Some Interesting Military Data
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Vladika
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You can't help a pompous ass who has everything, knows everything and been employed by everyone. Except, apparently, Marc Miller...THANK GOD! Otherwise Traveller would look like...Well that might have to be another thread.
OK we have your resume
Are you looking for a job with FFE?
You keep harping "Wargames" and "Simulations". Traveller is Role play.
Larry Bond and Chris Carlson hired you. Don Featherstone hired you.
The Marine Corps hired you.
Marc Miller didn't hire you. What a shame...
OK we have your resume
Are you looking for a job with FFE?
You keep harping "Wargames" and "Simulations". Traveller is Role play.
Larry Bond and Chris Carlson hired you. Don Featherstone hired you.
The Marine Corps hired you.
Marc Miller didn't hire you. What a shame...
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Timerover51
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Actually, I simply have done a reprint of Don's book. I do like the combat tables because they do cover a very wide range of equipment.
As for the rest, Striker is much more wargaming than it is roleplaying, as are major space fleet actions. I do like accurate data, especially when I have it in my files and can use it without problems. I also have data in my files that I cannot or will not use, but such is life. As for working at FFE, I have been working for game companies off and on since 1985, GDW not being one of them. I have contacted Marc about the possibility of having the game design class that I teach during the summer producing a module adventure for Classic Traveller, but nothing has been firmed up yet.
As for resume, hmm, might as well toss in that I worked with Dr. Robert Ballard, the man who located the Titanic, when he was looking for John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific in May of 2002. I was responsible for identifying the wreck, onboard historian, weapons and explosive expert (we were dealing with Mark 8 Torpedo warheads from WW2 along with Japanese ordnance), and general technical reference person. I do appear in both the book Bob wrote on the expedition, and also the National Geographic video about the search.
I also serve on the Marine Forensic Panel as the weapons, weapon effects, explosions, and explosives expert. I do give lectures on what I call:
The Explosive Removal of Large Metallic Objects from the Surface of the Hydrosphere, or for the non-bureaucrats, How to Sink a Ship.
Now, if you would rather I not make any more comments on the forum, I would recommend that you take it up with the moderators.
timerover51,
Just an explanation of what you have missed that prompted the 'attitude'.
Just a warning: while COACC is quite an interesting book, I advise you to check the MT consolidated errata for it, mostly if you ever try to geenrate a flier character from it, as the book was quite messed with errata i nthis part, making in fact impossible to do it (even while I reitere MT is my favorite version, errata was a recurring heavy problem on it).
Fritz_Brown
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I have added it to the abbreviations list in the Wiki. (I hope that's what you meant, since I couldn't find a stickied thread in the forums. I will also add it to such if you point me to one.)
I guess he meant the sticked thread in this same forum : http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=27482 .
He's right COACC is not there.
Garyius2003
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I know it sounds a little silly, but it is 'Corps', and folks tend to take it seriously more than you would expect.
Vladika
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Not silly at all. I've corrected it in the original post. That you for drawing it to my attention and my apologies to all the marines out there.
(I do know the proper spelling but have paresthesia in my hands. It's very hard to tell when I've hit a key or not at times. Also partially blind. I'll proof better in the future.)
Timerover51
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Actually, I am not worried about using it to create characters, but I am mainly interested in what the damage and accuracy tables look like. Does it include things like napalm, aerial spray tanks, air-to-ground and air-to-air rockets (unguided weapons), and possibly air-to-air bombing and/or aerial ramming attacks? Also, I would like to see how the anti-aircraft rules work, and what they do with respect to fire-control systems.
Garyius2003
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I am sure the 3I has something similar.
Army guy in downport bar: "I am NOT a drop trooper! I am a Rapid Interface Infantryman!"
Navy guy: "So you are a Rye?" "Why Rye?"
Fight starts...
Timerover51
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I came across this in the Baker book, The Albert N'Yanza, covering his exploration of the Sources of the Nile. I understand that it is not military data, but it does pose some interesting ideas.
I was wondering what the reaction would be to a transplanted human race or an alien race to something like a dog or cat. In Andre Norton's Plague Ship, Sinbad the ship's cat figures prominently in the early part of the story, and of course Captain Jellicoe's pet Hoobat "Queex" has a major role at the end.
For that matter, how would a Vargr react to encountering a human with something like a Husky or a German Shepherd/Alsatian as an obvious pet? Or an Aslan to a pet cat?
I was wondering what the reaction would be to a transplanted human race or an alien race to something like a dog or cat. In Andre Norton's Plague Ship, Sinbad the ship's cat figures prominently in the early part of the story, and of course Captain Jellicoe's pet Hoobat "Queex" has a major role at the end.
For that matter, how would a Vargr react to encountering a human with something like a Husky or a German Shepherd/Alsatian as an obvious pet? Or an Aslan to a pet cat?
Timerover51
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No, just call an Aussie a Limey.
DangerousThing
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The Vargr might pretend to be annoyed, or perhaps be really annoyed, because you have a faint relative of their's in captivity. Of course they might be walking a pet or robot primate.
As for the Aslan, he's probably thinking that you're smart for bringing your own snack with you. The Aslan are not related to cats.
The Vargr might pretend to be annoyed, or perhaps be really annoyed, because you have a faint relative of their's in captivity. Of course they might be walking a pet or robot primate.
As for the Aslan, he's probably thinking that you're smart for bringing your own snack with you. The Aslan are not related to cats.
Isn't there a picture of this in the gallery? A human walking a dog and a Vargr walking a gorilla.
Sorry, I guess my interest on COACC was just the opposite than you.
Using traveller mostly for RPG I called more attention to CharGen and aircraft design that to air combat (both air-to-air and air-surface), and I read it some years ago, so I cannot answer your questions for sure.
Timerover51
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Hmmm, I guess that I visualize Aslan as genetically modified lions by the Ancients that did not exactly work out the way that they anticipated. Lions being preferred to tigers as lions have a pride system, whereas tigers are solitary.
Fritz_Brown
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Even without the Vargr and Aslan in an ATU setting, it *would* be interesting to play out an alien culture meeting a PC/NPC with a pet of some sort.
To direct it back onto the thread topic, what about animals as military aids? Dogs doing bomb or guard duty, dolphins doing sentry or mine work, ferrets as spies......?
To direct it back onto the thread topic, what about animals as military aids? Dogs doing bomb or guard duty, dolphins doing sentry or mine work, ferrets as spies......?
