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Thinking about the economics of fleet maintenance.

2715 Gvaerlik A838441-C Ni { 2 } (C37+1) [165G] - CK - 932

The only system with a class A starport that can build jump 3 ships. Soung is higher tech, but the lack of asteroid belts means fewer resources, so might contribute flagships. But the bulk of the fleet is built at Gvaerlik. Population only 90k. How many ship tons can it build a year?

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Me: I wonder what badass military ships are in The Spinward Marches Campaign.

Spinward Marches Campaign: Here’s the *world* class 3000 ton civilian transport!

😅

(I know, it’s also got a battle carrier and battle riders.)

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Sounds like Mongoose is going to do a Fifth Frontier War book, which is cool that it’ll make it accessible for a new generation of gamers. But I don’t buy Mongoose so it’s not for me.

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In prepping for the Fifth Frontier War, I found the MT Rebellion book to be quite helpful. While it is intended to denote the state of imperial forces as of a decade later, general organization and strength would not have changed.

I found a chart that is particularly useful, detailing the expected ground forces a planet should have.

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Thinking about fleet warfare in the Traveller universe again. An admiral wants to be certain they can defeat any defenses in a system they attack. A defending fleet is all fueled up and can choose to jump away if an overwhelming force jumps in. The attacking fleet takes at least a week to refuel and jump away, so unless they can fend off the attacker and secure fuel, they are stuck.

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Thinking about Vargr in the Fifth Frontier War.

There are two fleets that attack the imperium, but are they trying to conquer worlds or just raid them? How long can they loot a system before their holds are full and they need to turn back?

Although since the war lasts several years they certainly have time to raid and retreat multiple times.

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I spent way too much time this weekend making a spreadsheet of squadron counters for the Fifth Frontier War and assigning initial fleets. Still need to figure out what the Darrian and Aslan fleets look like.

Once I get all the info prepared I’ll probably start recruiting play by “email” admirals, but it’ll probably be a few weeks before I’m prepared.

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Keep thinking about how I could run a Fifth Frontier War simulation, but I would ideally want to find 24 players to want to command fleets in a months long play-by-email campaign.

Each admiral would be in command of the ships in their fleet, and have only delayed information about other systems. It would be epic, but also probably insane.

Oh, and one player would be the young suns neutral Aslan fleet.

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