The GCarrier should be larger.
Or that it is a typo and the entry is wrong. I admit, I tend to ignore a single reference that does not tie into other references in game books for that exact reason. The proof reading and editing quality in game books is notorious for such errors. I know, it is just my opinion but I elect to go by the original entries and the raft is NOT larger than the G/Carrier.
So you say how many DTons something requires with ideal packing (or 'average', as long as you're consistent), and let the cargomaster/chief freight handler make a skill check to pack more in if they need to. And another to see if they loaded everything in the right order, should that become important. Nothing like landing at Dinomn and finding that someone has stacked all the freight behind the crates bound for Dinom...But for a tabletop roleplaying game, particularly a "snappy, fast paced and fun" one ... playing TETRIS to "make everything fit" is really more hassle than it's worth.
Hence why this level of detail down to the Actual Dimensions™ is left vague enough such that you only have to worry about displacement tons without needing to muck around dealing with length x width x height details.
With one cubic metre per passenger, which seems to include access space, there's not much room, so no wonder it's 'small'. Using something a little less cramped (FF&S considered 1.5 m^3 per person too cramped for normal use, and called 2.5 m^3 'cramped') would add anywhere from seven to 21 cubic metres to the G-carrier's volume.
Key part to keep in mind is the Gcarrier performance is the same but is armored and has enough extra power to fire the weapon. So a lot more power plant/battery and lifters.
They are both CT and they are both GCarriers. Both are equally CT and canonical.
is a new perspective. I do not have this book, but it seems much more in line with what I can build with book 6. It changes the main Traveller book notion of air/rafts requiring 4 dtons of space, but I don't have a problem if they don't. BTW, 1.5m^3 per person seems roomy compared with coach seating on an airline, which is probably closer to 1m^3.
Not exactly. Striker is a miniatures wargame for Traveller with a design sequence that produces vehicles for Striker. It can not reproduce the vehicles listed in LBB:3.
Now get out of that airline seat in a hurry, with your gear. Oh, right - there's no room for a decent-sized person in combat gear. The G-carrier is supposed to be at least combat-adjacent, but the only way the passengers could use it as such is if it only carries 8-10 passengers. APCs are cramped, but not that cramped (well, until their users cram extra kit into every available space). But this is a minor quibble, really. MgT1 Supp5&6 are, like most other Traveller vehicle design rules, a thing unto themselves (TNE did use FF&S for its stuff, so errata aside it was internally consistent).
So what? HG'80 can't reproduce the ships in LBB2, it's still CT.
Does that mean that the Gazelle, the Kinunir, and the Leviathan are not Traveller ship or CT ships?
Trick question that one.
Isn't that the truth for sure. 90% or more of the "discussions" I see on here involve to a degree the lack of compatibility or consistency over the various editions or sub-editions.
