Ask MongooseMatt ANYTHING!!!

[Terry Mixon]

Okay, not really anything, but when we post questions about the rules or potential typos in the feedback area, we often don't receive a response, so I'm creating this thread in the hopes of getting some response to questions we have, even if it is "we're looking at that" or some such.

I'll kick this off with a question I posted a few days ago. The emergency low berths in High Guard 2022 Update are listed at MC1 a pop. Seems real pricy since Mongoose 1e and all the previous versions of Traveller we checked had it being KCr100. In Mongoose 1e, it was listed as MCr.1 and we suspect a typo. Can we get some clartity on that so we can update the starship build sheet to reflect what we suspect if we're right? Thanks.

Also, allow me to suggest that adding KCr, BCr (or GCr to please @Geir), and TCr to your repertoire would be really helpful and would minimize the complaints about not having comma separation in your big numbers, too.

And sorry for all the wild AMA questions you're about to get @MongooseMatt.

 

[Condottiere]

The Chinese supposedly are afraid the Malacca Straits would be blockaded, the Americans the Straits of Hormuz, and the Russians that the Ukrainians would be let off the leash, and are currently instituting petrol rationing, though, North America looks pretty much self sustaining.

 

[ottarrus]

The Chinese supposedly are afraid the Malacca Straits would be blockaded, the Americans the Straits of Hormuz, and the Russians that the Ukrainians would be let off the leash, and are currently instituting petrol rationing, though, North America looks pretty much self sustaining.

Until someone's pet terrorists eff' up Barrow AK.
EVERYBODY'S oil supply is linked to between one and five discreet, easily destroyed targets. The loss of one of these facilities could send a nation's economy into a recession every bit as ugly as 2008. And spread that damage over 5 or 8 of those facilities worldwide and you could see another Great Depression.
This vulnerability is what modern analysts call 'node warfare' [and idea that MJD has run with in his OTU writings on warfare]. Find the vulnerable point, the fulcrum upon which the enemy society depends, and eliminate it. And there are several very nasty methodologies to do so, everything from terrorist attacks to biowarfare to nukes. It just depends on how open you want the strike to be.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Until someone's pet terrorists eff' up Barrow AK.
EVERYBODY'S oil supply is linked to between one and five discreet, easily destroyed targets. The loss of one of these facilities could send a nation's economy into a recession every bit as ugly as 2008. And spread that damage over 5 or 8 of those facilities worldwide and you could see another Great Depression.
This vulnerability is what modern analysts call 'node warfare' [and idea that MJD has run with in his OTU writings on warfare]. Find the vulnerable point, the fulcrum upon which the enemy society depends, and eliminate it. And there are several very nasty methodologies to do so, everything from terrorist attacks to biowarfare to nukes. It just depends on how open you want the strike to be.

Good point.

 

[Condottiere]

I rather suspect we're more vulnerable to a massive hacking of all computer systems, backed by dis/misinformation, that turns off large swathes of our infrastructure(s).

 

[MasterGwydion]

I rather suspect we're more vulnerable to a massive hacking of all computer systems, backed by dis/misinformation, that turns off large swathes of our infrastructure(s).

Also a good point

 

[MongooseMatt]

@MongooseMatt I know you hate giving definitive answers, but please answer these. What is Traveller? Is it a setting or a ruleset? If it is a ruleset then why do the settings other than Charted Space not use the Traveller CRB? If it is a setting, then Traveller is no longer a setting-agnostic game system. Which of these is Mongoose using going forward?

Traveller is a ruleset, albeit one that is very close to Charted Space.

Dark Conspiracy and Pioneer are not simple universes but separate games - basically, they have enough differences that they benefit from better separation.

 

[MongooseMatt]

@MongooseMatt

That said, are Invasion 2 and Core Expeditions expected on time for their estimated release dates?

At this time, yes.

 

[MongooseMatt]

Matt has said that Mongoose expects to get the Twilight 2000 license after Free League's contract is done. And I'm not 100% sure that Traveller is the right system for that setting....

Not quite - if Free League decides they no longer wish to pursue Twilight, we would obviously look at taking it over - but at this time, we have absolutely no plans to do so.

 

[MongooseMatt]

I just hope I am still around for 2027...

So do we

 

[Condottiere]

I bought Aerospace Engineer, hoping to find something useful, compatible with the Third Imperium setting.

 

[Vormaerin]

I bought Aerospace Engineer, hoping to find something useful, compatible with the Third Imperium setting.

It has a lot of additional detail on reaction drives if you find that sort of thing interesting, which I do. And the sensor rules are just plain better than those in High Guard.

In terms of 2300 stuff that is directly useful in Charted Space, Tools for Frontier Living is a better purchase, but AEH has some pretty neat things for changing how you campaign's ships work that I consider improvements.