> The 101 Vehicles book (I don't remember the title exactly,
> sorry) doesn't include ANY starships -- I know because I'm
> dealing with exactly the same problem you are -- how to get
> all those great Traveller ships into my game without doing
> any real work (especially the ones from Supplement 9 -- Fighting
> Ships).
Just how compatible are ships designed under High Guard with the new system?
The sizes of various things have changed; density is no longer constant, which
means mass and volume aren't necessarily equivalent any more; and you have to
account for all the sensors separately. As an exercise, let someone try to
design a Type S scout courier, similar in performance and TL to the original,
as designed in Book 2. That means TL9!
> As a sidebar, the "Rebellion Sourcebook" -- which is basically
> a rules-free description of the politics and people of the
> Shattered Imperium -- does contain plans for a *few* battleships
> and cruisers.
Plans?! For what size "battleships"? Remember "Azhanti High Lightning", which
had a dozen or so A3-sized plans of decks, and each plan represented many
similar decks. And that was only a heavy cruiser! I'd expect the plans for,
say, a "Plankwell" class 200,000 ton battleship to occupy a book by themselves.
> I asked my hobby store clerk, who generally seems to know
> what's coming out, if GDW had any plans to release something
> like the old supplements 7 and 9. He said he didn't know
> of any such releases planned within the next year :-(.
How does one get something "Approved for use with Traveller" by GDW? Maybe we
could release our own?
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