			    TRAVELLER Digest 160

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) 	by gdw.support@genie.geis.com
  2) Vampire Fleets	by E.D.Quibell@bton.ac.uk (Ewan D Quibell)
  3) Meson pistols.	by cs5025@wlv.ac.uk (L.T.Bryant)
  4) re: Non-Combat RC Adventures	by Ted7@world.std.com (Mitchell K Schwartz)
  5) re: Elite Starmen	by Ted7@world.std.com (Mitchell K Schwartz)
  6) TRAVELLER digest 159	by Hugh Foster <100326.446@compuserve.com>

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 03:59:00 UTC
From: gdw.support@genie.geis.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Message-ID: <199501120429.AA296834958@relay2.geis.com>

 traveller@mpgn.com
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 131
 
 James Kundert <j.kundert@genie.geis.com>
 > Striker II is not on the 1995 release schedule because
 > it is (according to Loren via GEnie) now in GDW's
 > warehouse, to be shipped in 1994...
 
 True, although the marker counters gave us some tense moments,
 clean livin' prevailed, and the distributor shipments went off
 without a major hitch (other than our running out of shrink wrap
 halfway through the process).
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 132
 
 Alvin Plummer
 
 > Mr. Wiseman, do you plan to update your price's for the new year?
 
 Real Soon Now (tm)
 
 Liam McCauley
 
 > Are there any TNE figures other than starships available?
 
 RAFM has several sets of 25mm Traveller figs available,
 although I don't have a list readily available. Denizen makes
 some very sharp 25mm stuff also, including starship crew.
 
 From TML #133
 
 Merrick Burkhardt
 
 > Aside from season's greetings, I'd just like to say that
 > I appreciate the fact that you actually respond to
 > peoples' questions and comments the way you have been.
 
 I wish I could answer them all immediately, but there's this
 little thing called time that prevents me from doing everything
 at once. The other problem is that, not being omniscient, I
 don't know everything yet, and have to refer some questions to
 other (equally time-constrained) individuals.
 
 From TML #137
 
 Alvin Plummer
 
 > How about a sourcebook for the Free Traders?
 
 We've thought about it from time to time. Its on the "Things to
 Do" list, but rather far down, I'm afraid
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 150
 
 Alvin Plummer
 > THANKS LOREN!!!
 
 You're welcome, Alvin
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 151
 
 Liam_McCauley@qsp.co.uk
 
 > Big thanks to GDW for the FF&S errata. I wish other companies
 > were so willing to admit their mistakes and correct them.
 > Since I tend to buy Traveller products as soon as they
 > come out (impatient, moi?), I always seem to have the
 > first printing with the most errors.
 
 I feel the same way about computers...
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 152
 
 For whoever it was that asked about a month ago, the
 bibliography in the back of FF&S is where Dave got the laser
 performance figures from.
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 153
 
 Hans Rancke-Madsen
 
 I have passed the World Tamer's Handbook questions over to Dave and Frank.
 
 From TRAVELLER Digest 154
 
 Scott Kellogg
 
 > The story was that of the first robot war. A public event in
 > which engineers designed radio controlled robots for
 > the purpose of running (essentually) a robot demolition derby.
 Unless I'm misremembering, events such as this have been going
 on at various university engineering departments since I was in
 school (back when the world was young and God was a teenager: )
 The main difference seems to be that the stuff wasn't always
 radio-controlled in those days.
 
 > By my reading of FF&S rules, the TL 11 meson body
 > pistol that I posted when FF&S came out is quite a legal
 > design.
 
 Sorry, but yours is an incorrect reading, as we have gone into
 before (I won't bore people witha re-cap). You are, of course,
 free to use any house modifications to FF&S you wish in your games.
 
 Loren K. Wiseman
    GDW,Inc.

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 09:04:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: E.D.Quibell@bton.ac.uk (Ewan D Quibell)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Vampire Fleets
Message-ID: <9501120904.AA28251@diamond.bton.ac.uk>

G'day ...

I was reading rec.games.frp.marketplace, where I saw the Silver Fox Hobby
Company advertizing Vampire Fleets. I was just woundering if anyone has
picked it up at all, and what they think of it ?

