Blunder #1:
In the Rebellion Sourcebook, the part on the Factions of the Rebellion, there
is talk about a table of 'friends and enemies'. Have anyone out there actually
seen such a creature?
Blunder #2:
According to the Ref's Manual, MesonScreens draws a unholy amount of power.
In a design example of by Joe Fugate (TD 11 or TD 12, I think) where he remakes
the old Regal Class BC from TCS, he gives it a MesonScreen that is supposed to
draw 0.9 MW/kl of craft volume, this would be about 900,000 MW. And this is the
figure given in the text, *but in the table in the article it is reduced to
90,000 MW* (The powerplant would never in any way be able to support 900,000MW).
BTW, the article seemed to use the latest version of the design system,
including all erratas, even the '/50 if over 50' rule for gunners and bridge
crew.
When I checked with High Guard (Yes, I know, I'm a anacronism. But I still
treat the old books as 'default' when MegaTraveller don't make sense) I got a
figure of about 180,000 MW (One enerypoint equals 250MW).
So here I have 3 opinions about how much power a mesonscreen requires, and
they differ by a factor of ten, sheesh! Is there a errata that I have missed
that divides the energy for mesonscreens by 10 and not only the optimized meson
screens?
('Shattered Ships of the Fighting Imperium' seems to have been using the
very high figures from the Ref's Manual. But those designs break against the
erratas, and even against the vehicle design rules in several ways.
Example: Bay missile battery rounds: According to one of the erratas, 100t
bays have a batteryrnd of 100missiles and 50t 50 missiles, yet the designs give
the number of missiles in a battery round, and the numbers are far to low.)
Blunder #3: 'The case of the Chameleon Planets'
In the library data sections of 'The Early Adventures' the UPP's of Deneb
and Exile/Usani are listed. The Deneb sector was recently featured in the
Digest, with UPP's and everything.
Guess what, they don't match! :-(
(A player in my campaign also claimed that Antiquity isn't on the correct spot
as it was given in Imperial Encyclopedia. I suspect that he is wrong about that
one but I havn't had time to check it out yet.)
- -bertil-
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