[High Guard] Preview/Date?
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Duroon said:
And October is TOMORROW ... and, theoretically, High Guard is an OCTOBER release :shock:
Maybe (yeah, right, pull the other one, it plays "Jingle Bells" :wink: ) they've foregone the preview because HG will be out TOMORROW?
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
(If you're interested, I got these shares in the Harbour Bridge, AAA+ rated by Moody's 8) )
Phil
Hi guys,
High Guard will be appearing at the end of the month, and I should be getting previews through for it any day now!
High Guard will be appearing at the end of the month, and I should be getting previews through for it any day now!
To some extent this might be harder for High Guard than it was for Mercenary as naval terms have changed a lot even in the lost century or so. The meanings of cruiser, destroyer and frigate have changed as technology and rolls evolve. The frigate in particular is worth following from the cruiser role in the age of sail to the powerful early ironclad and then a relatively small escort in WW II and the modern ASW ship.
I am relatively familiar with this sort of thing so when someone says ‘destroyer’ I expect to see something smaller than a cruiser, fast and well armed for its size (basically the classic WW II interpretation). I do not want to see the mistakes [1] made in Star Wars and Babylon 5 repeated where a destroyer is a capital ship because it sounds scary.
From what has gone before it seems that Traveller follows the WW II model fairly closely though carriers and the fighters they carry are not the superships they are in some other settings [2]. In fact fighters seem a bit marginal in a serious fight.
Notes
1. This is of course a very arguable point of view and should not be interoperated as a criticism of two SF series I dearly love – well, most of them.
2. Which I think is a great thing but that might just be me.
I am relatively familiar with this sort of thing so when someone says ‘destroyer’ I expect to see something smaller than a cruiser, fast and well armed for its size (basically the classic WW II interpretation). I do not want to see the mistakes [1] made in Star Wars and Babylon 5 repeated where a destroyer is a capital ship because it sounds scary.
From what has gone before it seems that Traveller follows the WW II model fairly closely though carriers and the fighters they carry are not the superships they are in some other settings [2]. In fact fighters seem a bit marginal in a serious fight.
Notes
1. This is of course a very arguable point of view and should not be interoperated as a criticism of two SF series I dearly love – well, most of them.
2. Which I think is a great thing but that might just be me.
aspqrz said:klingsor said:
And hopefully
a) Ensure the writer doesn't misuse and mangle military terminology :lol:
and
b) Actually includes a selection of technologies (both OTU and non OTU) that everyone can agree are both believable and real high tech.
Phil
Hail to that....and if I see TL 16 Particle guns doing a "show-stopping +1" dmg or something silly there is going to be ranting!
Looking forward to the preview Mongoose.
Dark Lord Skippy
Mongoose
aspqrz said:
My bet is early November. It was a July release until August when it became an August release until mid-August when it went to September... and then in late August became October.
So November at the earliest.....if not after Christmas.
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
So it takes you two weeks to row to the US, then two weeks to row back againmsprange said:
w00t!
Dark Lord Skippy said:
Seeing as it is already at print, I will take that bet! What would you say, three Bob and a pickled egg? I'll give odds on those
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
Bob: i) Short, vernacular form of the male name Robert; ii) Old (pre-decimalisation) British term for a shilling (12 old pence); iii) Name of the female character who dressed as a male whilst in the employ of Edmund Blackadder. Usually pronounced in a slightly explosive manner, as in:qstor said:Whats a Bob? Is that like a quid?msprange said:Seeing as it is already at print, I will take that bet! What would you say, three Bob and a pickled egg? I'll give odds on those
Mike
- other side of the pond
"Good thinking, Bob."
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
Make it half-a-crown, a pint of Double Diamond and a pickled gherkin and I'm in :shock:msprange said:Seeing as it is already at print, I will take that bet! What would you say, three Bob and a pickled egg? I'll give odds on thoseDark Lord Skippy said:
:wink:
I'll go everyone one better
So long as there is no massive disaster (!), we'll have copies here at our B5 Open Day!
So long as there is no massive disaster (!), we'll have copies here at our B5 Open Day!
dmccoy1693
Cosmic Mongoose
msprange said:
Does the US economy turning to butterscotch pudding count as a massive disaster? :wink:
dmccoy1693 said:
Umm, only if you are in the US?
