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    phavoc replied to the thread UWP Tech Level?.
    I started way back with the original LBB's. At the same time I was playing basic D&D (and the monthly wargames from Strategy and...
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    phavoc replied to the thread UWP Tech Level?.
    You realize you are talking about Traveller, right? :)
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Navy Question.
    If you don't need to set aside space for large jump fuel tanks you can use that tonnage for more offensive and defensive armaments...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    In the SW universe the Millenium Falcon family did push cargo pods with their mandibles, and in that case it was simply an elongated...
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    phavoc replied to the thread UWP Tech Level?.
    I think this is just another one of those instances where the full thought process of what this can do to the game setting isn't fully...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Imperial Navy Question.
    Attrition attacks where you lose actual people are not all that popular with the people who get attrited.. :) I think you'll find...
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    phavoc replied to the thread UWP Tech Level?.
    I have always treated it as a generalized concept. If a world is TL-12 (the Imperial average) one can expect that in the major areas...
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    phavoc reacted to MasterGwydion's post in the thread UWP Tech Level? with Like Like.
    That is Traveller's biggest flaw. Everything is generated in isolation. Look at almost every book that has ever been put out. Almost...
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    phavoc reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread UWP Tech Level? with Like Like.
    Worlds are generated in isolation. This is the biggest flaw in the UPP process, especially the government law and TL parameters. Why...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Starship operations reality vs expectations.
    which version of the CRB is this from?
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    phavoc replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    Yeah, that would work. You couldn't really do any sort of maneuvering (and one would have to wonder just where the hell you'd attach a...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Starship operations reality vs expectations.
    This COULD be very true - except that nowhere in the books do we see anything mentioned about people aging at different rates outside of...
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    phavoc reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread Starship operations reality vs expectations with Like Like.
    The time variable only appears to matter to the ship,. A ship jumps from point A to point B. We are told many times that jump is...
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    phavoc replied to the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead?.
    Concepts like towing cables and jump nets are terrible in a space environment. I dunno if any of you guys have ever tried to tow a car...
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    phavoc reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Drop Tanks... Back From the Dead? with Like Like.
    Not really. At least, not if Future Man is anything like modern man. It's pretty consistently established that businesses won't pay...
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