Re: Traveller

Martin ??? wrote:
>YehSomeone has done it before! A couple of years back a friend and I
were 
>involved in a Traveller campaign (he was Gming it in fact) and we
wanted a 
>quick way to resolve ship to ship combat, being none too enamoured with

>the "official" Striker rules.

There was a fair amount of discussion on this subject on this list only 
recently. Check out the archives on Jerry Hans Web page.

"Striker" for ship to ship combat?? No, no. "Striker" was a (pretty 
useless) set of rules for ground combat.

>So we set about converting Full Thrust and it seemed to work quite
well. 
>I'll dig the rules out and post them if you like. The only problem we
had 
>was in trying to work out combat between ships of widely ranging size,
but
>sinceour role-playing group only ever came across the smaller ships we 
>ignored this (the problem of hugely differing sized ships) and said if
the 
>situation came up we'd role-play it! Bit of a cop out I know but worked

>really well. Even had rules for Zhodani psychers to try and intervene
in 
>ship to ship combat (bit like B5 eh!). 

I'm sure a lot of people here would be interested to see your rules, 
Martin, please.

>Cheers
>Martin

Mike Elliott