nope - all I had was the three little black books, and a friend had Mercenary
and High Guard - grew up in a small town in northern BC and this stuff was not
easy to get
Ian
> Ian... did you ever see the system in Starter Traveller? It basically uses the
range band system used in Personal Combat for Space Combat.
>
I suppose it was my D&D background but I always used a hex grid for space combat. Just to maintain a little bit of parity, all movement had to be submitted at...
nope - all I had was the three little black books, and a friend had Mercenary and High Guard - grew up in a small town in northern BC and this stuff was not...
For quick resolution, I just used the system in Imperium for space combat. It had just three ranges, Close, Long and Breaking off. Combat started at Long...
This is similar to Triplanetary, Mayday and the basic Traveller system, except you have a 360° range of direction change. If using a hex grid, the vector...
... DP9's "Jovian Chronicles" game used this system, and it works very well. (And is fun to play, to boot.) In their version, each ship gets two counters:...
I've used that system somewhere else, it flows easily once you start using it and is very easy to use. No calculations, just a tape measure marked to your...
Matt Stevens
Matt@...
Jun 19, 2009 9:39 pm
... Very similar to Mayday, which uses three counters. Two as used above, and the third as the predictor, set at the end of your meovement phase in the hex...
... That reminds me I need to acquire some more china markers.... I have a 40' x 70' glass covered table, which I am going to teach the boy vector combat on...
That's how MayDay works, if I recall right; using counters. Triplanetary used a hex sheet with half-inch hexes and an acetate sheet to lay over it. You used...
... Cool! I'd like to see this! _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. ...
... Ummm, that only works so long as no changes are made. Granted, you can reduce the number of hexes needed or increase them if you are decelerating or...
OK, I just uploaded an image showing four turns using the Triplanetary - also Mayday - method of doing vector maneuvering on a hex grid with out needing any...
Wouldn't ya know it? I made a mistake. In the Turn 1 description, change, "so the blue counter is placed the same 1 hex NE and 3 hexes NE from the white...
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