Errors and Corrigenda

A thread of 2 messages, 19 July 1990 to 20 July 1990, in the order they were sent.

#1434 Errors and Corrigenda

Robert S. Dean · 19 July 1990

While I was designing the Tiger class of fighting vehicles today, I had out my
copy of Striker to do a few cross checkes, and noticed the answer to something
that had disturbed me previously.  It would appear from the MegaTraveller design
rules that Mass Driver guns are not cost effective because they are such huge
energy hogs.  However...all other gun rules are completely compatible with
Striker.  Rates of Fire are doubled from Striker's "per 30 second" basis to
a "per minute" basis.  On P.78 of MegaTraveller Book 2, ROF for MD guns is given
as 1 for the base energy amount.  If you cehck Striker, you will notice that
that you calculate the same base energy, for a rate of fire of 1 *per second*.
I suppose that this was supposed to be the same, and should be noted by anyone
working on this sort of stuff.

This means that any previously designed vehicles with mass driver guns (and I
ahve at least one in the collection I uploaded previously) should have their
rates of fiore multiplied by 60.  This may or may not hold true for 101
Vehicles (I haven't checked yet).

An error noted on Vehicles Part 4:  The "Hoplite" TL15 grav tank is
displacement 4, not 6.

Does anyone else care about this sort of stuff?

:::Rob Dean:::

(That is, if I am annoying everyone with this series of error notes, I'll
stop)

Sorry about the typing today...in a hurry.

#1439 Re: (1434) Errors, etc

William Dow Rieder · 20 July 1990 · reply to #1434

Rob Dean writes:
>Does anyone else care about this sort of stuff?

Yes!  I find it very interesting.  The amount of time and effort it takes
to get good at vehicle design makes them very useful.  As I discovered
when I started designing starships, there is a big difference between
designs by someone who knows how things work, as opposed to how
the GDW people THINK things work.  I haven't had time to look
closely at most of them yet, but I have all 100k of them saved.  The
designs I think are most useful are the trucks, etc.  (Military vehicles
you can generally plan ahead of time, but you never know when the
stats of an ordinary civilian vehicle might be needed...)
	Thanks,

					W. Dow Rieder

 	When the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems
start to look like nails...