Subj:	TRAVELLER digest 374
Date:	95-08-10 17:07:46 EDT
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			    TRAVELLER Digest 374

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re:  Hard Times
	by Christopher_Griffen@dmcwave.com (Christopher Griffen)
  2) TL-8 Attack Helicopter
	by Lahtinen Antti Jussi <al76188@cs.tut.fi>
  3) CAT
	by tcgny!uunet.uu.net!tcgny!berghold@uunet.uu.net (Peter L. Berghold)
  4) Excel spreadsheets for trade
	by rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt)

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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:27:16 -0700
From: Christopher_Griffen@dmcwave.com (Christopher Griffen)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re:  Hard Times
Message-ID: <029366f0@MailXFER.DMCWAVE.COM>

     Answering Fred Kiesche's post about Hard Times:
     
     I can personally attest that it's an excellent adventure.  I conducted 
     it a few years back with the same crew of traders who I put through 
     Knightfall and it worked well as a continuation piece.  Knightfall 
     takes place during the early years of the Rebellion in Massilia Sector 
     and Hard Times sees the characters through the Black War and Collapse 
     years and right up to the end of the MegaTraveller Era in Diaspora 
     Sector.
     
     Hard Times, as I recall it, takes the adventurers through several 
     different types of mini-adventures including the following:
     
     -- Salvaging industrial materials at an abandoned warehouse in the 
     outback of a world.  Break out your Mission on Mithril book for this 
     one.  ATVs are the best mode of transportation.
     
     SPOILER ALERT (players, read no further!  Referees, go ahead):  Can 
     anyone say, "Aliens"?  A mysterious xenomorph awaits the players at 
     the warehouse.
     
     -- Rescuing the survivors of a backwater colony from a gang of 
     "rippers," pirates of the most vicious, bloodthirsty kind.
     
     -- A contract to provide security to a starport.  Sounds mundane, but 
     my players still remember this as the most memorable of all the 
     adventures in the book.
     
     -- An encounter with the increasingly xenophobic and violent 
     population of a planet while trying to obtain a serum for the planet's 
     medical facility.
     
     -- Acquisition and deployment of orbital defense satellites for the 
     Khavle Accordment, a Hard Times interstellar government that 
     apparently didn't have much success surviving into the New Era (all 
     the starports now have X's in 1201;  I take this as a pretty strong 
     indicator that my players' efforts in 1126 were for naught!)
     
     -- The final battle, to which all the adventures build.  The 
     adventurers and their ship accompany a group of starmercs into battle 
     against the antagonists of Hard Times, a band of crafty pirates.
     
     
     Hard Times has a lively group of supporting characters and villains 
     and works well as a large group of independent adventures that combine 
     to form a cohesive story.  It could easily be converted to TNE, and I 
     daresay I wish I had had Brilliant Lances for the final battle.  I 
     always found MegaTraveller's space combat rules to be completely 
     cryptic.
     
     --Chris

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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:36:19 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Lahtinen Antti Jussi <al76188@cs.tut.fi>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: TL-8 Attack Helicopter
Message-ID: <199508101336.QAA02239@korppi2.cs.tut.fi>

	This helicopter is designed by using the design options
	that were presented in TML-316. (volume based body, modern
	gas turbine, increased lift from rotor)
	Compared with current military helicopters, this helicopter 
	is quite small, light and has poor lifting capability.


	TL-8 LHX-95 Attack Helicopter (Light Helicopter eXperimental)

	This helicopter is a light two-man attack helicopter with 
	design features taken from RAH-66 Comanche and Ka-60 Hokum.
	The main features are CMR rotor configuration, retractable 
	missile bay, stabilized autocannon in tilting forward mount, 
	and stealth hull. However the helicopter loses its stealth 
	capability if there is ordinance in the two external 
	hardpoints. 

	General Data
	Displacement:	1 tons		Hull Armor:	6
	Length:		6 m		Volume:		14 m3
	Price:		Cr781,378	Target Size: 	Micro (Mc)
	Configuration:	Fast Subsonic	Tech Level:	8
	Mass:		6.71 tons empty
			9.46 tons with full internal load (no IWHPs)
			10 tons maximum take-off weight

	Engineering Data
	Power Plant:	1.257 MW TL-8 gas turbine
	Maximum Speed:	340 km/h (Calculated from real mathematical 
			model. In higher speeds the compressibility of 
			air and supersonic rotortips make flying
			unstabile)
			320 km/h (With full load and 0.5 m3 extra fuel,
			corresponds to the FFS maximum speed for 
			helicopters.)
	Cruising Speed:	240 km/h
	NOE Speed:	120 km/h
	Agility:	4
	Fuel Capacity:	1.508 m3 of HCD (+ 2x1.5 m3 in IWHP)
	Fuel Consum:	0.377 m3/hour (endurance of 4 hours)
	Maint:		2

	Electronics
	Computer:	TL-8 Model Flt Computer
	Commo:		300-km radio, 30-km laser communicator/designator
	Avionics:	TL-8 flight, terrain and navigation aids
	Sensors:	3-km radar (designation capable), 30-km HRT
			sensor, 250 m image intensifier viewer
	ECM/ECCM:	TL-8 stealth (+1 DiffMod vs. radar and HRT)
	Controls:	Computer linked (fly-by-wire)

	Armament
	Offensive:	3cm/97 fully stabilized autocannon, with optic 
			rangefinder and ballistic computer (-2 Diff 
			Mods), 1000 kg (1 m3) retractable missile bay,
			2x1500 kg IWHP (plumbed)
	Defensive:	3x10 decoys
	Ammunition:	500-round magazine for autocannon (full extra 
			magazine weights 339 kg)
			up to 1000 kg missiles in retractable bay
			2x1500 kg of ordinance or fuel in IWHPs

	Accommodations
	Life Support:	Basic
	Crew:		2 (pilot and weapons officer)
	Crew Accom:	2 open crewstations
	Passengers:	None
	Cargo:		0.62 m3 reserved for extra equipment

	Round		ROF	C/B	DamVal	PenVal	Magaz	SRange
	3cm APFSDSDU	16	-	36	15	500	600
	3cm HEAP	16	C1,B7	-	23C	500	600
	3cm KEAP	16	-	36	5	500	600

	Note: damage from the 3cm autocannon is calculated with the
	same formula as for guns.

-- 
        Antti Lahtinen    :     Justice is Only a Wish of a Weak
        al76188@cs.tut.fi :


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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:43:37 -0400
From: tcgny!uunet.uu.net!tcgny!berghold@uunet.uu.net (Peter L. Berghold)
To: Traveller Mailing List <uunet!MPGN.COM!traveller@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: CAT
Message-ID: <9508101543.AA25208@animals>

Hey gang....

Whatever happened to the Computer Aided Traveller (CAT) list?  I haven't
heard a peep in a long while....


   


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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 14:16:43 EDT
From: rhunt@med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt)
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Excel spreadsheets for trade
Message-ID: <9508101816.AA13018@dallas.med.unc.edu>


I made a couple of spreadsheets in Excel 4.0 for Windows.  One will take
the parameters of the planets at each end of the trip and calculate the
number of passengers and tons of frieght.  The other will calcualte the
price of cargo at a system and what you can get at the another system.

Should I uuencode and post to the list or place at an ftp site?  Has every-
one done this or would people like a copy?

Rick

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