Re: Naval Scout/Couriers Re: [TML] Why do those big ships carry so many fighters? Freelance Traveller 10 Oct 2014 19:13 UTC
On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:35:13 +0000, Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote: >On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Ian Whitchurch <ian.whitchurch@gmail.com> wrote: >> Y'know, a jump 4 ship with jump 2 of fuel dont work too well. >> >> Its times like these I hate HGS :) >Drop tanks, lots and lots of drop tanks :-) Y'know, I always thought drop tanks were a bit underused in Traveller, given what seemed to be the economics. I can think of several issues that might account for this - most of which likely /wouldn't/ be issues for military usage, in the sense that "Dammit, we need the damn drop tanks; do what you have to". For civilian use, though, I think I pretty well summarize the issues in http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/tss/tss3.html - do I miss any glaring ones? -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource editor@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2014. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: CyberNET Web Hosting (http://www.cyberwebhosting.net) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)