Traveller book 5 high guard capital ships

The introduction and character generation system pages 1 to 16 remains unchanged from the first edition. Book 5 high guard book was a classic traveller toolset. You get all the contents of the element cruisers box set, including all achieved stretch goals, along with all four traveller hardbacks core rulebook, high guard, central supply and vehicle handbook, plus all currently released adventures including the pirates of drinax megacampaign and the great rift box set. Traveller is a science fiction roleplaying game, first published in 1977 by game designers workshop.

A standard cargo robot costs 75000cr, and can be financed over 40 years for. You will find rules to modify existing ships, design high performance space superiority. Nov 01, 2004 high guard is completely different than the other systems. See more ideas about sci fi ships, space crafts and rpg. A copy of this licence can be obtained from mongoose publishing.

Classic traveller book 2 marc miller, frank chadwick, john harshman. High guard is completely different than the other systems. High guard is a mongoose publishing product it is a source book designed for mongoose traveller description specifications command the stars themselves with the most powerful fleets ever assembled dedicated to naval characters, whether actively serving on a frontline warship or semiretired on a rusting tramp freighter, high guard expands the possibilities of. Hyperdrives can be used in nonstandard traveller settings. The second rules supplement for the traveller roleplaying game, high guard allows you to command the most powerful space fleets ever assembled. Others can use it as a clue about what your games are like, and how close it mirrors the official traveller universe otu, without claiming priority over the otu itself. During the campaign, new home sold high technology components to its allies, so there are many hybrid tl designs. A synopsis of a civilian study that determine battleships are much more. High guard 1980 rules question when you have a weapn with a usp code higher than the target ships usp displacement code, it inflicts criticals based on the difference. It is a starship source book designed for new traveller. After the extensive contents section pages 2 to 14 and introduction page 15, the book.

Ships are designed in travellerhg 2ed other trav ship designs systems work too but hg is what most published ships have been done in. High guard is a mongoose publishing product it is a starship source book designed for new traveller description specifications this book is a major expansion to the traveller roleplaying game, enabling you to design, build and fly spacecraft of all types found throughout the galaxy. Hard to top and it might not have seen its equal in the 37 years since it came out. If any section of the ship is reduced to zero structure, the ship is destroyed. Introduction what follows is an overview of the high guard fleet as it exists today. Supplement 9 fighting ships modelled many classic traveller designs. The 225page pdf version of high guard itself, the onepage fleet. This is the ultimate traveller package absolutely everything. Traveller ct, classic traveller by gdw 1977 out of print b02 starships, book 2 spaceship rules based on triplantary b05 high guard, book 5 1980 directory of spaceships. Note that the title says the third imperium, implying traveller classic. High guard also presents new approaches to handle spacecraft operations, from engaging in vicious boarding actions to spacecraft security, from employing a range of warheads in. This is a work in progress and represents the referees side only so far. Uwp script a tsql script to generate all possible uwps as defined in t5. Worlds can be generated using the standard format for classic traveller.

Imperial and alien robot manufacturers, and how to play robots as player characters supplement a complete design. The featured ship was originally designed using squadron strike. As well, some world information is further streamlined as follows. Once across, boarding actions can be resolved using the personal combat rules or the quick boarding rules.

Making high guard statistics compatible with mgtraveller. Advanced character generation, advanced ship design, detailed yet streamlined space combat. So the iconic tigressclass battleship has a volume of 7 million cu. We all had a lot of fun but it didnt feel quite like. If the ships are merely adjacent, then the attackers must use thruster packs or small craft to cross over. Also note that by the end of the campaign, contact had been established with the imperium in the trojan reaches and ships were being refitted with obsolete tl 14 militarytl 15 civilian components bought from the imperium. You will find rules to modify existing ships, design high performance space superiority flyers, and construct the largest capital ships to travel the. Capital ship battles introduces a system separate to the one in the.

