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I've often wondered why there wasn't more mention of 'older' designs like that Escort design that dated back over a century.

After all, the IN Depots had been working overtime for years & years getting all their mothballed ships back into service.

I figure there must've been a lot of them as the TL max during the SolRimWar was 14 which means that the entire IN turned over w/ new TL15 ships pushing TL14's into the Colonial Sqdns, which then pushed the TL13's into the Depots.

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Subject: Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pirates of Drinax.

I've been re-listening to the Miskatonic University Podcast episode I linked to and I strongly recommend that you listen to what the interviewee has to say after 01:10:00 about including details early on in a sandbox that act as precursors to later material. As good example as any of this can be found in "The Game of Sun and Shadow" scenario where it is noted that the commander of the 198th P Flotilla arranged for a fuel depot for his force to be added to one system. That's something that might become known to the characters well before the scenario starts.

Similarly the things Imperial spy's are looking for might start changing before the scenario starts, something else that characters might notice.

Graham

On Friday, 18 May 2018, 5:02:21 pm AWST, Graham Donald (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

You can also obtain copies of JTAS and Challenge magazine through DriveThruRPG. Just to quickly expand on the comments I made earlier about the MegaTraveller article from Issue 60 'Ships of the Black War'.

These are the classes that are explicitly noted in the article as being in service with the Imperial Navy by the Fifth Frontier War (1107 - 1110).

1. Lance Class Fighter (IDP Standard design by 1102)

2. Shambalator Class Escort (In service during Fifth Frontier War.)

3. Mosquito Class Escort (In service during the Fifth Frontier War.)

4. Thibeault Class Destroyer (Entering service just before the Fifth Frontier War.)

5. Iolair Class Cruiser (Entered service in 1102.)

6. Derda Kiirgasshu Class Escort (Stated in text that the basic design dates back to the Solomani Rim War.)

A special case is the Yataghan Class Frigate which if my reading of the text is correct started development in 1090 and entered service in 1116, so the possibility of prototypes being sent to Frontier regions for testing/combat evaluation is a definite possibility.

I'd also like to mention a Call of Cthulhu related podcast episode from 2013 which is built around an interview with a writer called Brett Kramer and in the course of that interview he discusses his ideas on how to run sandbox type campaigns, which could be useful.

http://media.blubrry.com/mup/s/archive.org/download/MiskatonicUniversityPodcastEpisode037/MUP_037_Graveyards_Turnpikes_and_Lovecraft_Country.mp3

Graham

On Friday, 18 May 2018, 1:32:31 pm AWST, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

Where is this available for purchase?

Kurt Feltenberger

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