Ship designs from "With the Lightnings" by David Drake Alan Peery (30 Nov 2020 09:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Ship designs from "With the Lightnings" by David Drake Jeff Zeitlin (30 Nov 2020 09:47 UTC)
Re: Agent of the Imperium redux Jim Catchpole (30 Nov 2020 13:13 UTC)
Re: [TML] Re: Agent of the Imperium redux Timothy Collinson (30 Nov 2020 14:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] Ship designs from "With the Lightnings" by David Drake Jeffrey Schwartz (30 Nov 2020 18:22 UTC)
Re: Ship designs from"With the Lightnings" by David Drake Charles Hensley (01 Dec 2020 19:43 UTC)

Re: [TML] Ship designs from "With the Lightnings" by David Drake Jeff Zeitlin 30 Nov 2020 09:47 UTC

The series is published by Baen, and can be obtained at
https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2050,1972?pageSize=30&filter=release_date&dir=ASC

The first book in the series, _With the Lightnings_, is available from the
Baen Free Library ("the first hit is free!").

(N.B. Baen is also the current publisher of Marc Miller's _Agent of the
Imperium_. https://www.baen.com/agent-of-the-imperium.html)

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:10:55 +0000, Alan Peery <xxxxxx@tractare.co.uk>
wrote:

>In his series featuring Lt Leary, David Drake spins a set of tales
>trying to take much of the feel of the age of sail into space.  There is
>no anti-gravity, the ships use reaction motors and land in water
>harbors, and jump is replaced by sailing through space.  Has anyone ever
>tried to build a ship using the various Traveller rulesets that mimics
>this?  I'm most intersted in the first two aspects, as the jump
>mechanism works well for structuring RPG sessions.
>
>If you've not read the series and like a bit of space opera, it's a good
>read.  Drake has described it as ""an SF version of the Aubrey/Maturin
>series" by Patrick O'Brian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCN_Series
>
>Alan
>
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