Miniatures Rules for Traveller Ship Combat?
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Power Projection: Fleet and Power Projection: Escort.
Like:
- Simple 1d6 system at heart.
- Vector movement.
- Can handle actions by large warships better than HG can.
- Miniatures are available: http://estore.genreconnections.com/searchresults.asp?cat=54
- Very good Zhodani ship designs.
Dislike:
- Very large ships kinda break the scale and make play cumbersome. Best played with ships up to cruiser size.
- Low granularity.
- Sand clouds are handled in a rather awkward fashion, but there's an optional rule
Recommend: Yes. It's recently gone OOP, though.
Like:
- Simple 1d6 system at heart.
- Vector movement.
- Can handle actions by large warships better than HG can.
- Miniatures are available: http://estore.genreconnections.com/searchresults.asp?cat=54
- Very good Zhodani ship designs.
Dislike:
- Very large ships kinda break the scale and make play cumbersome. Best played with ships up to cruiser size.
- Low granularity.
- Sand clouds are handled in a rather awkward fashion, but there's an optional rule
Recommend: Yes. It's recently gone OOP, though.
Which ever one I am running.
Well, at first it was all Book 2, all the time. Made sense as that was all I had. Dabbled a smidge in MT and T4. And before I traded it to my friend in the Ranger's (1/75) I ran some Traveller: 2300 (yeah, I kick it old school like that).
Now, of course I use Traveller5 rules and I have am having the Void's own time of trying to get Range Bands (which I do so love from CT Personal Combat) to work on a hex map with miniatures. And by Gods above, I use miniatures!
*And a moment of silence for those fallen Grenadier Imperial Marines now MIA, presumed KIA, along with the ancient Map of the Near Earth Stars and the cool flywheel powered LASERs*
*Now a joyous celebration that my Space Fleet is five ships strong, Thank you, My Patron!*
Well, at first it was all Book 2, all the time. Made sense as that was all I had. Dabbled a smidge in MT and T4. And before I traded it to my friend in the Ranger's (1/75) I ran some Traveller: 2300 (yeah, I kick it old school like that).
Now, of course I use Traveller5 rules and I have am having the Void's own time of trying to get Range Bands (which I do so love from CT Personal Combat) to work on a hex map with miniatures. And by Gods above, I use miniatures!
*And a moment of silence for those fallen Grenadier Imperial Marines now MIA, presumed KIA, along with the ancient Map of the Near Earth Stars and the cool flywheel powered LASERs*
*Now a joyous celebration that my Space Fleet is five ships strong, Thank you, My Patron!*
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I don't use miniatures much when playing Traveller space combats, but I also don't do big fleet stuff. Usually, it's only a ship or two per side. I use the standard MgT rules with some personal interpretations.
Now having said that, I *do* play space combat games that aren't Traveller, and Starmada is probably my favorite of them. (Full Thrust is great too, but Starmada tickles my fancy a bit more.) I've see Traveller conversions for Starmada (And Starmada: Fleet Ops, which is a less detailed games), but since Starmada's a wargame at heart, there's not a lot of room for characters to add their skills to the mix.
Now having said that, I *do* play space combat games that aren't Traveller, and Starmada is probably my favorite of them. (Full Thrust is great too, but Starmada tickles my fancy a bit more.) I've see Traveller conversions for Starmada (And Starmada: Fleet Ops, which is a less detailed games), but since Starmada's a wargame at heart, there's not a lot of room for characters to add their skills to the mix.
