[TML] [ct-starships] Book Two weapons plus. The Mayday project cont.

Wed Jun 4 11:59:59 MDT 2008

My first edition LBBs don't have heavy lasers as a ship weapon...

But why Mayday; I've always thought the range band combat of TTB/ST was much
better than Mayday.
Also, I thought Mayday was a conversion of LBB2 starship combat.

:)

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Evyn MacDude <infojunky at ceecom.net> wrote:

>   The story thus far, I have this grand plan in my head, and well now
> kinda on paper, of converting/updating Book 2 starship combat into
> something like Mayday. Directly this isn't that big a deal, but I amy
> also coupling it with bits and pieces of other editions of Traveller,
> most notably MGT.
>
> The base scale is 1000 second terns with a 10,000 km hex, i.e. 30
> hexes equals 1 light-second. The game board is a 24 by 36 inch sheet
> of 6 mm hexes and play will be plotted.
>
> Those are givens.
>
> Now, the question is what are the relative turret weapon damages?
>
> Book 2 has:
> Beam Laser = 1 hit
> Pulse Laser = 2 hits
> Missiles = 1d6 hits (Note there is a similar system in Special
> Supplement 3 Missiles, and I am going to include, but it really only
> adds options for missiles. and is ratable in the same scale as book 2)
>
> These are all a given, so how do the ones added in High Guard rate on
> this scale, in gross damage?
>
> Plasma Guns
> Fusion Guns
> PAs
> PA Barbettes
>
> And as a added bit, there is reference to Heavy Lasers in early
> Journals, I believe these were in 1st edition/printings of book 2,
> which I do not have a copy of any more. So any body wish to enlighten
> me?
>
> Evyn MacDude
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