Mongoose 2nd: High Guard

High Guard
Ship design and Combat
Author		Matthew Sprange
Publisher		Mongoose Publishing
Version		Mongoose 2nd
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Hardback) (PDF)
Language		English
Pages		224
Year Published		2016
Canonical		Yes
Available from		DriveThru RPG, Mongoose
Also See		Mongoose Traveller: High Guard
Product code		MGP40002
ISBN		978-1-908460-54-7

Mongoose 2nd: High Guard is a starship source book designed for Mongoose 2nd and produced by Mongoose Publishing.

This book is a major expansion to the Traveller roleplaying game, enabling you to design, build and fly spacecraft of all types found throughout the galaxy. You will find rules to modify existing ships, design high performance space superiority flyers, and construct the largest capital ships to travel the space lanes.

High Guard also presents new approaches to handle spacecraft operations, from engaging in vicious boarding actions to spacecraft security, from employing a range of warheads in missiles to accessing technologies seen in science fiction settings beyond the Third Imperium. Your warp drives await.

With more options and more powerful weapons, High Guard returns to space combat and provides a rules framework to use in epic space battles, from spiralling dogfights involving just a handful of lightweight fighters to the clash of heavily armed battleships across a front stretching through an entire star system.

Credits

Authors

Andrew James, Alan Welty, and Matthew Sprange

Assistant Naval Architect

Sam Wissa

Layout and Graphic Design

Amy Perrett, Will Chapman

Cover Illustration

Amy Perrett

Interior Illustrations

Amy Perrett, Sandrine Thirache

Playtesters

Simon Bell, Scotty Diamond, Shawn Driscoll, Alex Greene, William F. Hostman, Donavan Lambertus, Dale C McCoy Jr, Richard Ricker, John Watts, and the Digital Arc Systems Crew (Dina Novitskaya, Lori Golder, Noah Ternullo, Fred Golder)

Table of Contents

Mongoose 2nd: High Guard

Section	Page/s
Introduction	2
Ship Design	8
Weapons and Screens	23
Spacecraft Options	35
Primitive and Advanced spacecraft	48
Space Stations	50
The Ship's Computer	63
High Technology	66
Belt Mining	73
Creating Deck Plans	81
Fighters	84
Capital Ship Battles	86
Spacecraft of the Third Imperium	93

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Battleships
2. Belt Mining
3. Capital Ship
4. Capital Ship Battles
5. Deck Plans
6. Fighter
7. Galaxy
8. Missiles
9. Naval Architecture
10. Screens
11. Ship
12. Ship Equipment
13. Ship's Computer
14. Spacecraft
15. Space Lane
16. Space Stations
17. Star System
18. Technology
19. Third Imperium
20. Warheads
21. Warp Drives
22. Weapons

Library Data Entries (Automated)

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• Matthew Sprange. High Guard (Mongoose Publishing, 2016), 1.