Recent content by cliffbates65

Does anyone have any ship/equipt designs they like to share dealing with the Old Earth Union period? I am old CT player who returning to the game.. but am very interested in the early pre 3rd Imperium universe. I loved Interstellar Wars by SJG, but am not a fan of the GRUPS system. Also does...

The genius of Traveller was the ballance it had with realism that most space games didn't. I see no difference that tachyon or Ions weapons add. If its choice then just call PAs Ion weapons and Meson, Tachyon but follow the rules PA and Meson. When you turn to molecular disentergration, there...

I missed something in the MGT rules, what happened to missle bays? Ok racks add on make sense but missle turrets and bays do as well. Yes this thread is about torpedo bays...... but unless you swapped the one for the other. I was just spending some time today looking at the way the new MGT HG...

But in CT High Guard they Meson weapons are also low level Bay Wapons. I think Mr Miller was saying that meason turrets or barbetts [mspld] aren't Cannon. Also low leveled tachyon weapon (or Ion) just not variations of the Partical Accelerator??? Perhaps the name will differ by how a given...

But in T5 rail guns exist for lower tech level situations. And the exclusion of them might have been culural more than anything else. Sandcasters also at one level looks like a gauss rail launcher of a sought. Look at Orbital and its dicussion of space weapons at TL8-9. One could argue that...

I am joining this discussion late but why are Ion weapons not treated as a Particle Accelerator (cause that what they in fact are) with increased EMP effect?

The difference between a torpedo and a missile is both size, speed and the need to hit at a longer distance with more punch. So although there would be a difference between standard/HEandHEAP sizes carried by a missile vs a torpedo so the 4 for standard missile and 6 for a standard torpedo makes...

Several places in the editions of High Guard and TCS from Mongoose (purchaced by DriveThruRPG lately by me) I have seen mention of mines and minesweepers. But in both High Guard and TCS not really much about them is given. I think this has been one of the most under-used tool in HG/TCS the...

I don't see why. I mean if mass driver/Gauss weapons become man portable rifles and assult rifles by tl 12, that mean by they are heavy ordnance launcher from the ground and space by TL 8 available, but definitely by tl-9 as main and secondary weapons. By tl-11 larger gauss style item would be...

What happened to repulsers bay weapons from CT High Guard rules? I know tractor beams come at TL 16 but repulsers are just Gdrive devises used to push things. The large one are on ground level star ports starting at Tl=12 usually to get large cargo modules and ships up to orbit, without using...