Regency Combat Vehicle Guide

Regency Combat Vehicle Guide
Regency Manual 2
Author		Dave Nilsen
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Traveller The New Era
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Softback) (PDF)
Language		English
Pages		47
Year Published		1995
Canonical		Yes
Available from		DriveThru RPG
ISBN 1-55878-197-8 Product no. 320

The Regency Combat Vehicle Guide is a Game Designers Workshop product.

• It is a source book written for Traveller The New Era.

Description (Specifications)

Sword and Shield: For centuries, the mighty Third Imperium was defended by the most powerful, sophisticated fighting vehicles ever created by humanity. These vehicles of the Imperial Army and Marines provided security and reassurance as humaniti expanded to bring life to the stars, and defended them when those stars instead returned death. The Third Imperium did not win all of its wars, but it did grow to become the largest interstellar society ever known, through the ingenuity of its explorers and builders, and the courage of its soldiers.

And then, tragically, the people of the Imperium turned these most powerful weapons onto each other, destroying all that they had together built over a millennium of progress. When the irresistible force of Imperial attack met the immovable object of Imperial defense, the shock rocked the galaxy, and all that this great society had once been, all that it still had promised, all was gone.

Except for one last spark of hope.

The Regency: All was gone of the Imperium except for one isolated outpost, a frontier backwater called 'The Marches,' barely one-tenth the size of the Imperium. Facing their destruction, these people resolved to carry on the promise of the dead Imperium and preserve its heritage for the future.

Here, in the new Regency, Imperial armed forces did not fight each other, because humanity, finally aware of its fragility, faced the darkness around it with unity, and the might of the former Imperial armed forces rallied to the banner of the Regency. Once again, the most powerful destructive forces of humanity were pledged to its protection, not its destruction.

Now, for the first time in the history of Traveller, a single book, the Regency Combat Vehicle Guide, presents the primary combat vehicles of the Regency's "Thunderbolt", its planetary armed forces and its two main branches: the 'Sword" of the Regency Marines and the "Shield" of the Army.

The Sword, or more properly, the cutlass of the highly trained Marine assault forces is wielded by pure TL-15 forces equipped with such vehicles as the legendary Imperial Marine Grav APC, Imperial Marine Fire Support APC, Imperial Marine Assault Gun, the Norris Battle Tank, and the Imperial Meson Artillery Vehicle.

The Shield: The Army's forces provide the major mass of Regency military power, and are expressed by such vehicles as the TL-15 Imperial APC and its Fire Support, Command, and Fire Direction Center variants, the TL-15 Heavy Grav Tank, the TL-14 Trepida grav tank family, and a variety of support units, including the Imperial Artillery Vehicles, Point Defense APCs, Nuclear Damper Carriers, Grav Sled, and Imperial Recovery Vehicle."

Wield the Thunderbolt: If you've been a Traveller military fanatic for years, locked in your basement with Striker while your family desperately bangs on the door, or if you are a relative newcomer, locked in your basement with Striker II, this is the book you have been waiting for. Even if you're not a miniatures player, but simply like to let your mind soar through the future with Traveller's carefully detailed and visualized high-tech military forces, the Regency Combat Vehicle Guide provides extensive hardware detail ready for use in your 'Traveller' campaign, and plenty of grist for your unbounded imagination.

• 32 TL-14 and 15 combat vehicles and variants in all, with 22 illustrations by Kirk Wescom. Traveller's premier technology illustrator.
• Details of 40 Regency Marine and 19 Army units with their locations and duties.
• each vehicle entry discusses the Imperial and Regency military doctrine that made it what it is, and gives insight into the nature and principles of TL-15 combat operations.

Table of Contents

Regency Combat Vehicle Guide
Section / Article	Page/s
Introduction	2
Regency Planetary Forces	4
Regency Combat Vehicles	4
Type-Standardized Imperial/Regency High-Energy Weapons	5
Grav Tanks (7 models and variants)	6
Grav APCs (13 models and variants)	14
Point Defence and Nuclear Dampers (3 models)	30
Artillery and specialist Air-rafts (9 models and variants)	34
Regency Military Units and Deployments	46

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Grav APC
2. Nuclear Damper
3. Point Defense

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

It is a TNE era background book detailing vehicles used during the Milieu 1190.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Design and Development	David Nilsen
Cover	Julie Callahan
Interior Art	Kirk Wescom

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