Re: Naval Scout/Couriers Re: [TML] Why do those big ships carry so many fighters? Freelance Traveller (10 Oct 2014 19:13 UTC)

Re: Naval Scout/Couriers Re: [TML] Why do those big ships carry so many fighters? Freelance Traveller 10 Oct 2014 19:13 UTC

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:35:13 +0000, Bruce Johnson
<johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

>On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Ian Whitchurch <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Y'know, a jump 4 ship with jump 2 of fuel dont work too well.
>>
>> Its times like these I hate HGS :)

>Drop tanks, lots and lots of drop tanks :-)

Y'know, I always thought drop tanks were a bit underused in Traveller,
given what seemed to be the economics. I can think of several issues
that might account for this - most of which likely /wouldn't/ be issues
for military usage, in the sense that "Dammit, we need the damn drop
tanks; do what you have to".

For civilian use, though, I think I pretty well summarize the issues in
http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/tss/tss3.html - do I
miss any glaring ones?

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