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How do you USE your favorite ships?

Badbru wrote:

"Yep, thanks Larson..."


Mr. Badbru,

No problem, glad I could help for once! ;)

"They're (the AHL-class cruisers - LEW) quite popular as they pop up in most versions of Traveller that I've seen, somewhere in there you'll find at least a reference to them."

Exactly! Those AHL deckplans have been recycled into more adventures than you can shake a stick at. ISTR them being used in a Challenge magazine amber zone set at an Imperial Research Station.

The AHLs are big, the 3I built a lot of them, and they've gone on to various 'post-Navy' careers too. The IISS owns a few, Oberlindes uses one as a freighter in the Vargr Extents, another is used as a high speed courier twixt Terra and Sylea (hauling special wines and coffee for the Emperor along with more prosaic items!), a few have been lost, and the Zhos even managed to 'steal' one. You can toss an AHL-class cruiser into your campaign without nearly a thought as the ships are like mice in the waincotting - they're everywhere!


Sincerely,
Larsen
 
Originally posted by Jak Nazrith:
Interesting so far. But I still haven't seen any "big" ships that so many of us like to dream up and write up... then they just sit in a note book collecting dust... :-(
The reason I'm asking is I'm thinking of a way to get a large ship (deck plans included) to start an adventure / campaign on. The players will start the standard process of character generation, but instead of finishing off their last tour, mustering out, etc... on paper, they get to role play their last tour.
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Been there, done that. The last campaign I ran the PCs were all still in service to the IN and assigned to a fleet during the 5FW. More specifically, they were billeted aboard a Ghalalk class Armoured Cruiser (or atleast they were till it got blown out of the sky over Mithril).

They weren't in command of the cruiser, they were part of the Irregular Operations department (aka the odd job squad). Once they were allocated a Broadsword class Cruiser to command (that mission took a few sessions to play), they've been the focus of a murder investigation aboard ship, and there was a whole session devoted to "getting off the ship while its on fire and drifting out of control towards a planet". At that scale the ship (and the fleet) becomes more of a mobile base for the PCs than a ship in the traditional sense.

I'd like to have deckplans for a Ghalalk, I did detail out a number of sections (the location of a murder, the route from the PCs' quarters to a lifeboat, etc) but not a coherant set.

Regards PLST
 
Cool, cool, cool, and cool. I'll have to look around Ebay or whatever and see if I can't find a copy of that game. Thanks to all.
 
One of the scenarios that comes with the Azhanti High Lightning game involves a group of PC-types stealing several cases of rare Terran wine from the ship detailed to Capital-Terra courier duty. The ref of the group I played in at the time ran this as a one-off adventure, but you could easily adapt this idea to an existing campaign.

"OK, the Admiral's quarters where we need to plant the incriminating evidence are... here. The personnel air lock our inside man will open for us is... here. Hmm, that's a long way to travel unnoticed..."

John
 
The the back of MT Rebellion Sourcebook there is an outline for an adventrue in which the PC' are given an Imperiallines TJ 2000-ton Frontier Transport By ArchDuke Norris. The ship is capable of jump-6 and it is fairly well armed. The Crew Requirements are fairly small given the size of the ship. All of the Important roles can be filled with PC's and the Grunts can be easly staffed by NPC's. The Mission is to travel from Moria in the Spinward Marches to Depot and Back again with some valuable milatary cargo. Iv'e been looking at converting this adventure to T20 and running it for my group. It would give the Pc's a big ship and to be able to play with some of the Big Boys out there. There are no deck plans but I think that I can draw someting up for this ship if I actuall do run this campaign.

My other favorite ship is a The Dante: TL: 14 Fiery Class Gun Escort. The ship is not to big but it is verry appropriate sized for PC's I do have the MT stats for this Puppy along with Deckplans and some very good art for this ship.
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smilinggm wrote: "...I do have the MT stats for this Puppy along with Deckplans and some very good art for this ship."

Cool! Anyway to share?
 
Ill see what I can do I will try to remember the web site as to where I found the art. As to the ship I will look into what I can legaly send you.
 
Craig's decplans are NOT EVEN CLOSE to the official ones for the AHL. He's got a deck parrallel to thrust axis, while the official puts the decking perpendicular.
 
When starting a new campaign, I always ensure that my players have to work towards getting a ship and the indepandce they want so much! That way they really do appreciate the advantages gained in being in charge of even the crappiest merchant. I like low tech designs as their more interesting and sometimes more loveable, My groups favourite ship though was the classic standard Beowulf Class Free Trader, with some custom mods bought and paid for by the pcs over time, they eventually outgrew this and got themselves something bigger and faster, but still look back to the days of their first ship with some love and nostalgia. Which I think is the way its supposed to be.
 
Aaaahhh yes the good ole days of running around in the good old scout courier. Everything was new and you didn't know "yet" what other ships were available to you then. This was in the hey day of CT, 82-84, before MT, TNE, and the rest. We always seemed to manage to cram every square inch of that little ship with cargo and adventuring supplies!
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Thanks again Savage for supplying that great links!
 
Jak N
Skip down to T20- Traveller 20 pages (this site)
and go to Gateway to Destiny, there's a post in there for the Gateway Domain Sourcebook cover which has a picture of an AHL Cruiser on it
 
Yeah, I noticed that. I wonder if anyone has modeled in 3d renderings. If I ever have the time and software, one day, I would like to create the deck plans for every ship in the traveler cannon universe... and then include some of my own.
I guess if I win the lottery, retire, and after I get bored of the French Rivera, I'll do it!
Yep, shoot for the stars baby! :D
 
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