Fifth Frontier War: How's your war going?
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nats
Cosmic Mongoose
I am not keen on the FFW, but that doesnt mean I wont be interested to see how it ends, especially because I am not knowledgable of the earlier literature. Any development of Traveller is a good thing overall.
Maybe Mongoose could release a summary of what has happened in the FFW in a bulletin every month or two? That would be interesting to show how the war is progressing and what has occurred when and where. The problem with the large books is they are very slow to make and very spread out - not very suitable for reflecting an episodal adventure like the FFW. One could almost see a FFW Journal working well, where updates on the war are issued periodically - that could help referees a lot with their ongoing games. I think that would be very interesting to read by people just interested in watching how the war plays out.
I looked at the war map in the FFW book preview on Drivethru and didnt think it was very good, just a mass of arrows with dates. I've seen such war maps done much better where you see a progression of the war over time with enemy troop movements shown in a progressive sequence of maps over a timeline. This would have been much more readable than having all the movements shown on one map.
Maybe Mongoose could release a summary of what has happened in the FFW in a bulletin every month or two? That would be interesting to show how the war is progressing and what has occurred when and where. The problem with the large books is they are very slow to make and very spread out - not very suitable for reflecting an episodal adventure like the FFW. One could almost see a FFW Journal working well, where updates on the war are issued periodically - that could help referees a lot with their ongoing games. I think that would be very interesting to read by people just interested in watching how the war plays out.
collins355
Emperor Mongoose
If you're a cheapskate and don't want to buy CT/Spinward Marches Campaign, you can read through the TNS messages under the Classic Traveller heading here (https://calormen.com/tns/) for 1107 thru 1110 and get a gist.
The text actually explains quite well where the thrusts were, why, and what the result were.
It's much more than just the maps.
Nah, he’s right: it’s a confused mass of arrows, lines, poorly-explained iconography and it tries to cover two years of fleet movements in places.
Grognardia
Emperor Mongoose
Ah yes. The Fifth Frontier War: the latest instalment in a five-century tradition of the Imperium and the Zhodani Consulate spending flipping great wads of cash to move three border systems two parsecs in one direction, declare victory, and start planning the next one.
Starqueen
Mongoose
I do actually agree with this, it could be quite helpful. It doesn't need to be *too* granular. Some bullet points could be useful too, like "This battle may have turned out differently if: X, Y &/or Z. There is some information like this in the books I've read so far, but it would be nice to see it condensed into something more immediately readable without having to jump about searching as much.
The CT Spinward Marches book referenced previously in-thread has 36 column-inches of explanatory text on pages 9, 10, 11 that does a reasonably extensive job of telling you the main thrusts, goals, movements, and results of various theaters. I find it pretty decent. CERTAINLY enough for my own campaign 'backdrop' of places the players don't want accidentally be, when, & why.
The maps here are pretty bad but a) confined to b&w, and worse, b) tiny (4x per page) they didn't have a lot of options.
See Scotland and England.
