Traders & Gunboats : Cheers & Jeers

[Patron Zero]

I received a hard copy of Supplement 2: Traders and Gunboats in today's morning mails as a post-Boxing Day present, it's arrival was both a pleasant surprise and after an initial browse, sadly a mild disappointment.

Let me first say the newly presented ship designs were brilliant and captured the flavor and spirit of the original Classic Traveller vessels in the various GDW black books, what was truly distressing were the small and frequently near-unreadable accompanying deck plans.

I do understand about the cost of printing as having worked in the publishing field but cannot fathom the decision to have not included a reasonable page allotment for said illustrations which are the bone, and bane, of this technical based tome.

In my opinion, perhaps the inclusion of a standard CD or set of mini-discs to support higher resolution images of the printed book's often lilliputian scaled interior illustrations might have been considered.

My praise and chastising aside, Supplement 2 is a good reference book for any Traveller referee and deserving of it's place along side the original collective Classic Traveller materials.

 

[AndrewW]

Let me first say the newly presented ship designs were brilliant and captured the flavor and spirit of the original Classic Traveller vessels in the various GDW black books, what was truly distressing were the small and frequently near-unreadable accompanying deck plans.

Agreed, in particular the map key on some of them is too small to read in some cases. While the book does have some errors in the various ship designs overall I think most of them are pretty decent designs.

 

[GypsyComet]

I like this book. I ripped it to shreds:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37981

But I like it.

 

[Patron Zero]

I feel pretty much the same but my issue again is the deck plans themselves and how such were presented. Hoping perhaps there might be some 'correction' to this dilemma but short of seeing an errata CD of corrected and fully viewable plans issued I'm likely to redraw such here as best as I can manage. *sighs*