Recent content by collins355

Have gamed out the Vargr incursion into Corridor during the Rebellion era using T4/Imperial Squadrons+Pocket Empires (i.e. tweaked Fifth Frontier War boardgame rules with added crunch). It is a lot more doable than I imagine the Aslan incursions to be. Of course, the key point is that Imperial...

Yes, many people before you have pointed this out, over many years. The original plot in Rebellion Sourcebook put a lot of stock in the fact that the Imperium in 1117- was wracked by civil war. The Aslan supposedly took advantage of that disruption and distraction. Norris was supposedly...

Much more important, IMHO, that your highly expensive Battle Dress has a built-in point defence system (against drones, loitering munitions, etc) like this chap from T4 Emperor's Arsenal:

I'm sure at least one illustrator in canon way back when had the wedge shaped protrusion unclippable so it could be folded upwards. Not sure if that would solve the problem of bending your neck when prone but it wasn't a bad idea.

Indeed, we too play CD (now with the latest version Test of Battle or CD4, which I highly recommend). The great innovation of original CD over original Striker was that CD did away with Striker's order system (which was essentially unplayable in any reasonable period of time - "Oh, I have to...

Having resurrected Striker with my gaming group a few weeks back for a tabletop battle, I'm not sure I can recommend it. Very much a product of its time. Quite a few WTF moments in rules such as orders or morale checks. Plus the roll 2D6 per person shooting takes away all the advantages of a...

You can do either with the 1-16 merc battalion at your discretion - the TL combat modifiers are such that they're murder on the poor Swordies (also another reason why MJD's TL12 Imperial Army is utterly crazy BTW). Playing as the Imperial you have lots of options - my bias is for an "active...

As has already been said by Tforbes, the Mercenary box set is not Mongoose's finest hour. The system is clunky and poorly constructed. War by spreadsheet just isn't very interesting for most people, even at the best of times. One option would be to get hold of the MGT first edition Mercenary...

Apologies. I'm glad we're in agreement that there is an Imperial Army deployed in peacetime in the Marches around Regina. Actually they can't - but would love to play you at FFW to demonstrate.

That's a little misleading, if you don't know the game. The Imperial Army *is* on the board at the start of the game/war. It just isn't a very large force compared to what appears later in the game (after 10 weeks delay) as reinforcements from elsewhere. Although we can't ask the designers...

Yes indeed. Although Rob said to me it was re-specced by DGP after he had submitted the illustrations. It is a TL14 design in all its features and components, consistent with the MegaTrav design rules in "Referees Handbook", so someone on staff clearly re-did it as TL14 after Rob was done with...

Just to be clear - the Trepida in MegaTrav where it originated was a TL14 design, as was the companion Astrin APC. (see 101 Vehicles, Imperial Encyclopedia, Rebellion Sourcebook, etc). It was a TL14 design in TNE as well (see Regency Combat Vehicle Guide, Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide...

I've posted this before in earlier topics where we've been discussing the boardgame, but there is a VTT version of it available on Vassal (https://vassalengine.org/library/projects/Fifth_Frontier_War).

Just to show that one swallow does not make a summer... ...we played numerous military-oriented Traveller RPG games and campaigns in our group of teens in the early 1980s. We played the whole of Adventure 7: Broadsword. We ran a few of the Book 4 tickets - I especially remember the Porozlo...

Sadly, Traveller wiki is an ‘unreliable’ narrator. Too much fandom for me. I like using this chap’s site for working out where to find canon references… https://phillwebb.id.au/cgi-bin/phill/trav/canon.pl?a=sy&sc=spinward_marches&sb=n&sy=1537