes in the meantime. Bow < > Aft (grid is standard 1.5m x 1.5m, assume...

I'm not comparing the HG 2e Atlantic to a player designed ship, I'm comparing it to its original self as published in CT 09 Fighting ships p32. Bold type added for clarity. The original had plenty of laser turrets for point defense against fighters and missiles, the new version trades the 210...

Another question. Reading through the starbase section of Hg 2e I was looking at the mineral refineries. Specifically a TL 10 refinery produces ore at the rate of 1 ton per ton of refinery and needs 1 crew per 20 dT of refinery. So far so good, that part is clear. However in the next section...

@Dilbert Unfortunately the Atlantic class heavy cruiser has very little in the way of PD. It has 4 Type II PD batteries which after reading over the rules again from both Core and HG, I doubt it would eat those missile salvos. When I ran the numbers (and I might not have done it correctly, so...

Couple of quick thoughts on the fleet topic. First, I'm not saying what you propose is impossible, but lets say we have two Imperial CruRons facing off as part of the rebellion after the assassination of Strephon, and that mainly because I don't know of any official Zhodani heavy cruiser...

I really should write up a new thread post on fleets and fleet doctrines and branch that discussion off. Will get too that soonish. @AnotherDilbert Regarding the Midu's, I guess what I was thinking was assume a CruRon of 4 heavy cruisers (75kdT each) so they *should* have about 75 sensor ops...

Heh, just wanted to +1 Condottiere's post and an additional +10 for the graphics. :wink:

Well first, obviously the ship has not been "destroyed" or else there wouldn't be anything for the surviving crew to be on. Disabled might have been a better word. I wouldn't say the ship isn't repairable either, its just beyond the point of battle repairs. That aside, if it were a big battle...

If I could ever get organized enough to finish some of these projects... :wink: Meanwhile all this kinda of suggest another thread topic. Might start that, its worth a good discussion of its own.

Unless said mist are clouds on the side of a mountain, in which case you could say the sky literally is the limit. :wink: .oO(Geez that sounded Zen :lol: )