Future Traveller - Testing the Waters

[IanBruntlett]

Yes, but with the cost of metal/plastic minis - and having to paint them - I'd settle for cardboard ones *I have plenty of stands*

I would love some PDFs for Paper Minis for Traveller, and have mooted the idea before, perhaps getting Precis Intermedia Games to do them in their Disposable Heroes line.

I'd buy them. Ships and sophonts

 

[AndrewW]

Has this been requested? Better Deckplans. I'd recommend graphics done as vector graphics files. I use PDFs a lot when I GM RPGs, usually with MapTools and zooming in on the current deck plans it looks very messy.

Most of the newer deckplans are being done in vector format. Not sure if vector is being used in the PDF's though. Now if MapTools supported vector directly.

 

[Greylond]

Has this been requested? Better Deckplans. I'd recommend graphics done as vector graphics files. I use PDFs a lot when I GM RPGs, usually with MapTools and zooming in on the current deck plans it looks very messy.

Most of the newer deckplans are being done in vector format. Not sure if vector is being used in the PDF's though. Now if MapTools supported vector directly.

Yea, rly. I find I have to zoom to the scale I need for the map in MapTool, and then import it as an image. The problem with a lot of the current deckplans is that when you do that it doesn't look all that good.

 

[Infojunky]

SECOND EDITIONS

Yes, Please!...

Note, if you wanted to split the books up that might nice, i.e. put all of character creation and personal combat in one book and Starship's in another, Etc.. ect.. Maybe with the books in digest format (and Tablet friendly in PDF form, by that extension)

On High Guard and Mercenary, lots of ideas in those books that are badly laid out, and would be greatly improved with some TLC...

MINIATURES - A WAR IN A BOX
This one could be much closer to fruition. We have been debating Traveller miniatures for a while now but have been looking for a way to do them. The current thinking is to have a number of 'closed' releases - that is, a box set (around $50) containing rules and two starter armies, and 6-12 blister/clamshell expansions. No more. These releases will basically revolve around a single war/series of battles in Traveller (we were thinking a 2300AD game, a clash against Kaefers, to begin with). A little later, we'll release another war (as box set a 6-12 clamshells) - all rules properly compatible, of course.

Yes, Please Can my 1st box be Hivers and Ithklur vs K'Kree in 15mm PLEASE!

Remember 15mm is the Traditional scale for Traveller Miniatures..... (As 20mm is for Twilight2000 as such also for 2300AD as it is an extension of that timeline...)

 

[torus]

Miniatures: I'd like to see mercs, Imperials and Solomani. Also I'd much prefer 1/72 scale (~24 mm), since that fits with model kits from other manufacturers (eg for tanks and other vehicles), which can be modded to make them sci-fi. My ideal would probably be a box of 1/72 plastic troops.

 

[Infojunky]

Miniatures: I'd like to see mercs, Imperials and Solomani. Also I'd much prefer 1/72 scale (~24 mm)

Ok, you 20mm figures then. In that 20mm stated scale is 1/72nd scale. The problem with 20mm is there is very little selection in SF topics in both the miniatures and 1/72nd scale models...

 

[crazy_cat]

For minis I'd prefer 28mm - and minis for the things unique to Traveller, so Kaefers, Vacc suited ships crew etc for 2300AD; and Vargr, Aslan, Zhodhani, Imperial Marines etc for OTU; and generic (armed and unarmed) human ships crew and citizens for use with any setting.

28mm works alongside many other fantasy, modern, and SF ranges (inclduing prepainted plastics and for example Wargames Factory, Mantic, and Defiance SF plastic ranges) - anything other than 28mm and I personally wouldn't be interested at all.

 

[Sigtrygg]

A Call to Arms: High Guard.

Why has this not happened yet?

 

[mpoles]

For minis I'd prefer 28mm - and minis for the things unique to Traveller, so Kaefers, Vacc suited ships crew etc for 2300AD; and Vargr, Aslan, Zhodhani, Imperial Marines etc for OTU; and generic (armed and unarmed) human ships crew and citizens for use with any setting.

