Recent content by collins355

I have a polite request of MongooseMatt. If these new High Guard and CSC books are just going to be minor updates incorporating known errata and clarifications, can Mongoose please release simultaneously a free pdf download containing just those fixes (a bit like the FAQ of a couple of years...

No worries. But can you clarify what you see as "minor fixes". For example, I've suggested re-doing the ranges given for weapons to something more realistic. Is this, in your view, a "minor fix" or something that is a step too far? If it is the latter, then I won't waste your and my time...

We'll have to agree to disagree I'm sure, but it is perfectly useable if you replace the <--> with the multiplication sign. It designs ships, craft and weapons in a consistent and replicable fashion. Using a spreadsheet set up with it works exactly as well as using the spreadsheet most of us...

You've posted what was the pre-errata formulas for T4 FF&S. They quickly acknowledged that through a publisher error all the formulas in the book were printed with <--> instead of the correct multiplication sign. If you mentally replace each instance of "<-->" with "x" then all is well.

This, so much this! I'm not sure if I have as much confidence that enlisting Geir is the right answer to this problem, but I completely agree that the current state of starship versus planetary craft/weapon interaction is borked.

The ranges of the artillery weapons could do with a good review and rationalisation. I don't know if that is the type of thing you'd class as a minor fix (and you'd need actual subject matter expertise brought to bear on the matter - i.e. what actually is a reasonable firing range to put down...

Sorry if I was unclear - I like the idea of example ships interspersed in the design system to illustrate points. But currently fully half of High Guard is ships, it runs to dozens and dozens of pages of ships all clumped together at the back of the book.

A lot of what we know about how meson communications were intended to work in Traveller comes from CT/Striker, where we are told:

My suggestion would be to go back to the original style and have MGT High Guard not have any ship designs in it (maybe a few examples to illustrate design techniques linked to parts of the text). Have High Guard be a ship designers book, with space combat rules. Have both of these elements be...

The Fleet Combat rules are .... not great. Nor do they give particularly consistent results to the normal High Guard combat rules. I'd suggest removing them entirely, and leaving it alone until Mongoose is ready to prepare proper fleet/squadron-level combat rules for space battles.

Collectable card games (M:TG) killed GDW along with a lot of the rest of the industry. It was an extinction-level event.

That would seem to be the only solution - but you lose all the presumed advantages of meson/neutrino comms, such as un-interceptability, un-jammability, etc. And you gain all the disadvantges of EM comms.

Oooh, exciting! T4 FF&S has some smaller meson communicators....

Good sleuthing - and as you can see from the table in MegaTrav Ref's Manual, even at TL20 the smallest meson communicator still comes in at 100kg! Yet, just to prove that consistency has never been a strong feature of Traveller publications, the MegaTrav Ref's Companion on page 28 has "Hand...

Yes, its a treasure trove of little gems - like this chart of when TLs were reached in the OTU.