To MT or not to MT
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Well, like many economies based on Free Trade and Interdependence, it was only natural that the economy would collapse combined with the investment strike from the Vilani. Keeping the Imperial edifice would just be a rehash of the Imperial Civil War (a separate Milieu) but the Rebellion was something fundamentally different which is what led to so many blunders in the early years...simply because they thought it was another Civil War.
Well, like many economies based on Free Trade and Interdependence, it was only natural that the economy would collapse combined with the investment strike from the Vilani. Keeping the Imperial edifice would just be a rehash of the Imperial Civil War (a separate Milieu) but the Rebellion was something fundamentally different which is what led to so many blunders in the early years...simply because they thought it was another Civil War.
Well, like many economies based on Free Trade and Interdependence, it was only natural that the economy would collapse combined with the investment strike from the Vilani. Keeping the Imperial edifice would just be a rehash of the Imperial Civil War (a separate Milieu) but the Rebellion was something fundamentally different which is what led to so many blunders in the early years...simply because they thought it was another Civil War.
I've got some combat rules if you'd care to see them. I've changed the armour significantly but through extrapolation, so it should stay balanced.
I've got some combat rules if you'd care to see them. I've changed the armour significantly but through extrapolation, so it should stay balanced.
I've got some combat rules if you'd care to see them. I've changed the armour significantly but through extrapolation, so it should stay balanced.
Aramis, could you tell me why you don't like the Ship/Vehicle design rules? I'm curious.
(For background, I don't use the OTU, but my own homebrew campaign, with a feel more like Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League, TL10-11 common, TL12 advanced, and anything higher rare and very unusual.)
Aramis, could you tell me why you don't like the Ship/Vehicle design rules? I'm curious.
(For background, I don't use the OTU, but my own homebrew campaign, with a feel more like Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League, TL10-11 common, TL12 advanced, and anything higher rare and very unusual.)
Aramis, could you tell me why you don't like the Ship/Vehicle design rules? I'm curious.
(For background, I don't use the OTU, but my own homebrew campaign, with a feel more like Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League, TL10-11 common, TL12 advanced, and anything higher rare and very unusual.)
Pierce_Inverarity
SOC-9
Do any of you have experience with Power Projection: Escort and/or the alternative "character-level" space combat rules from BITS? Would they be a good substitute for MT space combat? (By good I mean fast and easy to learn and run.)
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=BITSRPPE
http://www.bitsuk.net/Archive/GameRules/files/rpsc09.pdf (link to pdf)
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=BITSRPPE
http://www.bitsuk.net/Archive/GameRules/files/rpsc09.pdf (link to pdf)
Pierce_Inverarity
SOC-9
Do any of you have experience with Power Projection: Escort and/or the alternative "character-level" space combat rules from BITS? Would they be a good substitute for MT space combat? (By good I mean fast and easy to learn and run.)
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=BITSRPPE
http://www.bitsuk.net/Archive/GameRules/files/rpsc09.pdf (link to pdf)
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=BITSRPPE
http://www.bitsuk.net/Archive/GameRules/files/rpsc09.pdf (link to pdf)
Pierce_Inverarity
SOC-9
Do any of you have experience with Power Projection: Escort and/or the alternative "character-level" space combat rules from BITS? Would they be a good substitute for MT space combat? (By good I mean fast and easy to learn and run.)
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=BITSRPPE
http://www.bitsuk.net/Archive/GameRules/files/rpsc09.pdf (link to pdf)
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=BITSRPPE
http://www.bitsuk.net/Archive/GameRules/files/rpsc09.pdf (link to pdf)
mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
PP:fleet/escort is a great game - change the scale of the damage boxes and you can make it quite an exciting PC scale combat system.
You can also borrow bits from Full Thrust, upon which it is based.
You can also borrow bits from Full Thrust, upon which it is based.
mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
PP:fleet/escort is a great game - change the scale of the damage boxes and you can make it quite an exciting PC scale combat system.
You can also borrow bits from Full Thrust, upon which it is based.
You can also borrow bits from Full Thrust, upon which it is based.
mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
PP:fleet/escort is a great game - change the scale of the damage boxes and you can make it quite an exciting PC scale combat system.
You can also borrow bits from Full Thrust, upon which it is based.
You can also borrow bits from Full Thrust, upon which it is based.
Aramis, could you tell me why you don't like the Ship/Vehicle design rules? I'm curious.
</font>[/QUOTE]Ship/Vehicledesign is too complicated.
I don't mind 4 axis design sequences (Cost, Mass, Volume, Power), but I do object to 7 significant digits in the designs for a player-scale ship.
I'd prefer a more HG-style approach with 4 layers: Ships (100TD+), Small Craft (10-200Td), Vehicles (0.1-20Td), and Personal Scale Equipment (0.01-1Td).
Each layer needs to be intercompatible (a problem with T20 vehicles; they aren't).
FF&S falls down because it covers everything to the liter and kilowatt, even on capital ships.
I dislike ship combat because I dislike HG's combat system; it's not PC Friendly in either incarnation.
As for T&C, I'm working on a hybrid of T20/MT that I think will work better than either alone.
Aramis, could you tell me why you don't like the Ship/Vehicle design rules? I'm curious.
</font>[/QUOTE]Ship/Vehicledesign is too complicated.
I don't mind 4 axis design sequences (Cost, Mass, Volume, Power), but I do object to 7 significant digits in the designs for a player-scale ship.
I'd prefer a more HG-style approach with 4 layers: Ships (100TD+), Small Craft (10-200Td), Vehicles (0.1-20Td), and Personal Scale Equipment (0.01-1Td).
Each layer needs to be intercompatible (a problem with T20 vehicles; they aren't).
FF&S falls down because it covers everything to the liter and kilowatt, even on capital ships.
I dislike ship combat because I dislike HG's combat system; it's not PC Friendly in either incarnation.
As for T&C, I'm working on a hybrid of T20/MT that I think will work better than either alone.