28mm works alongside many other fantasy, modern, and SF ranges (inclduing prepainted plastics and for example Wargames Factory, Mantic, and Defiance SF plastic ranges) - anything other than 28mm and I personally wouldn't be interested at all.

Seconded. It's the default scale for science fiction miniatures (because of WH40K) so most of us already own some in that scale. Decades ago, 15mm was the most popular scale, but it's very difficult to paint 15mm miniatures to look good.

 

[GJD]

For minis I'd prefer 28mm - and minis for the things unique to Traveller, so Kaefers, Vacc suited ships crew etc for 2300AD; and Vargr, Aslan, Zhodhani, Imperial Marines etc for OTU; and generic (armed and unarmed) human ships crew and citizens for use with any setting.

28mm works alongside many other fantasy, modern, and SF ranges (inclduing prepainted plastics and for example Wargames Factory, Mantic, and Defiance SF plastic ranges) - anything other than 28mm and I personally wouldn't be interested at all.

Seconded. It's the default scale for science fiction miniatures (because of WH40K) so most of us already own some in that scale. Decades ago, 15mm was the most popular scale, but it's very difficult to paint 15mm miniatures to look good.

Anything other than 15mm and I wouldn't be interested. There is a growing base of 15mm scifi, and I dispute the fact that 15mm minis can't be painted to look good. 15mm is also historically the scale that previous Traveller miniatures were released in.

 

[captainquirk]

Yeah, 15mm. There are hundreds of tie-in offerings in 15mm, it is THE sci-fi scale, and has had a massive resurgence over the last few years.

 

[Golan2072]

Also, on a 1''=1.5m grid (which a 15mm mini with a 20mm base fits neatly into), this scale probably represents the weapon ranges better than 28mm.

 

[crazy_cat]

I'm not trying to win an argument here - you prefer 15mm, I prefer 28mm - that's fine.

Mongoose need to decide which, if any, scale to make Traveller minis in. If it is 28mm I'll buy them. If it isn't I wont.

 

[steelbrok]

I'd REALLY prefer my war in a box to be prepainted like the Battlefield Evo packs

 

[Infojunky]

Seconded. It's the default scale for science fiction miniatures (because of WH40K) so most of us already own some in that scale. Decades ago, 15mm was the most popular scale, but it's very difficult to paint 15mm miniatures to look good.

No 15mm is the Default scale for SF Miniatures. And 15mm figures are far easier to paint do to the reduced detail set.

40k isn't Science Fiction, it is a weird fantasy fork of WW1.

 

[Infojunky]

I'm not trying to win an argument here - you prefer 15mm, I prefer 28mm - that's fine.

Mongoose need to decide which, if any, scale to make Traveller minis in. If it is 28mm I'll buy them. If it isn't I wont.

Yes, and we hope they see reason and go with 15mm....

 

[crazy_cat]

Seconded. It's the default scale for science fiction miniatures (because of WH40K) so most of us already own some in that scale. Decades ago, 15mm was the most popular scale, but it's very difficult to paint 15mm miniatures to look good.

That quote isn't actually from me - it was mpoles.

 

[Infojunky]

Sorry....

 

[crazy_cat]

No worries. I just hope Mongoose hurry up and develop and release some Traveller minis - via Kickstarter maybe in finances are tight for new product development.

That way at least some of us will have new stuff to buy - depending on which scale they use.

 

[JP42]

I may be the only one out there who wants this, and I'm sure it'd never be economically feasible, but it would be lovely to have the Core Rules merged fully with all of the Books to produce a Traveller: Complete that has advanced character creation rules (a la High Guard, Scoundrels, Merchant Prince, etc), a really complete equipment section (incorporating the rules from cybernetics, vehicles and the equipment guide) and a fully-integrated ship design (for all sizes from small craft through capital ships) and combat rules.

It would weigh in at around 600 pages, and have to cost about $200 to be viable, but lord knows I would buy the living daylights out of it.

ETA: and I would also need for myself to be included in the copy edit and rules testing. I love that Mongoose has done so much cool stuff with Traveller, but the typographical errors combined with rules inconsistencies and incompletenesses are grating. I'd also like to see them include a fixed version of the original vehicle design rules rather than the ultra-abstracted version that came out in V2.0.