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J**N
Traveller, The RPG I Wish More Would Play
High Guard is an essential book if you want to have more ship plans and better naval engagement rules, including mass fleet combat. It gives you the tools needed to upgrade and modify your ship, or even just downright design one.It also gives you extra options for turrets, missile types, torpedoes and mines. There are some rules for kinetic interceptor cannons (PDC's) and there's a lot of lore on how the 3rd Imperium navy operates and how local planetary defenses operate. It's a fun book to have if your campaign uses the navy or even a mercenary navy. It's also vital if you want to do any ground based mass assaults as it gives the plans for troop carriers.It's a fun read.
M**L
Mongoose Publishing: New Traveller(MPNT): Highguard
Mongoose Publishing: New Traveller(MPNT): Highguard is the spaceship construction guide for MPNT. The text is easy to read and the art is fantastic, in this hardback book. Sadly the book screams for an index page and a ship construction sheet. I used over a dozen magnetic page markers in first third of this book, so I could quickly find an important section. The later two-thirds of the book is filled with 3D Deck Plans. A must-have book for this latest incarnation of Traveller.
A**E
Poor packaging
My book order showed up loose in a box with a single air bag. The bindings on all 3 were crushed at the tops and bottoms. The content of the books is great otherwise. Definitely buying direct from mongoose from now on.
K**N
Great for starship building.
Fantastic resource for players interested in more ship variety and specifications on how to take advantage of all the features of your ship. Nice hardback with great illustration.
D**A
Really good Addition
Pretty good book, shop arrangements are sound! I really like He new addition to the old books!The only Draw back ....No glossary
T**R
Credit where credit is due (and not due)
This expansion fleshes out the VERY abbreviated Starship construction, combat and piloting rules found in the core book. If your campaign often involves space combat and travel, the book is useful addition. The Traveller game system deserves credit, but if this review were only about the publishing and editing, it would be one or two stars. It is infuriating that Mongoose does not include indexes in its books, especially when subjects and rules are not always located intuitively. Binding is not meant to last and it is a rookie mistake to print reading matter on glossy paper. Yes, the color illustrations look better on gloss paper, but depending on light source, readers will find themselves holding book at odd distances and angles to avoid the glare when reading text.
S**Z
Not a bad product but some details are problematic.
Nicely bound with good graphics etc. I would like to see 2 changes. One is the order of construction. They have you buy a power unit to supply everything you bought and then bring out a bunch of items afterwards which necessitate the recalculation and resizing of the power unit. Just save it for last. the second is the lack of a ship construction sheet. I believe they mention the existence of one in the book but the page has nothing. It would be nice if they even offered one as a downloadable PDF but I have never seen one.
D**T
Great game
The only traveller splat book you really need.
S**E
Feedback
Product exactly as anticipatedDelivery-ATROCIOUS, no notification of missed delivery, abandoned in the open in back garden, despite ample cover bring available. Thankfully there’s no rain today
R**I
Costruisci la tua astronave ideale!
Questo bellissimo supplemento cartonato a colori espande le regole sulla costruzione e la gestione delle astronavi nel GdR Traveller, e l'ho trovato molto interessante. Credo sia davvero possibile costruire QUALUNQUE tipo di astronave con l'aiuto di questo libro (anche se, per i fanatici, l'editore ha fornito ulteriori opzioni in altri supplementi, come The Great Rift). In aggiunta, c'è perfino un capitolo dedicato allo sfruttamento minerario degli asteroidi e, per chi non ha tempo o voglia di 'far l'ingegnere', 100 pagine di astronavi già pronte, con statistiche e piani a colori.L'unico (grosso!) problema sta nel fatto che il manuale è stato pubblicato con troppa fretta, senza un'accurata revisione dei testi. Quasi tutte le statistiche delle astronavi precompilate hanno uno o più errori, ma ce ne potrebbero essere altri anche nelle regole stesse (l'opzione Stealth Jump a pagina 48, ad esempio, NON richiede due vantaggi). E siccome questo editore ha la pessima abitudine di non rilasciare liste di Errata, se volete essere sicuri di quello che state facendo, dovrete per forza andare a cercare informazioni specifiche nel forum utenti del sito internet di Mongoose Publishing. High Guard si merita comunque il voto massimo.
