Recent content by enpeze2

There is already such a space combat game, Red Alert, from grandmaster Richard Borg produced by PSC in Britain. Not a bad game but somewhat strange in my opinion and only a tactical scope, like the other C&C games, not a strategic one like which would be need for the 5th frontier war.

isnt this the shield armor rule from one of the Runequest editions?

yep. compass games is the correct way but its only a publisher. You have to get a game designer first. There are great cosim designers out there who know how to get combat and movement systems for scifi games right. If these are interested in a traveller game, I dont know. The hottest tip for...

Well, I would not say that future planning is the whole point of the game, but rather one of its rule glitches. Unfortunately GDW used those cumbersome preplanning rules to portray the comms lag typical for the traveller universe. This contributed decisively to limited popularity of the game in...

Thats super to hear. Such a wargame featuring the 5th frontier war could be used as a background game for the campaign. Playing it parallel to the rpg campaign and implementing the results could lead to very interesting roleplay situations. Unfortunately the current game is a little bit...

now that the 5th frontier war is coming again, how about a revival of the board game? A improved and streamlined second editon would be great.

Well, when the massive maritime trade of our earth now is not the reasonable model for third imperium, then the whole imperium has not much income and does not work as described. We know there are only a few directly ruled fiefs and mostly the imperium rules the "space between the worlds" which...

I agree that the rules are showing small trader for convenience. Thats fully ok and I am not ranting because of this because I am always for concentrating to the essential in rpgs. Nonetheless there are many ship plans out there, small, medium, large. But somehow no XL freighters. Two ore three...

in the imperium there should be tens of thousands of XL and XXL transport ships to reflect the immense trade volume of 5000+ worlds. Everything else is unrealistic. I agree with some of the commenters, that it is a mistake not to have floor plans for one or two of these XL and XXL freighters...

of course official traveller cardboard miniatures would be phantastic. But I guess bringing out a KS with 3D files is more gain for Mongoose...hm...maybe not, I dont know. I also own alot of cardboard minis. Most of them are from the excellent artist Okumart from drivethrough. Maybe this great...

IMO the thing is that expensive minis are not that attractive anymore, and Vanguard had these which explains more or less why the project failed. Too few people are playing traveller to justify real miniatures. Traveller has by far not the massive following of CMON or Bones. So its necessary to...

That and/or 3D STL files for Traveller resin minis. A lot of people do nowadays have access to 3D printers and a kickstarter offering such files would be awsome.

Interestingly although we know alot about the traveller universe (many of it important, other things not that essential) we dont know how the Zhodani differs from the Imperium in their way of organizing space life. I think the best would be to see the class A spaceport of large important worlds...

a warhammer 40k spinoff.

the problem is that 1 billion tons is a number which represents a size, almost noone except maybe an real life engineer can visualize. I would love to see size data in meters of starships and space stations in traveller sourcebooks. Up to this its not possible to know how large, wide and high a...