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Revises and adapts 2300AD for the second edition of the Mongoose version of the Traveller ruleset. This is a boxed set with three books and a fold-out poster maps of human space, showing all connections and travel distances between stars within range of the stutterwarp drive.
Traveller has been featured in a few novels and at least two video games. Traveller is a tabletop game where characters journey through star systems, engaging in exploration, ground and space battles, and interstellar trading. The game is influenced by various literary works and emphasizes commerce, sociological stratification, and a mix of low ...
Bob McWilliams reviewed The Spinward Marches for White Dwarf #20, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "Perhaps the most interesting features are the political and historical snippets in the introduction and heading each set of subsector statistics; they help define the nature of the Imperium and its neighbours in the ...
A large map of "Known Space" shows the nine subsectors immediately surrounding Terra, which are detailed in the book. The subsector maps, and information for each world are also included. Detailed statistics are present for 26 starships, and deckplans for the Crockett class picket ship, the Heroic Person class far-trader, Lightning class ...
[5]: 18 Both space and planetary exploration employ relatively generalized maps to simplify the program and eliminate minor details. Space combat uses a simpler set of rules than those found in Traveller ' s original "Starship Combat" ruleset. [7]: 99–100
2300 AD (Traveller: 2300, version 2.0) [BOX SET: Adventurer's Guide, Director's Guide, Near Star Map, Playaids], by Marc Miller, Tim Brown, Lester Smith, and Frank Chadwick (1988) GDW [2]: 168 Star Cruiser [BOX SET: Naval Architect's Manual, Data Form Booklet, Rule and Scenario Booklet, 2 maps, Counter sheet (180 counters), 2 Combat charts], by ...
The book contains a large double-sided folded colour map that also serves as the book's cover. [2] In addition to information about star systems, the book also includes tables of various types of encounters, including space encounters, ships, urban encounters, planetary encounters, animal encounters, as well as rumors.
The game, designed by Frank Chadwick and Marc Miller, [5] is a combat game set in the Traveller universe, and was developed from Snapshot, a game of starship boarding and room-to-room fighting. [6] It depicts close-action combat between individuals on board the Azhanti High Lightning , a large military starship.