Thanks

Ewan


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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:12:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: cs5025@wlv.ac.uk (L.T.Bryant)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Meson pistols.
Message-ID: <m0rSPKd-0003uYC@ccub.wlv.ac.uk>

Sorry  to bring this up as it has already been posted  but  could
the wanderful person ( fawn fawn grovell) who designed the  meson
pistol/rifles please post them ether to the list or me  privatly,
as  when i tryed to design one last night i hit several  problems
and sfter negotiating them id like to compare notes.
BTW how did you get past the max fir rate of 1/4?

	Thats all for now .
Lawrence Bryant
-- 
oh rose thou art sick
               the invisible worm that flys by night.....STEEL


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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:30:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Ted7@world.std.com (Mitchell K Schwartz)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM (Traveller:TNE mailing list)
Subject: re: Non-Combat RC Adventures
Message-ID: <199501121530.AA08943@world.std.com>

ROB PRIOR complains about the lack of published non-combat adventures for 
GDW's RC campaign.

Believe it or else, Rob, the fact that there are ANY hints of non-combat 
advnetures in the RC IS the relsult of about a year's worth of customer 
howling. What is now the RC was orignally solely "Space Vikings" rabid 
hungry wolves out to steal technology (that they couldn't make or 
maintain themselves) so they could "reclaim the stars" *for themselves*

Too many people said "but we don't want to play destructive raiders (at 
least not all the time)" and "that's it? You wreck the Imperium for this? 
Bye!"

To be fair, while not printed out as separate adventures, Path of Tears 
does suggest noncombat adventures down to the planet level (just not many 
of them). Constructing the adventure is left as an exercise for the GM 
(who needs to do something once in a while...).

						Ted7


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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:43:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Ted7@world.std.com (Mitchell K Schwartz)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM (Traveller:TNE mailing list)
Subject: re: Elite Starmen
Message-ID: <199501121543.AA17621@world.std.com>

About Elite Starmen....

Don't forget that many folk with that kind of ability can have a kinder, 
gentler, more fun life by taking those abilities and applying 
themselves for their own benefit in politics, business, etc, rather than 
the Imp or Regency Navy. Not to mention that some number of the nobility 
need to be taken out of the officer pool to minister family holdings or 
businesses, help run other parts of the Imperial (or regency) government, 
etc.

Also, If you are a noble parent with two sons, one brilliant, with good 
common sense, and one that's a bit of a louse, which one will you suggest 
goes off with the Navy for a decade or two?  If said Baron drops a note 
to the Captain-Dean of Admissions at the local imperial trainery, the 
Captain is likely to acquiesce and take the louse...

Also, I always rather had the feeling that the Navy represented one of 
the few means for the "great unwashed" to get a chance to break into 
higher social ranks, where brains and ability could at least compete with 
parentage and inheritance.

So, I'd say there is space in the Navy wardrooms for non-nobles, and that 
not all Navy officers resemble buck rogers (an untitled commoner, I believe).

					Ted7


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Date: 12 Jan 95 13:56:05 EST
From: Hugh Foster <100326.446@compuserve.com>
To: <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: TRAVELLER digest 159
Message-ID: <950112185604_100326.446_BHG41-3@CompuServe.COM>

>>ships over fifty years old.  If one looks at East Asia 
island chains, especially the Phillipines, you'll find lots 
of ferries of rather ancient vintage. <<

Yeah, and don't they ever sink! I accept your point though. 
The other thing that occurs to me is that as technology 
advances, the age of obselecnence <sp> decreases. So, ships 
last 100 years as ya say, and jets s-t-r-e-t-c-h to thirty. 
Computers are a classic example - just installed and 
they're out agin!

>>clip, usually in the same base. They sometimes built a 
new camp nearby when a site became to worn to use. <<

Good point, though the wear on a starbase might be more 
rapid. And we didn't suggest the base would have gone 'way 
away; "nearby" seems to fit the original suggestion. I 
mean, look at modern cities with Roman ruins nearby.

>>TNE needs to break the 'Twilight in Space' label). <<

Not a chance. <sound of flame-proof doors closing...g>

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