Recent content by collins355

Lords of Thunder coming for you!

FWIW, this was the rule from TNE/Battle Rider:

Yes, true enough as far as we currently understand cold fusion if it worked, which it doesn't. I do wonder though, about the difference between the 50-60 degrees above ambient the heat exchangers for the waste heat of a cold fusion powerplant would probably require and the kinds of things...

Not much if it is Cold Fusion, which is what we are told Fusion+ is.

The whole Prototype, TLs before TLs thing, was IMHO a Bad Idea (TM) and should be abandoned before further confusion and chaos results.

Noting, of course, the TLs listed in this graphic are GURPS TL, which do not/not map directly to Mongoose Traveller TLs. (just in case incautious readers come across this in future)

Yes, the problem (or, a problem) is we often unconsciously slip into treating Traveller thruster plates as if they are rockets (and hence treating them as great torches spewing out reaction mass). But Traveller thruster plates are explicitly not that at all.

The absence of clear TL tables for most of the alien races in Traveller has long been a bugbear for me. There has been some good forensic research on this thread. I add this chart from the often overlooked MT/Referees Companion. It doesn't really help much, but it is one of the few examples of...

Lords of Thunder/MTJ4 is my bible - and also (arguably) one of the greatest adventure settings ever published in Traveller canon.

By way of contrast, as a military-oriented Traveller gamer I have zero interest in Hiver or Virushi miniatures, but plenty of interest in K'kree. (just in case any miniature manufacturer/3d designer ever reads this thread)

https://www.travellerrpg.com/threads/hypothetical-what-would-you-ask-dave-nilsen.7434/ As a start.

K'kree rival the Hivers for unavailability or easy replication. Seems a long time since the Martian Metals 15mm K'kree packets were on FLGS shelves.

19 years on, and Andrew Boulton still did the coolest videos for Traveller.

In fact, in my experience playing Traveller fleet combat, you actually want to reverse the traditional Wet Navy crossing the T - because most Traveller battlewagons rely on spinal mounts. You want to be the fleet with your noses facing the enemy, while they have their broadsides facing you...

You can play Squadron Strike Traveller to see how 3d Traveller space combat might turn out (https://www.adastragames.com/squadron-strike)