I looked at the Mercenary Cruiser in The Traveller Book one day. I thought it looked like a medium sized craft with some punch. I imagined that it was a craft for a regular sized merc company and some of their support materials, capable of defending itself fairly well in a ship to ship fight.
Mator (who doesn't seems to have continued posting here since his first post) showed me that cruiser in the MT books and said that since it wasn't a 10000 ton ship it was probably fairly puny and not a much of a fighting ship. It has lousy values compared to the MT dreadnoughts, he said.
So, anyone know if that CT ship have been detailed more somewhere? Is it a puny ship for a rundown merc company, or a fairly decent ship with some ability so fight and transport troops?
I have a very vauge picture of what constitutes a "big" ship in CT really. And it sounds like such a ship could be useful in a future campaign. But then only if it actually could fight for itself with at least some planet defender ships.
Mator (who doesn't seems to have continued posting here since his first post) showed me that cruiser in the MT books and said that since it wasn't a 10000 ton ship it was probably fairly puny and not a much of a fighting ship. It has lousy values compared to the MT dreadnoughts, he said.
So, anyone know if that CT ship have been detailed more somewhere? Is it a puny ship for a rundown merc company, or a fairly decent ship with some ability so fight and transport troops?
I have a very vauge picture of what constitutes a "big" ship in CT really. And it sounds like such a ship could be useful in a future campaign. But then only if it actually could fight for itself with at least some planet defender ships.