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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchants weapons.For anti-boarding actions where sand casters might be used, I would have thought that the leveraging the Smaller Weapons rule (HG2022...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchants weapons.The difference is between fitting every ship with enough defence that it can probably see off a pirate vs fitting out a few that could...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Space Combat - Did I miss something?.We can't get rid of thermal radiation, but we could direct it to a less conspicuous aspect (say into the wake of the ship which is...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchants weapons.I agree that building a dedicated pirate hunter is a double edged sword, but Q-ships have their place. I had a shipping line that used...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchant ship bridges.Apologies, I must have read those paragraph three times and every time failed to see the obvious. It is not even as if it is subtly...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchant ship bridges.You keep saying this, am I missing something? How does taking the smaller bridge option halve the cost of the bridge?
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchant ship bridges.They don't save money directly as the cost of a bridge is based on the tonnage of the ship not the bridge. So you are gaining cargo...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.It is used in non combat contexts in scenarios (e.g. Great Rift Adventures 1-5 p203 "Average (8+) Leadership check (SOC) to rally the...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.This is where I take the other route by making Leadership applicable generally rather than as a combat only skill. In combat it has a...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.I am not suggesting you cannot find creative uses for the skill. Those you mention are all entirely in scope. You may not recall I used...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.I think the strength and weakness of the Traveller skill set is that you can use many skills for the same task. Players are quite...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Miniatures.Yes there would need to be torso, but that is standard orbit for the sprues. Once they are wearing armour then the difference between...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Ship's Brain Interface sizing and use.Steward is also one of the skills that is easy to substitute outside its ship setting with other skills and good SOC. Maybe "The Night...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Merchants weapons.Opening fire would be unequivocally hostile and the time interval between the two would be negligible, I doubt it would provide any more...
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Sswordtart replied to the thread Miniatures.Second this especially. There are people that split packs and you can buy the single sprues at close to the same cost as the cost per...