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Re: Power Projection: Escort

From: Roger Books <roger.books@g...>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:22:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Power Projection: Escort

Traveller/Mayday is pretty hard on PCs also.

"4 hits in one turn causes the ship to explode."
"3 hits on 3 consecutive turns causes the ship to explode."

Roger Books

On 6/16/05, Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:05:21AM -0400, Robert W. Eldridge wrote:
> >In all fairness, ships die fast because the rules system is written
to 
> allow
> >for very large ships (see Power Projection: Fleet for the
battleships, 
> etc.)
> >and so escort size ships are pre force very small and fragile. I
think
> >overall the Power Projection series (Escort nd Fleet) are excellent 
> games,
> >but maybe not suitable for an RPG.
> 
> Oh, absolutely. They're great fun, but they're not particularly
suitable
> for a typical RPG situation.
> 
> Roger
>


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