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Any update on this? The release schedule on the Mongoose website says the Aerospace Engineer's Handbook is complete. So, could we be seeing a PDF available soon? :)

Any updates on the status of the Fillable Character Sheet?

Picked up my copy yesterday and have already skimmed through all of it and read much of it. I am very pleased with what I see so far and looking forward to reading the rest of the book. I have been gaming and buying gaming materials since the late 1970's so things like minor spelling mistakes...

I could go with either in a pinch, but like the lines of the Hover vehicles better. As you said though, maybe the fins are a result of how the need for areodynamic stabilisation for lower tech level vehicles is addressed in the area of charted space in which the game takes place. :wink:

I like the 1.5 dton size. maybe I will go 1.5 for capital ships and 1 for Ships under 2000 dtons. Makes service on a capital ship seem like cushier duty than small ships.

Ahhh... I got so wrapped up in the discrepency between the size in the two books, i missed the price difference.

Hmm... 4 times as much space would seem quite comfortable, I imagine. :) A quarter dton feels way too small to me.

In High Guard and the HG SRD, it says 2 Tons per Marine. However, all references to Barracks on ships in Traders and Gunboats says 1 Ton. interestingly, none of the Capitol Ship examples in HG seem to use Barracks at all. They all use staterooms. The 1 Ton requirement seems to make more sense...

I'll say a BIG Ditto to the three above and add a "Second" to the Honor Harrington series by Weber and Andromeda! Actually, all my picks have been mentioned already in this thread. Hmmm ... I guess I need to broaden my reading.:)

The Bugs from David Weber and Steve White's "In Death Ground" and "The Shiva Option". A race of Interstellar, warm blooded, hive mentality telepathic Spideresque creatures who categorize all other sentient life as either Enemies or Food Sources. There is no way to even reason with them. It is...

Yeah, the Silesian Confederacy is a nasty place to go if you are an unarmed merchant, but largely due to graft and corruption in the government. The pirates there are pretty good analogues of your average 18th century Carribean variety - scary - but not nearly as scary as the Reavers from...

OWW... My back hurts just with the memory of lugging those books around. :) Open ended Percentile dice, anyone? :D

Fair point! :oops:

Well, based solely on that broad description and how I perceive it, I would say you should look at Traders and Gunboats and High Guard to cover the ship and naval aspects; Scout for the exploratory, and Probably Psion for the Lovecraft side. Mercenary has a number of additional enhancements and...

BattleDress is the powered armour used in Traveller. It has many (all?) of the characteristics of Starship Troopers powered armour.