Re: Honor Harrington RPG (was Re: Starship Troopers)

On Monday, Feb 9, 2004, at 09:20 Europe/London, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Slightly more seriously - does anyone know whether the people writing 
> it
> plan to handle ship combat at all, and if so how? I don't believe they
> have any wargaming background, but omitting it completely is unlikely 
> to
> be popular.

I hope they test it. The guys that did d20 Traveller (Traveller T20) 
didn't test the combat system beyond PC sized ships which meant they 
didn't notice that a meson bay (ie a secondary weapon, even though a 
military oone) has a 30% chance of completely destroying a 300,000 ton 
battleship. In a single shot!!

Compared to every previous version of Traveller that's very wrong.

Ideally, the people doing the HH RPG need to run some of the battles 
from the books as a sanity check to see if similar results are possible.

Cheers,

Dom

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