Re: Huscarle Cruiser From SubSector Fleets

Part of thread: Huscarle Cruiser From SubSector Fleets · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: Huscarle Cruiser From SubSector Fleets — DEREK STANLEY Re: Huscarle Cruiser From SubSector Fleets — dcndcn13
"Great Strephon's Shorts."

I like that. I wonder what other in-game Traveller oaths might exist.

> 120 missiles and a price in the GCr? Great Strephon's Shorts. I guess it
> works if subsector dukes in your TU can throw around that kind of change
> and need to mount major military efforts, but it seems a wee bit overkill
> for me. That's personal taste, though, some people like killing
> dragonflies with shotguns. ;)
>
> The only design decision that seems odd is this: the thing's armed like a
> junior battleship, so clearly you're taking it into hostile territory, but
> it has to land to unload. I'd have a lot less in the way of ship-to-ship
> weaponry and a lot more small craft in hangars, to give yourself the
> option to deploy the troops from orbit.
>
> Did you fit contra-gravity?
>
> -JTD
>
> "Neil, if you had any guts you'd yell 'Oh my God, what is that thing?!',
> scream, and then cut your mic."
>
> - Michael Collins on the first words to be spoken on the Moon