Thread: Wondering

How close you guys at GDW where to publishing the Regency Starship book?
I was looking forward to it. Seeing some non-patched up high tech ships. Any chance anything from it will see the light of day?

I was partway through it, TL 15 versions of the common merchant ships,
Fer-de-Lance and Chrysanthemum DEs. I had gotten far enough on the DEs to
recognize that there would be logical sub-classes based on battery
organization and MFDs, and at least partly designed them. I think I would
have included the Kinunirs (updated and refitted for Regency service) and
certainly the 3000-ton Destroyer, maybe the old P.F. Sloan. I had not
finished the list of ships it would include. I think I hoped to maybe get
up as high as some of the old Book 9 ships, or at least the ones that were
in Battle Rider. New turret "cans" as well.

The original plan was for me to finish writing RSG, but then we had no one
left to get RCVG out the door, so instead of finishing design on RSG, I
finished development/editing/typesetting of RCVG. I took RSG with me to
Kentucky with the initial idea that it could be finished, but that idea
got abandoned early on.

What do you mean by "light of day?" Published officially by someone? That
doesn't seem realistic. There was nothing remotely camera ready. I'd have
to dig it out, finish it up, write it up, it would have to be typeset, and
that would be no small effort. And no one is supporting the TNE rules
anyway.

> How close you guys at GDW where to publishing the Regency Starship book?
> I was looking forward to it. Seeing some non-patched up high tech ships.
> Any chance anything from it will see the light of day?

I was just wondering is all. Would have been cool to see the official Regency
versions of the book 9 heavies.
Trust me Dave if I ever win the Lotto I will hire you to do a few projects for
me,lol

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Sent: Sun, June 24, 2012 9:54:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Wondering

I was partway through it, TL 15 versions of the common merchant ships,
Fer-de-Lance and Chrysanthemum DEs. I had gotten far enough on the DEs to
recognize that there would be logical sub-classes based on battery
organization and MFDs, and at least partly designed them. I think I would
have included the Kinunirs (updated and refitted for Regency service) and
certainly the 3000-ton Destroyer, maybe the old P.F. Sloan. I had not
finished the list of ships it would include. I think I hoped to maybe get
up as high as some of the old Book 9 ships, or at least the ones that were
in Battle Rider. New turret "cans" as well.

The original plan was for me to finish writing RSG, but then we had no one
left to get RCVG out the door, so instead of finishing design on RSG, I
finished development/editing/typesetting of RCVG. I took RSG with me to
Kentucky with the initial idea that it could be finished, but that idea
got abandoned early on.

What do you mean by "light of day?" Published officially by someone? That
doesn't seem realistic. There was nothing remotely camera ready. I'd have
to dig it out, finish it up, write it up, it would have to be typeset, and
that would be no small effort. And no one is supporting the TNE rules
anyway.

> How close you guys at GDW where to publishing the Regency Starship book?
> I was looking forward to it. Seeing some non-patched up high tech ships.
> Any chance anything from it will see the light of day?

I'm your guy!

Should I hang onto my day job in the meantime?

> I was just wondering is all. Would have been cool to see the official
> Regency
> versions of the book 9 heavies.
> Trust me Dave if I ever win the Lotto I will hire you to do a few
> projects for
> me,lol

They could more easily be posted up on the interwebs somewhere.
I'm sure this list would enjoy it. I would donate some Web space
for it, too.


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from my T989

wrote:


I was partway through it, TL 15 versions of the common merchant
ships,
Fer-de-Lance and Chrysanthemum DEs. I had gotten far enough on
the DEs to
recognize that there would be logical sub-classes based on
battery
organization and MFDs, and at least partly designed them. I think
I would
have included the Kinunirs (updated and refitted for Regency
service) and
certainly the 3000-ton Destroyer, maybe the old P.F. Sloan. I had
not
finished the list of ships it would include. I think I hoped to
maybe get
up as high as some of the old Book 9 ships, or at least the ones
that were
in Battle Rider. New turret "cans" as well.

The original plan was for me to finish writing RSG, but then we
had no one
left to get RCVG out the door, so instead of finishing design on
RSG, I
finished development/editing/typesetting of RCVG. I took RSG with
me to
Kentucky with the initial idea that it could be finished, but
that idea
got abandoned early on.

What do you mean by "light of day?" Published officially by
someone? That
doesn't seem realistic. There was nothing remotely camera ready.
I'd have
to dig it out, finish it up, write it up, it would have to be
typeset, and
that would be no small effort. And no one is supporting the TNE
rules
anyway.

> How close you guys at GDW where to publishing the Regency
Starship book?
> I was looking forward to it. Seeing some non-patched up high
tech ships.
> Any chance anything from it will see the light of day?

I would gladly chip in when my future million dollar lottery ticket appears. =0)

But seriously, TNE got enough support write some sort of a sourcebook to bring the campaign further. There might even be a decent number of fans that would like to see updates to the rules. At the moment I am tinkering with the high energy weapon design to allow for handgun sized plasma and fusion pistols. Currently, the design process falls apart at the lower end of the scale as the recoil turns out to be a kilelr for a handgun sized weapon (eccess of 20+).

I would like to make something like the blaster from Star Wars. it should be possible to have something like that at TL 14+ at least. A weapon that bridges the laser pistol and the gauss pistol.

--
Roger Malmstein
www.travellerfreepo

We had one in the main rulebook? That you can't duplicate in FF&S?

CRAP!

Thank you for pointing that out. I did not realize that WE had created the
problem ourselves, and I apologize for not understanding that in my
response.

Um, I don't know right now. Maybe I can get back to you?

Dave

> My main reason for trying to make a plasma/fusion pistol is the adventure
> in the main TNE rulebook “once and future Emperor”.
> So canonwise it is possible, but probably as a special design.
>
> The Star Wars analogy came to me later when I was watching the second
> movie where they try to escape from the cloud city. The blasters made
> visible damage to the walls.
>
> From my early work on ssmall size high energy weapons, they seem to do a
> little more damage than equally sized (massed) Gauss pistol, but the range
> is lower. A laser pistol has far better range and damage, but no
> penetration. My approach to the matter is more practical. Sometimes you
> want something that bites, but the range doesn’t matter as it may be
> real close quarters, like starship corridors. And it can punch a hole in
> most vacc suits and some combat armors. Still the penetration will be low
> enough to not make a hole in the hull. Damage to interior fixtures may be
> possible though.
>
>
> --
> Roger Malmstein
> www.travellerfreepo