Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium?

[Kzintosh]

Hi-ho, all! Anyone converted (or at least started converting) the ships from the megatraveller supplement, "Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium" into T20? I'm taking a go at it, but I'd hate to duplicate effort.

 

[far-trader]

Say have I welcomed you aboard yet Kzintosh

Ambitious project. Will you be fixing the "Shattered Ships of the Fighting Imperium"* first or just attempting to convert them as is? My copy is with a friend so I won't be doing it but I think I heard talk on the boards a while back about it being an idea. Back in sec with results of a quick search...

Nope not finding it, maybe I imagined it or it was somewhere else.

* not my brilliant wit, I stole it, if the search turns up the owner I'll credit it, if not speak up and own it

 

[BetterThanLife]

Dan,
I have been calling it "Shattered Ships of the Fighting Imperium" for quite a while, but I don't recall where I saw it first either.

Definitely an ambitious project, though I am not sure of the utility. I don't believe that playing during the rebellion is really anyone's favorite campaign era. The MT rules were cool but the setting....

 

[Whipsnade]

Originally posted by Kzintosh:
Hi-ho, all! Anyone converted (or at least started converting) the ships from the megatraveller supplement, "Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium" into T20? I'm taking a go at it, but I'd hate to duplicate effort.

Kzintosh,

Hi-ho to you! Nice knickname by the way!

As for converting the so-called 'ships' of FSotSI to T20, have you bothered to fix them first? They are without doubt the most broken designs published for MT.

Just taking a wild guess here, but I'd think that before you convert them, you'll have to make them actually work in MT first. That makes your job two-fold - First, fixing very badly broken MT designs and, second, converting said designs to T20. That's quite a bit to tackle.

Good luck.


Sincerely,
Bill

 

[shield]

It might be easier to design them in T20 using the broken MT version as a template, and then optimise it in T20.

Cheers
Richard

 

[shadowcat]

I have actually fixed all the MT ships from the book and redone them to T20 standards, originally it had even been intended to publish, but I just havent had time to do all the writeups on the ships... I still have everything here

 

[shadowcat]

I should clarify the intended to publish, I had talked with Martin and Marc, and it would have been published as a T20 book, probably another travellers aid

 

[Jame]

On a sidenote - Shadowcat, did you ever have a website, listed on the G:T links section?

 

[shadowcat]

I still have a website actually, not sure where its listed linkwise anymore, I dont maintain the GT section anymore

 

[shadowcat]

heres my site, Fafrhds Pocket Empire
http://fafrhd.pocketempires.com/

 

[Kzintosh]

Wow! Thanks everyone, for the ideas and recommendations. I've started using the old Megatraveller supplement as a template, and tried to convert the concepts over into T20. Quite a chore, I should say (seeing as I don't have the design rules for the Megatraveller...oh well). I really like the idea of a TA for the Rebellion-era ships. You've got my full support, shadowcat! QuikLink can count on $5.00 (minus the CotI discount) from me!

I normally only lurk at forums, but I've been very much impressed with the Traveller community at large and the level of participation. Very impressive!