http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/ Classic Traveller Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:17:31 GMT Ian Mooney http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2995 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2995 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 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:09:58 GMT Cam Kirmser http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2994 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2994 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 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:06:49 GMT Cam Kirmser http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2993 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2993 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 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:03:33 GMT http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2992 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2992 Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Classic-Traveller group. File : /Ship Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:38:55 GMT mithgiladan http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2991 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2991 ... 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 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:24:03 GMT Michael Taylor http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2990 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2990 ... Cool! I'd like to see this! _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:30:42 GMT Cam Kirmser http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2989 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2989 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 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:55:47 GMT Evyn MacDude http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2988 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2988 ... 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 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:52:11 GMT gypsycomet http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2987 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2987 ... 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 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:39:50 GMT Matt Stevens http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2986 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2986 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 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:32:01 GMT Matt Stevens http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2985 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2985 ... I'd take the view that the Imperium has no payroll tax for its Imperial staff (Army, Navy, Scouts, Bureaucracy, etc) or Imperial population living on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:45:04 GMT lugal_hdan http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2984 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2984 ... 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: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:09:42 GMT Jim Kundert http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2983 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2983 ...second try. I really dislike Yahoo's header bombs. ... The Imperium as a whole is a trade empire, and draws income from the profits made in interstellar Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:34:18 GMT Evyn MacDude http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2982 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2982 ... Ick.... ... Sure, it taxes it's member planets. ... Mostly that is not about personal taxes. ... -- Evyn [Non-text portions of this message have been Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:02:59 GMT Cam Kirmser http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2981 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/message/2981 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