Power Projection: Fleet

Power Projection: Fleet
Starship Miniatures Combat in the Far Future
Author		Dom Mooney
Publisher		BITS
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book
Language		English
Pages		76
Year Published		2003
Canonical		0
Available from		RPGNow
ISBN 1-901228-32-0
Table of Contents
TBD

Power Projection: Fleet is a BITS product.

• It is a game book designed for Classic Traveller.

Description (Specifications)

Power Projection lets you run fast, exciting space battles and strategic conflicts between star-spanning empires. Power Projection combines the rich sic-fi universe of Marc Miller's Traveller and Ground Zero Games renowned Full Thrust space combat system.

This book includes:

• Ship combat statistics for a range of Traveller warships
• Simple but realistic vector-based movement
• Starship weaponry, from spinal mount meson guns and particle accelerators to lasers, energy weapons and missiles
• Defensive systems from sand casters to nuclear dampers, point defence weapons and black globe screens
• Damage control, boarding actions and psionics
• Interstellar Jump drives and inter-system logistics
• Orbital defences and planetary assaults
• Carried vessels, battle-riders and fighters
• Strategic warfare rules and tournaments
• A scenario generation engine
• Ship construction, maintenance and repair
• Converting Traveller ships to Power Projection

Also included are sheets of counters for everything from starships and planetary gravity wells to sand caster clouds, nuclear detonations, a turning circle and movement markers ...

...so you can start playing Power Projection immediately

Power Projection: Fleet focuses on capital ships and campaign based combat. In addition to the secondary weapons seen in Power Projection: Escort, spinal mounts, black globes, fighter squadrons and planetary defences are detailed. Larger engagements are supported with a dice based quick statistical resolution system for dice rolls. There is a scenario engine, which allows you create double blind missions (where neither side knows the other's objectives). There is a campaign system built around a melding of the Fifth Frontier War engine with Trillion Credit Squadron.There are 25 ship designs and 6 types of fighter squadron described covering both Imperial and Zhodani forces. Conversion rules are given to allow you to take any High Guard, MegaTraveller or Traveller T20 design and convert them to a Power Projection design. There are two pages of colour starship counters, plus two black and white counter pages.

Table of Contents

Power Projection: Fleet
Section	Page/s
Introduction	3
Fleets and Task Forces	8
Ship Status Diagrams	10
Game Turns	13
Movement	13
Combat	20
Jump Drive Operations	35
Planets	37
Scenario Engine	40
The Strategic Game	44
Ship Conversion	56
Appendix - Star System Data	60

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Battle Rider
2. Black Globe
3. Carried Vessel
4. Energy Weapon
5. Fifth Frontier War
6. Fighter
7. Jump Drive
8. Laser Weapon
9. Meson Gun
10. Missile
11. Nuclear Damper
12. Nuclear Weapon
13. Orbital Defence
14. Particle Accelerator
15. Planetary Assault
16. Planetary Gravity Well
17. Point Defense Weapon
18. Psionics
19. Sand Caster
20. Screen
21. Smallcraft
22. Spinal Mount
23. Strategic Warfare
24. Warship

Selected Ships

Imperial Navy (Third Imperium):

1. Atlantic class Heavy Cruiser
2. Azhanti High Lightning class Frontier Cruiser
3. Broadsword class Mercenary Cruiser
4. Chrysanthemum class Destroyer Escort
5. Empress Troyhune class Planetoid Monitor
6. Fer-de-lance class Destroyer Escort
7. Ghalalk class Armored Cruiser
8. Gionetti class Light Cruiser
9. Kinunir class Battle Cruiser
10. Kobe class Bulk Carrier
11. Kokirrak class Dreadnought
12. Midu Agashaam class Destroyer
13. Nolikian class Battle Rider
14. P. F. Sloan class Fleet Escort
15. Plankwell class Dreadnought
16. Skirmish class Light Carrier
17. Tigress class Dreadnought
18. [[Viper class System Defense Boat
19. Wind class Strike Carrier

Zhodani Navy (Zhodani Consulate):

1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. TBD
9. TBD
10. TBD
11. TBD
12. TBD
13. TBD
14. TBD

Selected Smallcraft

Imperial Navy (Third Imperium):

1. Heavy Fighter
2. TBD
3. Light Fighter
4. TBD
5. TBD

Zhodani Navy (Zhodani Consulate):

1. Heavy Fighter
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. Light Fighter
5. TBD

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

Power Projection grew out of a fun demonstration game BITS ran at Gencon UK, with support from Ground Zero Games. The demo was a fleet engagement between Zhodani and Imperial ships using a conversion for GZG's fun Full Thrust starship miniatures game. We all had a lot of fun but it didn't feel quite like Traveller. Over the next 5 years we tinkered with the game at conventions until, in 2000, we realised we had a potential winner on our hands (after several people asked could they buy the game)! After getting GZG's blessing, the next 3 years saw a lot of hard work to pull together the core rules together. We released the small-scale quick play Escort rules in 2002, and followed these up with the campaign and capital-ship orientated Fleet in 2003. The game movement is a vector based system, with simultaneous movement and initiative based fire. High Guard, Battle Rider, Mayday and Full Thrust were the significant design influences.

The games are completely standalone, and have everything you need except dice and a ruler/tape measure in them. Power Projection has its own support site at Powerprojection.net and we are currently working on Power Projection: Reinforcements, a fleet book for the game.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Author	Dominic Mooney
Editor	Andy Lilly
Front Cover	Jesse DeGraff
Illustrations	Paul Lesack
Counters and SSDs	Rob Prior, Jesse DeGraff, Dominic Mooney and Paul Lesack

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