			    TRAVELLER Digest 113

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) 	by gdw.support@genie.geis.com
  2) Tidbits on Concussion	by Evyn.Gutierrez@highsierra.wmeonlin.sacbbx.com (Evyn Gutierrez)
  3) Hanseatic League	by AMNUSS@delphi.com

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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 94 05:06:00 UTC
From: gdw.support@genie.geis.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Message-ID: <199411260526.AA107867602@relay2.geis.com>

 traveller@mpgn.com
 
  From TRAVELLER Digest 90
 
  Michael Carter Llaneza
 
  > I'm starting an RC based campaign and am looking
  > Trailing for ground for adventures. I got the Old
  > Expanses sector data via ftp. I would like to know:
 
  > 1) How much of the Old Expanses sector has been
  > detailed by GDW/DGP/HIWG
 
  Path of Tears has most of the TNE material we've done. Only
 other thing I remember right off the top of my head is an article
 in Travellers' Digest 12 re Old Expanses, but there has been
 other stuff I'm sure.
 
  > 2) What is GDW planning on doing with Old Expanses
  > subsectors not covered in Path of Tears. I note that
  > both adventures in World Tamers are set in the
  > So Skire subsector.
 
  So Skire and Bascoj (aka Sitah) subsectors will show up in _Aliens of the Rim_
 
  Merrick Burkhardt,
 
  BL/BR comments and questions forwarded to Dave Nilsen
 
  Les Howie
  >> From: merrick@RT66.com (Merrick Burkhardt)
  >> As for BR, what do you folks do with the cards?
  >> We decided to just use dice because reshuffling
  >> all the time was a pain (and not reshuffling
  >> every draw changes the odds).
  >
  > We use the cards straight, and lets the odds fall
  > where they may. That is, sfter all, how you use
  > most card based results systems (including
  > Seastrike, for that matter)
 
  This is the designer's intention. As a side note, we (Frank
 Chadwick and I) used to play Seastrike long years ago...a fun
 game, expecially the random scenarios. It was really irritating
 when your SAMs were down...
 
  From TRAVELLER Digest 91
 
  Alvin Plummer,
  > I have no problem with your system of
  > generating the navy in PoT [...] However,
  > I would like to know your underlying
  > assumptions for the population modifiers.
 
  Question forwarded to Frank Chadwick, who came up with the original system.
 
  Allen Shock,
  > I do not, however, wish to see support for the
  > RC campaign stop completely.
  > I enjoy the materials that have been
  > released so far, and would like to see
  > them continue.
 
  They will
 
  From TRAVELLER Digest 95
  Hugh Foster
  and here, I thought I was the last Tom Lehrer fan left on Earth... Fight Fiercely Harvard!
  TRAVELLER Digest 96
  Leigh O'Neil
  > First does GDW have any future plans to develop the solomani
  > space?
 
  Eventually, but probably not in 1995.
 
  I am not at liberty to reveal GDW's current thinking on Pluto.
 
   TRAVELLER Digest 105
 
  Derek Smith
 
  > If you've ever read _Downbelow Station_ by C.J. Cherryh
  > (highly recommended), there is a drawing at the
  > beginning (done to the author's specifications) showing
  > the Battle Carrier Norway and its Riderships.
 
  I like CJ a lot. I had the privilege of serving with her on a
 joint GAMA/SFWA committee several years ago. I've met her brother
 (the SF artist) also.
 
  > (Guess where GDW got the idea for Battle Riders in the first
 > place).
 
 Ummmm....WWII aircraft carriers? Or WWII LSDs carrying LCMs and
 other smaller craft? Perhaps the numerous fighter/bomber recce
 combinations that the USAF tested out in the early 1950s? Marc
 was a naval freak because his father served in the USN during WWII,
 and the various aspects of space combat were a source of many
 interesting discussions between him, Frank, and myself during
 the design and development of High Guard.
 
  TRAVELLER Digest 108
 
  Derek Smith
  >I spewed forth:
  >>>If you've ever read _Downbelow Station_
 
  >>>by C.J. Cherryh (highly recommended), there is a drawing at the
  >>>beginning (done to the author's specifications) showing the Battle
  >>>Carrier Norway and its Riderships.  (Guess where GDW got the idea
  >>>for Battle Riders in the first place).
 
  > erich @ bush.cs.tamu.edu (Erich Schneider) replied (though
  >> not to the list, I don't think):
  >>_Downbelow Station_ is copyright 1981. "Battle rider" craft are
  >>defined in _Library Data A-M_, my copy of which is labeled "Copyright
  >>1980, 1981". I would not be surprised if they are mentioned in _High
  >>Guard_, published even earlier. I thus believe that the issue
 >> isn't as cut and dried as you seem to think.
  > I was unaware of the dates.  But I am schtikin' to my story.
  What story is that Derek? Do you have any proof or is it
 just an unfounded speculation on your part?
  Ted Kim
  > I would like to know more about the errata in Challenge 75.
  > Is it for lots of different T:TNE products or just FF&S?
  Just FF&S, converting 1st printing to 2nd Printing.
  > Is this different from the upgrade booklet in FF&S?
  Yes.
  > Is this errata available anywhere else (maybe by writing to GDW)?

  Yes.
   Loren K. Wiseman
          GDW,Inc.

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Date: 24 Nov 14 23:02:00 -0800
From: Evyn.Gutierrez@highsierra.wmeonlin.sacbbx.com (Evyn Gutierrez)
To: <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: Tidbits on Concussion
Message-ID: <7b5_9411260104@wmeonlin.sacbbx.com>


The question has been raised about the penatration of concussion.
First off concussion does not need a penatration vs. personal armor, 
personal armor is no protection. Good solid cover is the the second best 
protection.( The best is being somewhere else.)
The reasoning behind this is the human body is not a solid object, so as 
the concussion wave passes the body it causes truama over the entire 
exposed surface. In effect it is like being hit by a giant fist. 

On a sidenote, one of the best things to do in the case of being the in 
the near vicinty of an explosion, is to dive away from it. Thus lowering 
the overall crossection of exposure to shrapnel and concussion.

Evyn,  


 This copy of Freddie 1.2.5
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 13:47:14 -0500 (EST)
From: AMNUSS@delphi.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Hanseatic League
Message-ID: <01HJXR5GS3IW9ASLOR@delphi.com>

 Looking through my parents National Geographic's I found one that has an
 article about the Hanseatic League.
 It's the October 1994 issue (Vol. 186, No. 4).
 
 I believe the RC is loosly based on the HL & I thought everyone should know
 about the article.

 Alan

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