Traveller Supplement 9: Fighting Ships

Traveller Supplement 9: Fighting Ships is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Tim Brown, with illustrations by Jennell Jaquays,[1][lower-alpha 1] for Traveller and published in 1981 by Game Designers' Workshop.

Supplement 9: Fighting Ships
DesignersTim Brown
PublishersGame Designers' Workshop
Publication1981
GenresScience-fiction
SystemsClassic Traveller

Contents

Fighting Ships presents 25 different ships that the Imperium uses,[2] ranging from a 20-ton gig to a 500,000-ton dreadnought.[1] The supplement uses the rules and combat systems from a previous supplement, High Guard. Each ship class is presented with game statistics, descriptions of its components, and background information.[2] Thirteen Traveller supplements were published.[3] A single collected volume was published by Far Future Enterprises in 2000.

Reception

In the December 1981 edition of The Space Gamer (Issue No. 46), William A. Barton gave a thumbs up, saying, "Fighting Ships is well worth adding to your Traveller collection."[2]

However, in the December 1981 edition of Dragon (Issue 56), although Tony Watson called the supplement "very interesting reading for those of us enamored with spaceships and all that goes with them", he questioned why players or referees would buy the book. "It is highly unlikely that any player character is going to acquire a ship of this great size and capability."[1]

See also

Notes
  1. Credited as Paul Jaquays.

References
  1. Watson, Tony (December 1981). "Fighting Ships". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (56): 66.
  2. Barton, William A. (December 1981). "Expanding Traveller". The Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games (46): 10.
  3. Miller, Marc (2010). Guide to Classic Traveller (1 ed.). USA: Far Futures.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.