Lord High Munchkin
Mongoose
It was in 'Challenge' too.Infojunky said:
Ship Design Philosophy
- Thread starter Condottiere
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If you do a Google search you can find a copy of the supplement out there.
You can also support your game publisher's by picking up the Challenge magazine where the article is contained for a buck-fifty. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/89549/Journal-of-the-Travellers-Aid-Society-Issue-No-21?term=traveller+missiles&cPath=4765
You can also support your game publisher's by picking up the Challenge magazine where the article is contained for a buck-fifty. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/89549/Journal-of-the-Travellers-Aid-Society-Issue-No-21?term=traveller+missiles&cPath=4765
Lord High Munchkin said:
No, it wasn't, but you might be thinking of the Article on Missiles in 2300ad in Challenge 36.... I just read the entire run of jTas and Challenge again (Lots of downtime in the last 12 months) Now there is a larger than background chance that some form of the article may be in one of the 3rd party fanzines of which I don't have a complete run of, as some development ideas were run up the flag pole for comment in those sources....
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Missiles - CT Customized
1. Is there a significant difference?
2. Well, now we can describe missiles as 15G7, 10G10 and 8G10.
3. While I actually don't care that much, as long as the guidelines make sense; I rather doubt that my lite fighter will be in combat long enough to shoot off ten shots, having 0.03 ton missiles would work out for me since I could reduce the fighter footprint even smaller, or missile pods would look very similar to current equipment.
4. However, Mongoose says twelve standard missiles take up one ton; 0.003 ton missiles would number three hundred plus.
1. Is there a significant difference?
2. Well, now we can describe missiles as 15G7, 10G10 and 8G10.
3. While I actually don't care that much, as long as the guidelines make sense; I rather doubt that my lite fighter will be in combat long enough to shoot off ten shots, having 0.03 ton missiles would work out for me since I could reduce the fighter footprint even smaller, or missile pods would look very similar to current equipment.
4. However, Mongoose says twelve standard missiles take up one ton; 0.003 ton missiles would number three hundred plus.
Lord High Munchkin
Mongoose
Well, 2300AD is an official 'Traveller' setting... it wasn't when the article was written, I'll grant, but you can certainly use some of the figures and mechanics as additional information now that it is.Infojunky said:
Lord High Munchkin said:
Missiles in 2300AD are all stutterwarp driven and
come in several types: Bomb-pumped laser missiles, remote
drones armed with a conventional laser or particle-beam
system and bus missiles, which act as delivery vehicles for
several smaller sub-munition-style warheads.
pg 213
Somewhat different than the normal Traveller missile.
Lord High Munchkin
Mongoose
Stutterwarp is a perfectly respectable 'Traveller' technology.dragoner said:
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Hulls - Exotic Materials
I wonder, if the starship isn't going to be used for atmospheric re-entry, if you could construct it out of hard wood?
I wonder, if the starship isn't going to be used for atmospheric re-entry, if you could construct it out of hard wood?
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
NO! 
Even though it doesn't go into an atmosphere, the hull also had to provide SOME kind of radiation protection and particle protection. Even a ship that isn't moving will be exposed to cosmic and solar radiation (not to mention radiation from the Van Alan belts). Wood doesn't protect well against these kinds of radiation.
Space is not actually empty and a ship flying through it will encounter a lot of particle radiation (1 hydrogen atom per cubic centimeter is the "average"). Wood is not such a great radiation shield. Now, if you have force fields to protect your ship, then perhaps you could use wood.
Even though it doesn't go into an atmosphere, the hull also had to provide SOME kind of radiation protection and particle protection. Even a ship that isn't moving will be exposed to cosmic and solar radiation (not to mention radiation from the Van Alan belts). Wood doesn't protect well against these kinds of radiation.
Space is not actually empty and a ship flying through it will encounter a lot of particle radiation (1 hydrogen atom per cubic centimeter is the "average"). Wood is not such a great radiation shield. Now, if you have force fields to protect your ship, then perhaps you could use wood.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Hulls - Exotic Materials
1. Hard to imagine Space Vikings without their solar-sailed longboats.
2. And here all I thought all that was missing was a suitable sealant to make it air tight.
3. I guess it would have to be limited to panelling and floors.
1. Hard to imagine Space Vikings without their solar-sailed longboats.
2. And here all I thought all that was missing was a suitable sealant to make it air tight.
3. I guess it would have to be limited to panelling and floors.
