On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Squadron Strike: Traveller is a Traveller wargame, not a role-playing game supplement, so that's not much of an objection. It's like saying that you won't buy Fifth Frontier War because you're unlikely to use it in your Traveller campaign. It may be true, but it is also irrelevant.

Irrelevant, in the strict sense. But only for the moment, since there's supposed to be an Adventure (e.g. RPG) scale rules supplement coming along fairly soon. The current Kickstarter even mentions that he's trying to come up with a way to let PC skill rolls influence the base SS:T rules. So I expect that the only significant difference between the Squadron and Adventure scale rules will be that PC ships are substantially weaker in most ways, when compared to real warships. Which is - of course - exactly as it should be.

Richard Aiken

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