From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:16:42 -0500
Subject: For Oerjan and whomever else may be interested in weapons/vehicle design
BTRC's Guns Guns Guns! http://www.hyperbooks.com/catalog/10012.html BTRC's Vehicle Design System. http://www.hyperbooks.com/catalog/20024.html Both are books purchasable in PDF format online. BTRC itself http://www.btrc.net/ I own Guns Guns Guns! and found it to be reminiscent of Striker II or n versions of Fire Fusion and Steel as far as construction. It is complicated. But what it gives you is a high degree of integration for various weapon types into a sort of common framework, and with the vehicle builder I'd imagine you can then build a wide range of vehicles. The thing I liked about Striker II was the fact my tank could be built the way I envisioned it (to match a mini or to create my own image of one) and the stats fell out from the systems I installed and my hull design parameters and my tech level. Similarly, 3G let me design some neat weapons and provides conversions for many systems (and Traveller's Digest produced a 3G conversion chart for MegaTraveller). One option for more detailed DS2/SG2 conversions would be to build vehicles with a system like this with a conversion table.