Missiles in 2300

[tytalan]

One of the most common misconceptions in 2300 is that it ever uses the regular missile rules. It does not since 2300 does not have missiles. Now here were a lot of people get confused single shot bomb pumped drones are commonly called missiles “Combat Drones: Combat drones are armed drones, either with multi-shot lasers or powerful bomb-pumped detonation lasers. The variety with multi-shot lasers are often called drone fighters and are intended to use reused multiple times. The variety loaded with detonation lasers are sometimes called ‘missiles’, especially in American service, but are usually just called combat drones, or sometimes bomb drones.” [Pg 48 book 3 ] but are not. ‘Missiles’ in 2300 are controlled and are not the fire and forget that ‘Missiles’ in core Traveller are and do not use the same rules. This causes much confusion since 2300 Missiles are controlled by their controllers and are both better at hitting their target as well as avoiding being hit. This is also why Bomb pumped lasers have a -2 to hit at close range but none at adjacent (most drones weapons have a range of adjacent which is one of the reasons that point defense in 2300 is so common). The fact is 2300 uses entirely different ship design and combat rules, yes you need the Traveller core for things like Character Generation, Skill use, And other basic game mechanics but completely ignore (other than the few direct references) The CRB and HG for 2300 ship design and combat. Actually the more useful supplement for 2300 currently is the Robots Handbook.