Recent content by phavoc

Here is where I think the rule goes off the rails: HG'22, p50: BARRACKS Ships designed to carry large numbers of troops tend to use barracks instead of staterooms. A barracks may only be used to carry soldiers, basic passengers or other personnel who will put up with cramped conditions. This...

Size of them would be variable, depending upon need and people carried. And also how they work (rack-em and stack-em and turn the lights off while they wait, or provide them actual seats and food/water/fresher facilities while they are awake the whole time). As they are escape craft making...

The lifeboat discussion (current and historical ones) usually devolves into two broad camps - the ones who say its' pointless and the ones who say it isn't. The game has a perverse idea that spaceships only travel in jump space and emerge 100D from the single world in a star system that has THE...

Escape pods have always been the space-equivalent of lifeboats. We know that terrestrial lifeboats are required as ships can sink and floating for long periods is not necessarily advised. In sci-fi fiction we've seen lifepods/escape pods in many movies and tv series. They've become a relative...

This is from the Battleship TX, circa 1940. I've visited the ship and in parts of it they had wire-like baskets hanging 5 tall from the ceiling. They also still had the attachment points for the actual hammocks they used to put up for people to sleep in. I don't think it's ever been an issue...

I believe pointing these things out is how things get corrected in the first place. I'm not sure why you feel the need to discourage others from posting their opinions. Disagreement is one thing, actively trying to dissuade someone from offering an opinion is another. Unless and until a...

"Either accept the rules as written or accept older versions are still usable and MgT is flawed. Or just house rule." All reasonable options. However, the point of purchasing rules from a publisher is so you don't have to create your own house rules for things. Same goes for settings and...

Thats not optimal, but helpful for longer voyages. The RPM would still be a problem, but possibly treatable with drugs. I dont know enough about the biology or pharmacology to know if you could treat it on a semi-permanent basis without causing other problems. And im sure there would be those...

I'm trying to recall what the gravity was supposed to be inside the main module. According to what I can find, the portion of the ship with the carousel is about 12m in diameter, and was supposed to rotate at 5 RPM - which is way too fast for normal comfort. I suppose if the astronauts were on...

I don't have HG'22 revision, but this post by AnotherDilbert caught my attention: HG'22, p92: MARINES AND SHIP’S TROOPS The terms marines and ship’s troops are sometimes used interchangeably. While the two share some of the same duties, there are significant differences in scope. Ship’s troops...

I'd have to disagree with the living on your ship even in port. That's not how it works today. Yes, when away from your base crew live on the ship - even in liberty ports. But when back at their home port they have regular barracks. Same went for us in the Army. When we deployed to the field...

Umm, not really. "Life support" is a mix of things - its the air scrubbers to make air breathable again, remove humidity, smells, et. al. It's a water and waste processing system that circulates your liquids throughout the ship. It's basically an amorphous concept. As the book tells us, life...

Ice Ice baby...

In generic terms you are absolutely correct. But if you like that sort of specificity or description wise, it isn't.

Always felt that life support should be separated from cabin space. The rules are riddled with inconsistencies. Not sure if they ever fixed the slave barracks/container issue, that had like double the life support capacity - comfort I get, but not oxygen. I can't see making Traveller military...