I have been noticing a continuing descrepancy in the
design of small craft that seems to be unnoticed by everyone
else. Perhaps there has been a rule change that I am not aware
of. Take for example the standard TL15 fighter as llisted in
the Imperial Encyclopedia: a 10 ton craft with a 186MW power
plant and carrying a beam laser. A beam laser requires 500MW of
power to operate, is this an error? I have seen this same type
of error numerous times in the VD archives. Also the Falcon
fighter from last night, while it does have a power plant large
enough to support a single fusion weapon lists its ucp as x05.
at TL15 this equates to 16 weapons, that must be some turret!
I think that Traveller is an excellent game, however
the lack of consistancy bothers me greatly, another example:
"at tech level 17, laser weapons are powered from internal
matter/antimatter pods." Imp. Encycl. pp72. gee, why can't we
have power supplies like this for TL17 vehicles; the smallest
TL17 antimatter power supply listed in the design rules is
8kliters and weighs 6 tons.
I am new to TML, has this subject been broached before,
if so why are vehicles still being designed with grossly
inadequate power supplies?
just my Cr0.02 worth Andrew H. Bond mind-at-large.