Battlerider Mini Suggestions

The traveller 2300 line has some excellent, reasonably priced minis.
there are Patrol Cruisers (2/Blister) that are extraordinary, sleek,
and menacing that look mass 20. (I use mine for mass 22 Pursuit Cruisers
(light)) there is also a corollary set of "gunship" types that are 5 to a
blister that I use for mass 12 "strikeboats".

Hello Everyone: After my long expected B5 game next week, we are going back to
the good old "normal" Full Thrust. I finally got to sit down with my playgroup
and help work out some house rules (nothing written down yet)
but one of the rulings we have made are that their can be non-FTL ships
only if they are brought in by a tender. As I plan my fleet for the next
normal FT game (I always get my fleets put together a couple of weeks in
advance.), I've decided to put this ruling to good use and I'm including some
"battleriders" into my fleet (MASS 20, Thrust 6, 3 A batts, 1 pluse torp, 1
PDAF, level 1
armor).   After looking through my collection of minis, I can't find
anything that really satisfies my needs. This means one thing: BUY MORE MINIS.
However, I'm not quite sure what to get. Any suggestions?

Later,

Excerpts from FT: 18-Mar-97 Re: Battlerider Mini Sugges.. by "Mike
Wikan"@n-space.com
> The traveller 2300 line has some excellent, reasonably priced minis.

Actually, I think you're talking about the Traveller: The New Era ship
line; no minis were ever produced for 2300AD/Trav:2300, more's the pity.
 (I'd *love* a mini of a Kennedy-class Missile Cruiser!)

However, the T:NE ships *are* quite nice... I think I've got a set of your
"strikeboats" (flat ships, two big guns on the wingtips?) which I
use for FTL-less SDBs... I think I've got 'em with two B-batts and a
couple submunitions (see those four little depressions in the leading
wing edges?  Those are the outlet ports.... ^_^ )

I also like the... Aslan? patrol ship, or something like that. It looks a
*lot* like your stereotypical anime ship, with an oviod head that has
a depression in it -- torp launcher? -- and what appear to be a whole
lot of missiles in the front of the engine pod... I'm using those as a
scatterpacks, too. ^_^

Greetings all, My answer to Mark's question is the RAFM Traveller starship
line. I bought an Aurora class clipper out of the bargain bin at my local
hobby store yesterday. It is an engine module with a long spine connecting to
a bridge module. I think it would make a perfect SDB or battlerider tender. I
plan to use it with my Traveller scoutship mini's that I use for 18 mass
SDB's.

John Kinder Jkinder@worldnet.att.net

"Never wish an infantryman a good day" Charles Schultz

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> From: <Mark Andrew Siefert> <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu>

> MINIS. However, I'm not quite sure what to get. Any suggestions?