Classic or Mongoose?

[Supplement Four]

IIRC (which I do:rofl, both Brilliant Lances and Battle Rider were TNE official space combat wargames.

Thank you. I actually own those games (never played either--hated TNE--I think Battle Rider is in brand new condition with none of the counters punched), and I forgot the edition. You are correct, of course.

And even though Power Projection is designed by the people at BITS (who usually published T4 supplements), the rules are valid mainly for CT and T20 (and maybe MT?).

I haven't read it, but PP is a Traveller adaptation of Full Thurst.

 

[aramis]

I haven't read it, but PP is a Traveller adaptation of Full Thurst.

Yes, but it derives its ratings by converting CT HG and/or T20 ships to FT-compatible ratings.

 

[Supplement Four]

Yes, but it derives its ratings by converting CT HG and/or T20 ships to FT-compatible ratings.

That would be the "Traveller adaptation" part.

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

Classical Mongoose. Even CT's warts are some well designed warts, and so far from playing live and in play by post MGT seems to be a good extension of that, and is geared to be general enough to be anything. I particualry as a Referee enjoy the leg up that the character generation process can give to new players that need to think up a good backstory.

I also like the defineable qualities given to equipment and a lot of the new equipment concepts.

 

[Psion]

OTOH, some of us old timers are running MGT, too.

Here, too.

I use a lot of the CT material in my game, the conversion from CT to MGT is easy. Don't run yourself broke buying books for the MGT if you decide to try it out--the core book stands very well on its own, and many of the supplements add less to the game than you might wish.

Yeah. I think that Central Supply Catalog adds a lot to the game and rights the armor/weapon balance.

Past that, I see few must haves. But I'm a junkie for add-on chargen sequences.

I'll say this much. Though I loved all the zany, inconsistent chargen methods of CT & MT, a bit older and wiser now, I really appreciate the higher level of consistency between MongT chargen sequences.

I am running it now with a hybrid MT/MGT task system.

I can see that. MongT is straightforward and easy to use, but MT is just plain more robust.

I find that it's the best CGen of any edition; more control than any but TNE, and plenty of hooks; more than any other edition.

Yep.