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Who are we?

Name: James (Spider)
Age: 34
Country: Great Britain, England
Favorite Version of Traveller: Classic Traveller but heavilly modified and with more monkies
Occupation: Supervising people selling credit cards to mugs (bank managment)oh and being a part time vigilantee
Military Service: Royal Marine and proud (SQ ML1)
What it entailed: Shouting at ML2s and RLs oh and something about mountains
Favorite Supplement: Mercenary and Striker I suppose
Favorite Sector: Oh theres so many...
Favorite Race: Solomani (got to look after your descendents)
Favorite Empire: Third Imperium in Traveller outside of it hmmm Warhammer 40,000 Imperium (a baby with an extra finger?! Destroy the planet!)
Favorite World: A rich one with a standard atmosphere were I am very rich and powerful and everyone else is my serf so not Terra circa 2004
Favourite leisure activity - Anything involving motorcycles and the smell of rubber, oh wait that makes me sound like a perv...
 
Name: James Liam Mc
Age: 33
Country: Fla, USA.
Favorite Version of Traveller: CT with some house rules
Military Service: USArmy signal corps..I was a RTO!

Favorite Supplement: Citizens of the Imperium
Favorite Sector: Spinward marches
Favorite Race: Solamani
Favorite Empire: The Third Imperium
Years playing Traveller: 15 and counting

Thing that cracks me up: knife fighting monkeys.
 
Name: Michael Taylor
Age: 34
Country: New Zealand
Favorite Version of Traveller: CT, T20
Military Service: Too busy getting drunk at university
Favorite Supplement: Leviathan, High Guard
Favorite Sector: Trojan Reach
Favorite Race: Aslan - cats are nice.
Favorite Empire: The Third Imperium
Favorite World: Anywhere outside Imperial borders
Years playing Traveller: 21
 
Fav Trav Moment: Refereeing the catastrophic consequences of my militaristic players firing a volley of nuclear tipped missiles from their stolen Leviathan merchant cruiser into a developing TL-8 Amber zone world in the Trojan Reach and seeing a phalanx of angry Aslan and Imperial Navy vessels hunt them down and pound their stolen ship into pulp.
 
Oh, missed this thread earlier.
Here....

Name: Jeff Qualkenbush
Age: 43 (Aged)
Country: USA
Favorite Version of Traveller: MT with Mods
Military Service: Army 20 Yrs + (Now Retired)
Favorite Supplement: High Guard & Fighting Ships
Favorite Sector: Regina Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Humaniti & Vargr
Favorite Empire: Shattered Imperium using ideas from the "Wounded Colossus" campaign idea from Larson Whipsnade.
Favorite World: Terra (Caused a lot of trouble there)
Years playing Traveller: 25
 
Originally from Fife and now living in Kelso. I will confess that while live firing once with 40 Field my command post received the follwing adjustments.

OP "Drop 500, left 1000"
Me to my ack "whoa, that must of been out a bit"
BOOM!!
Op "Drop 100, left 1000"
Ack to me "Sh** Sir that's a 2 kay adjustment."
Me " I know, a bit close to the real world"
BOOM!!
OP "Drop 100, left 1000"
Ack "Sir if we adjust much futher left our first rounds were landing on the camp"
Me "I know, just be quiet and hope someone thinks it was another battery"
BOOM!!
OP "10 rounds fire for effect"
Me "Okay everyone, at end of mission we switch command posts and we change our underwear. Prayers of thanks for still having a job"

It was at this point I realised how much fun being a forward observor must be if you must call down orbital fire.
PS never dropped a shot short ever, but was known to send them a little too far.
 
Those were 155mm HE from an M109. There full size, no point in training with anything else. I've sent a few 105mm smoke shells out of area a few times as well. Not my fault, there were safety officers to stop that sort of thing.
 
Name: Christopher
Age: 40
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: MegaTraveller
Military Service: Yes. Air Defense Artillery - Army
Favorite Suppliment: Referee's Manual (I like to build starships)
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Humaniti
Favorite Empire: Imperium
 
Name: Bob Bodine
Age: 55 (yes, kiddies, I was born in the first half of the previous century!)
Country: Pittsfield, MA
Favorite version: Megatrav
Mil Service: USArmy,66-69, Americal Div
Fav Suppl: 'Whose the most beautiful woman in the world?'
Fav race: Humaniti
Fav Emoire: Roman
 
Hi SanDragon. Welcome to the forums from another newbie. They're a good crowd here and I hav't seen anything resembling a real flamewar yet. Except when they go political on your ass. Best just to duck an cover when that kicks off. Good to hear from a cloud puncher, what kit did you use.
 
Of COURSE we're a good crowd.... I'm in the crowd
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Nahh, he's right, matey. One of the main thing that brings me back is the quality of people on these boards...

Even if we DO have a large number of infantry....
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(stand by.... here it comes...... watch this space)
 
Most Aussies know a good thing when whe find it and tend to be less fickle with our atensions, not to menchion not mutch good stuff (RPG wise)findes its way down-under unless we order it on-line so apart from some SJG stuff (witch some people can't aprchate go figure!) where stuck whti the horror that is Rifts or D20.
 
I think that Traveller was well supported in the UK at the start (probably due to the Games Workshop licence and good coverage in White Dwarf) so it got the lion's share of attention from early gamers who wanted a Sci Fi RPG.

Traveller in Britain therefore got the main market share against Star Frontiers and Space Opera (always minor products in RPG shops). When next generation stuff came along Traveller was already the D&D of the Sci Fi RPGs and so people played the others in the same way that people played Rolemaster, RQ III etc: as deviations from the true religion, rather than as equal competitors.

Another point is that until TNE, and unlike many Sci Fi RPGs, Traveller dealt with issues that were not the usual Yanks in Space fare. The themes of many adventures dealth with issues that were not blatantly Yankie in tone (probably due to MWM's sociological training and LKW's interest in Ancient History). This meant that us English types could relate better to Traveller than to other games.

(By the way please don't take the above as criticism of America - its not meant to be).
 
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