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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    Oh right, so it is fanmade. I do recall the long debate we had on the TML regarding that vessel on the cover of SMC. Some argued it was...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    Which book gives this detail, please? Four platoons would be a non-standard size for an Imperial Marine company. Venter is the name of...
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    collins355 replied to the thread 5th frontier war board game revival?.
    You could do away with the percentage loss system, but you really need a combat system that allows SDBs and planetary defence forces to...
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    collins355 reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread 5th frontier war board game revival? with Like Like.
    The future planning is the whole point of the game, it is to model the comms lag in the setting. Fleet Admirals do not have a god level...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Imperial Army.
    Indeed he has been quoted saying the board games don’t predict the course of the war in canon. I’m not sure I’ve seen him talking about...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Imperial Army.
    Yes, although the game setup rules have the prewar Imperial Army deployment being only the 4 TL15 brigades and the 4 TL14/15 regiments...
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    collins355 reacted to WHULorigan's post in the thread Imperial Army with Like Like.
    So on average that would be approximately (give or take) 6 Corps, or a full Field Army Proper with a 4-Star Commander.
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    collins355 replied to the thread Imperial Army.
    There definitely are large assault carriers in canon. In both FFW and Invasion Earth board games you see AssaultRons that can carry 600...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    Yes, this was all an invention of the late Doug Berry (and was round criticised on TML at the time) for the GURPS Alternative Traveller...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    Actually MegaTrav states that the Trepida was only introduced in 1109 and the Astrin three years later (see 101 Vehicles page 17). So...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    As others have noted, Imperial (Star?) Marines have had an implied combined arms nature since CT Book 2 and LBB4 where vehicle skills...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    Canon source for any of this, please? (I acknowledge that Mongoose has not followed canon with the Trepida and Astrin tonnage)
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    In the FFW boardgame as an Impie player I tend to leave them behind to occupy Zhodani worlds that have minimal/no local defence force...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    In FFW Imperial Marines automatically count as jump (or drop if you prefer) troops who can assault from orbit via drop capsules -...
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    collins355 replied to the thread Small Craft and Marines.
    Could be - a standard Imperial player tactic in FFW boardgame is to send a raiding fleet off into the Neutral Zone and then (hopefully)...
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