Ct book 2 19771982 and book 5 1980 followed by gurps traveller are the systems ive used the most. High guard, hardback rulebook for mongoose traveller 2nd. High guard, created for the interstellar naval adventurer and referee. This book really expands the characters that go through the naval character generation providing much more detail in character creation. A publication of the argosy league of the systems commonwealth edited by hohne the conciliator of sparborth iv. Use of the trademark on this page is not intended to infringe upon or devalue the trademark. Standard spacecraft and small craft can always carry one bay but the maximum number is limited by displacement, multiplied by the power plant rating number rounded down, but with a minimum of one. Hyperdrives can be used in nonstandard traveller settings see traveller main rulebook, page 109. Traveller deck plans traveller rpg, deck plans, starship. Power projection starship miniatures combat in the far future. It will include rules for capital ships, high guard conversion rules.

High guard in the way as a supplement, it extends the spacecraft design rules which includes massive 1 million ton capital ships. On large ships over 20,000 tons, the number of personnel in the command section should amount to 5 per 10,000 tons of ship. This book is a substantially improved and retypeset edition of high guard, traveller book 5, which originally appeared in 1979. High guard and pushes further into the organisation and building of capital ships, the equipment they use, and the locales they fight within. It has no movement system at all, you just have close, far, and really far. I was designing a couple of ships using mongoose traveller, and realized while looking at the weapon tables that aside from missiles there are no ballistic weapons available for ships like say railguns. Others can use it as a clue about what your games are like, and how close it mirrors the official traveller universe otu, without claiming priority over. In keeping with fast, furious, fun, advanced star system generation rules from book 5 high guard are discouraged. Included are basic, unclassified technical specifications for platforms, weapons. The fighting arms of the navy are the core of those organisations and adventure 3. The assets available to architects and limitations on design and construction, such as funds, required capabilities and pilots, are all present here. Traveller book 8, robots, enables referees and players to confidently integrate robots into traveller campaigns. Traveller and the traveller logo are trademarks owned by far future enterprises, inc.

Flicking through the book you see lots of ship plans and details, ship creation rule and options from small to capital ships, expanded space combat rules as well as the character creation. Power projection grew out of a fun demonstration game bits ran at gencon uk, with support from ground zero games. The reason there is no ship design in the current traveller. Introduction wherein the author attempts to create a comprehensive list of traveller classic products that included designs for starships and spacecraft and, for each product, give relevant information about the vessels. Not sure about gurps traveller, but in classic traveller trillion credit squadronhigh guard rules the tons figure is actually a volume measurement. High guard second edition provided a greatly expanded set of design rules for vastly larger vessels, and introduced the universal ship profile usp. Articles about the role of robots in the traveller universe, types and uses of robots, robot brains. Jon tuffley of gzg was really helpful about the whole thing, lending us miniatures and a geohex map, and making the odd suggestion. Many of the vessel descriptions found in products indicate that they are a book 2 design. Toss in the minigames of ship design and it was an instant classic. Deckplans basically a list of links leading to well traveller deckplans.

An excellent set of rules for naval characters and for ships of all sorts, including the first look at the massive capital ships of traveller. Unlike later versions of traveller megatraveller and later, armoring a ship was a yesno proposition, with no choice of materialyou simply allocated volume to armor according to a formula, applied the cost formula, and that was that. I looove designing ships yet, 90% of the time, adventures take place on the core. It will include rules for capital ships, high guard conversion rules, and campaign rules. While crossing, the attackers may be attacked with point defence weapons or by firing sand. Engineering section the ship needs one engineering crew member for each 100 tons of drives installed. Like other starships, capital ships have one hull point and one structure point per 50 tons of displacement. May 14, 2010 its traveller ship combat done in full thrust. Youtube a youtube channel specifically for traveller 5. Advanced rules for weapon bays on noncapital ships. Included are unboxing videos, how to videos, and other items of.

High guard is a book all about the navy and the spaceships that it uses. The demo was a fleet engagement between zhodani and imperial ships using a conversion for gzgs fun full thrust starship miniatures game. This book is a major expansion to the traveller roleplaying game, enabling you to. This book covers imperial naval characters and ships of the imperial navy in the traveller setting. Instead simply design the main world system and make up any secondary worlds as you see fit. You get all the contents of the element cruisers box set, including all achieved stretch goals, along with all four traveller hardbacks core rulebook, high guard, central supply and vehicle handbook, plus all currently released adventures including the pirates of drinax megacampaign and the great. Starships in traveller can be attacked by other ships when entering into a new system.

