TMB and HG Starships - Design Theory Question

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It also really cuts down on the number of ships covered. Ships small enough or compact enough (at larger sizes) to cover in just a few pages is one thing, but twelve pages for one ship (the Sylea in MGT HG) that I'm going to have to re-draw anyway to be useful for a shoot-out near the sick-bay* is not good use of pagecount. Give us poster maps in a boxed set, ala AHL, instead.

I'm not saying that Mongoose should abandon or hedge on the deckplan promise, but if quality is ill-served by clumping and 1:750 maps, moving stuff around and exploring format alternatives should be looked into.

I have to agree. It was nice, and I am sure a lot of time and effort was put into that design, but, how often are you going to use a ship that big.

If you put that time and effort into a map of a space station, that might be more useful for Referees and Players alike. FASA produced Starport Module One. Unfortunately, they never published anymore modules. They had a great idea. Mongoose should take that idea and run with it instead of publishing ship plans that are of little practical use.

*by the way, How many tons does a Sickbay take up? How much does it cost?