MT to MGT Conversion?

[SSWarlock]

Has anyone done any work on converting MegaTraveller ship design (armor, uber-tech weaponry, etc.) to the MGT standard? I'm thinking of doing so but thought I'd save myself some time if someone has already done it.

 

[rust]

I looked into it, but decided that it would not be worth the trouble to at-
tempt it.

The Mongoose Traveller starship design system is much less granular than
the MegaTraveller starship design system, and in my view it takes less ti-
me to design a starship with the same basic characteristics (hull volume,
jump drive, maneuver drive, etc.) with Mongoose Traveller than to try to
convert the MegaTraveller stat block into Mongoose Traveller terms.

 

[rje]

David, I suggest mining T5's ship construction for MGT-compatible uber-high-tech components, as it has lots of the goodies found in MT but is closer to MGT.

 

[SSWarlock]

Sweet..mucho gracias.

 

[rje]

Sweet..mucho gracias.

Material includes rules for dealing with:

* high-tech versions of the (fully MGT compatible) drives (up to TL23).
* alternate power plants up to TL26, including antimatter.
* individual sensor units (build your own suite) from TL8 to TL23.
* weapons up to TL24.
* defenses up to TL22.
* armor up to TL23.
* computers up to TL22, including AI and semi-organics.
* additional, uber-high-tech drives.

All of this stuff is easier than MT to adapt to MGT. In some cases, adaptation is trivial (drives). In two cases (computers and armor), it's difficult.