On May 3, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

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> As I recall, in CT, the universal use of nuke dampers made 'coventional' missles more effective than 'nuclear' ones, at least in CT-HG, anyway.
> A hit on a magazine full of them could cause some big problems.
> CT-HG also incl a 'magazine explosion' in it's critical hit table, I believe...

Mainly because the primitive screwheads who wrote CT (indeed all of traveller...in TL 15 terms we're ALL 'primitive screwheads') are used to 'magazine hit' == 'bad things go boom'. instead of what it actually is which is 'uh oh! there went our offensive capability by N% where N = 1/number of magazines', which is kind of hard to fit on those tables :-)

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Bruce Johnson

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