A capital ship is divided into between two and six sections. Hohnes fighting ships of the high guard 9781 cy almanac issue. Fighting ships of the shattered imperium game designers workshop, 1990, tbd. Miller designed traveller with help from frank chadwick, john harshman, and loren k. Star wars rpg star wars ships ship map sci fi rpg heroes book star wars spaceships edge of the empire spaceship interior star wars vehicles. This book is a substantially improved and retypeset edition of high guard, traveller book 5. However, as capital ships are so vast, these hull and structure points are divided into several groups, each group representing one section of the ship. High guard was one of the best splat books ever added to. A hyperspace drive uses no fuel but requires double the space of a jump drive that can travel the equivalent distance. The imtu code is a picture of how you run your traveller games. For backwards compatibility, i noticed that the hull codes deviate from classic traveller at around size a, so what if i wanted to describe a capital ship that is larger than 3400 tons which mongoose traveller tops out at, both size codes use letters of the alphabet and i dont want to confuse the mongoose size codes with the classic size codes, so i convert the mongoose letters to lower case. Sep 23, 2018 my initial thought was that this could be compared to the original classic traveller rules book 2.

One ton of displacement equals the volume of one tonne mass of liquid hydrogen about 14 cubic metres iirc. In 1980, games designer workshop published high guard, the fifth traveller book. Two different classic traveller space combat systems. This also helps makes sense of the minimum computer requirements for larger hulls that appear in book 5. This is a problem with most small ships in high guard if they have high agility. The differences are pretty stark the tl9 navys capital ship isnt a match for a. Traveller srd mongoose traveller high guard system.

Dedicated to naval characters, whether actively serving on a frontline warship or semiretired on a rusting tramp freighter, high guard expands the possibilities of space combat and ship design. Once you have created all those vessels, the next section, expanded space combat, enables you to test them against one another as it looks at every possible aspect of combat in the depths of interstellar. These attacks can damage any element of the ship including the computer system. Traveller third imperium vs earth alliance babylon 5. Power projection from bits combines traveller with the game full thrust.

This book is a major expansion to the traveller roleplaying game, enabling you to design, build and fly spacecraft of all types found throughout the galaxy. To date the only version of traveller that i know of and have not tried is t5. Mar 07, 2019 this is the ultimate traveller package absolutely everything. High guard was one of the best splat books ever added to a game, in my opinion. High guard is a 1980 roleplaying game supplement for. Trillion credit squadron allows players to construct, deploy and engage these fleets. High guard and pushes further into the organisation and building of capital ships, the equipment they use, and the locales they fight wi. High guard traveller mongoose publishing based on 1 rating our price.

For example a 60,000 ton tl 15 ship with power plant rating of 5 may have up to 300 bay weapons and a spinal mount. Perhaps there will be a future list named ships of the shattered imperium for. My initial thought was that this could be compared to the original classic traveller rules book 2. From that fantastic box cover giving us the mayday from free trader beowulf to the crisp aesthetic to the crunch. A few days ago i went to a local gaming store and bought a traveller book, having heard of it before in the ttrpg community and wanting to take a look at scifi. Ships are designed in traveller hg 2ed other trav ship designs systems work too but hg is what most published ships have been done in.

I am making up an excel spreadsheet so i can make up stats for ct high guard spaceships, the rules are sort. High guard and pushes further into the organization and building of capital ships, the equipment they use, and the locales they fight within. Once across, boarding actions can be resolved using the. In its 52 pages, it outlines character and skill generation for space naval personnel, and details on how to construct large starships of up to a million tons. It contains additions, corrections, and changes to the starship design and combat rules pages 17 to 52. Ships arrive and depart sporadically around the clock, so staff levels must be kept high enough to service any vessel at anytime, even though there may be long intervals during which no ships need to be loaded or unloaded.