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How are those with copies going to prove they have a copy to qualify for the free version? Particularly, as in my case, it was a gift?

I was that actual naval architect and Terry (all round decent bloke) was very comfortable with the suggestions I made. Neither of us figured out why GDW made the changes that they did.

I would welcome comments as well. From my involvement in the designs I was trying to keep the designs internally consistent with the Traveller: B5 book and ACTA 2nd edition, whilst keeping in the spirit of the show.

As one of those involved in playtesting, including looking at design rules for High Guard, I was never told anything about T5 to keep or as a reason for discounting proposals for changes, so my expectation is that if there is going to be compatibility, it will be to make changes to T5 to ensure...

Certainly when I was reviewing the HG combat rules this was one of the changes I proposed to both the standard ship and capital ship rules.

That was vey much my intention with my involvement in HG to make sure that the standard ship and capital ship rules were as consistent as possible at the interface point (ie around the 2000 ton displacment mark). This consistency of approach with rules even before my involvement was to ensure...

Thanks for the compliment!

Page 110 states that each ton of luxuries counts as one level of Steward skill, allowing (from page 58) two high or five middle passage passengers to be carried without sufficient numbers of trained stewards.

There is also the issue that those who wrote the material from which these lists have been drawn (and I am one of them) have, if they had any sense, put "copyright xxxx" on the document somewhere some of the terms here, and hence raises issues all of its own.

I've always had a soft spot for the Falkenberg's Legion books. A definite prototype for a "Mercenary" campaign (I would not be surprised if the original stories were the inspiration behind the original LBB4)

The real questions about canon are of course muzzle v breech loading, single shot v semi-automatic v automatic, smoothbore v rifled, cased rounds v bagged... (ducks for cover!) :)

I don't know - I can see that there is potentially little overlap between Pournelle and the original LBB, but once you start describing the background of 3I in Supplement 3 and Adventure 1 onwards (noble rule, previous empires, black globes/langston fields, imperial warrants, navy being a career...

So the crashing of the Terran ship Pathfinder on Kusyu in -2010 from which the jump drive was copied with human assistance (and was such an honourable event that it was kept secret for over 3000 years) had nothing to do with it?

Whilst I wouldn't like to see this as the first (or second or even third...) I've always felt that the military side of Traveller has been a little short on the doctrine of future warfare. The likes of "Grand Fleet" had a pretty good at this for the navy side of things but I've always this was...

But only if someone gives you Jump Drive first... :-)