On 14 May 2014, at 21:42, Knapp <magick.crow@gmail.com> wrote:




On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Timothy Collinson <timothy.collinson@port.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi there,

Does anyone have a physical boxed set of Star Cruiser that I could ask a few questions about please?

tc


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Thank you for that.  I suppose I could ask the questions here although I thought it was a bit arcane and uninteresting for everyone else!  (No prizes for spotting that I'm working on my bibliography of all Traveller things again.  Star Cruiser is, irritatingly, one of those things I don't actually own.) (yes, I know it's on the 2300AD cd-rom, I've got a lot of detail from that, but not quite everything I want to know).

I think there are 180 counters on one sheet – is that correct?

How many map sheets are there?  Boards or sheets? (Ie paper or heavy card.) What size (in inches)? (Width and height)

Are the ship status sheets single/doublesided sheets or are they in a booklet?  Are the blanks in the booklet too?  

From the PDF there seems to be two subtly different blank ship status sheets - are they simply front and back or something different?

Are there dice in the box or weren't they needed?  (Must confess I've not actually tried to sit and get to grips with the actual rules)

Am I right in assuming the errata (in the PDF) is a later addition?  Or were the errors known in time to include in the box?!

An Amazon entry mentions “combat charts” in the game?  What are they?  Are they blank ship status forms?


I think that covers it.  URL above interesting, but doesn't quite resolve the queries!



For anyone who is interested, although it's taken me some three years now to catch up with indexing all the Traveller material published since 2000 or so, I am well on the way to a third edition.  I've just passed the word count of the 2nd edition on just the new stuff, so it will be at least twice as large.  Maybe have it done by the end of the year.  Sooner if I quit being distracted by writing articles for Freelance/JTAS/etc :-)


tc