Saturday, May 5, 2012

Star Ships

Coming up with a set of Startship rules has turned out to be pretty straight forward.  I wanted to do "Vector Movement" the way that Classic Book 2 did, and it turns out that the stand-alone game "Mayday" explained a way to do that which is much simpler than the original form.

I'm thinking that I want to stick to the original Book 2 "Small Ship Universe" where the biggest ships are about 5000 displacement tons (not the million plus of High Guard).   I may whip up a few rules adding fusion guns and partical accelerators to the basic game, and lumping several turrets into a battery for larger ships.

3 comments:

  1. Used to have Mayday. I really liked the vector mechanics. It just seems fairly realistic, and yet, pretty simple at the same time. WHOO Hoo! We gonna be Space Cowboys?

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  2. You know the motto for old school Traveller:
    "Let's go from world to world and do crime!"

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  3. LOL! That does ring a bell. :D

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