Re: [TML] A Small Ship TU, a bit of handwavium to explain it. Phil Pugliese 15 Sep 2014 03:37 UTC
IMO, that would jibe a lot w/ the initial Imp naval dispositions as indicated in the 5thFW board game. Not exactly though as the game does show a little more 'dispersion' but I believe there still would be a number of 'gaps' where various & sundry 'unsavories' could ply their trade. -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 9/14/14, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] A Small Ship TU, a bit of handwavium to explain it. To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Sunday, September 14, 2014, 4:15 PM T]IMO the best way to do a Small Ship Universe is to have 95% of naval budgets consumed by monsters that have nothing to do but sit at naval depots until the Big War. Once we spend our hypothetical naval budget on a dozen Chevalier Sans Peurs (90kton battlewagon), then we need a couple of dozen Chevalier Sans Reproach (22.5kton battlecruisers) to keep an eye on them, and then of course they need light cruisers to escort them, and then the budget is all gone so the Patrol Force is trying to make do with a dozen frigates and some contracted Auxiliary Carriers .... On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Ok I have to admit i too am a fan of the Small Ship Universe for Traveller. One of the big things that I have been playing with is treating Main World Population as the entire systems population and spread out the in system population centers, thus system to system trade is spread out over a larger territory in destination systems. In a mechanical note my starship range is from 100 to 10,000 tons driven by "Standard" drives using the Drive letter code limited by tech level as presented by the little black books. Hull "strength" is directly relational to the cube root of displacement. Thus smaller hulls are more robust than larger ones, also this allows for smaller navel units. -- Evyn ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://archives.simplelists.com ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=EwREIRgLK8vaUEhNlnoNdSGKwnjoID8a