Recent content by Chumbly

A vision of a mongoose doing his best sheep-dog impression and having the time of his life "herding" the office ducks....comes to mind :D

I really like these TAS-style reports... You might want to continue these after the 5 Frontier War is released, to provide ongoing flavor to the campaign.(you don't have to report game-altering events.(unless you really want to), but flavoring news items, like missing ships from...

Postal Santa Just dropped my hardcopy box of the Sector Construction Guide off:)

Just wondering if the Mongoose will soon board the State Coach so he can travel where he will address the plebians (probably a bunch of low berthers each and every one..<sniff>...<wrinkle nose>)_... on the State of the Mongoose?

Also, a factor is how strong the internal structures of the ship are if the ship is a dispersed hull, if the ship was designed only operate in zero or weak gravity, the ship support structures might fail under gravity especially under high gravity worlds due to a strong unexpected force pulling...

I actually have the same thing in the Download links, though my order for Third Imperium does show up in the orders list, just helping debugging by corroborating that more than one has this problem Chumbly BTW I Love the new website, will the forum software get an update too?

Postal Folks(US) just dropped Mysteries of Arcturus Station on my doorstep. Always good to see something get delivered these days Chumbly

I am going to give my totally unofficial take.... :lol: In the Second Year of the Great Covid Pandemic, the history books stated that there was a Country Called New Zealand and its Prime Minister cut the country off from the rest of the World for the second time... after this, the records get...

Well, Glorious Empire and Enemy of My Enemy both showed up in the same box this afternoon in Arizona Chumbly

Well, I got both Aliens 2 and Skandsdervik in the mail today in Arizona, in separate boxes. Well packed, the books were probably in biggest danger sitting out on my front porch in 115+ F heat and by me using a steak knife to cut open the packaging :lol: ... So things are moving, let's hope the...

A Mercenary Ticket is available for a small snatch and grab raid, one of the regimes(probably under strong Solomani Party influence) in the North America region on the Balkanized world of Terra is holding needed information assets hostage in a secure custom's facility preventing the...

Interesting article on steering big ships... There is a steering simulator game embedded in the article that lets you take your turn at taking a large container ship through the canal. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/steering-worlds-biggest-ships-suez-canal-cmd/index.html Actually, might be...

So somebody's roll was "2"

So, was the Ship's navigator unskilled in Navigator or Helmsman unskilled in Seafarer, and took -3 DM on the Safely Guide the Ship Through The Canal Skill Check, or did one of them roll snake eyes....? Chumbly

I think Egypt needs to put a sign at each end of the canal... "Warning: The pointy end of the ship needs to be pointed at the water in the center path of the Canal, if you point the pointy end at either side where there is dirt(in either the direction of the Nile or Isreal) You will NOT be...