Brilliant Lances

Brilliant Lances
Traveller Starship Combat
Author		Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Traveller The New Era
Edition		1st
Format		Game (Large)
Language		English
Pages		32
Year Published		1994
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Also See		Starship
ISBN 1-55878-152-8 Product No. 0304
Table of Contents
Introduction			2
Task Resolution			3
Sequence of play			4
Plotting and movement			5
Sensor lock			11
Communications			15
Fire and combat			17
Defense			20
Damage			21
Damage control			25
Miscellaneous Objects and Issues			27
Scenarios			30

Brilliant Lances is a Game Designers Workshop product.

• It is a game and source book designed for Traveller The New Era.
• It is a TNE era boxed starship combat game.

Description (Specifications)

"In space combat, you never see your opponent until it's all over, if even then. With acquisition and tracking ranges measured in tens of thousands of kilometers, to human eyes the people that are trying to kill you are not even a speck. But they can hurt you, even though you can't see them. Precise laser arrays and big particle accelerators, honed by centuries of engineering, can reach out without warning to slit your hull like the belly of a fish, spilling life -- oxygen, heat, and fuel -- into the hard vacuum.

That's why space combat is a game of cat-and-mouse. Keep yourself wrapped in the mantle of space-cold, dark, silent. Keep your thrust burns to minimum-they blaze like miniature suns for all to detect. Rig your passive sensors to greedily absorb data, but remain quiet yourself-give nothing away. Keep your weapons ready, in case... There! A faint trace of mid-wavelength infrared betrays a maneuver drive. Bring up the LIDAR dishes while the big passive array builds up a targeting solution. The moments seam endless while every crew member shares the same thought: 'Have they seen us?' Is the unseen enemy at this moment doing the same thing you are?

You might never know the answer. If you beat him, maybe you'll find out. But what if you hadn't seen him first? Some questions must remain unanswered when death, unbidden, comes scorching toward you as silent, brilliant lances."

Game Contents

Brilliant Lances includes:

Game Features

• Vector-based movement
• Detailed hit location and damage resolution
• Lasers, particle accelerators, meson guns, detonation laser missiles, and the systems that defend against them.
• Extensive ship ratings, including New Era and pre-Collapse warships, from the swift Rampart fighter up to large naval and merchant vessels
• Complete starship design rules, usable both with this game and with Traveller: The New Era roleplaying game

Contents

• x1 32-page "Rules of Play"
• x1 48-page Technical Booklet
• x3 play maps
• x2 Player Aids Cards
• x1 Pad: Missile and Drone Log
• x2 sheets of counters, x1 large sheet, x1 small; x183 counters total
• Additions, Clarifications, and Corrections sheet, dated August 9, 1993.

Table of Contents

Rules of Play

Section / Article	Page/s
Introduction and Components	2
General Course of Play	3
Task Resolution	3
Sequence of Play	4
Plotting and Movement	5
Spacecraft Control Panels and Movement Logs	8
Using the Missile and Drone Log Sheet	11
Sensor Lock	11
Communicators	15
Facing	16
Fire and Combat	17
Defenses	20
Damage	21
Damage Control	25
Boarding Actions	26
Surprise	26
Miscellaneous Objects and Issues	27
Q & A	29
Tournaments	29
Integration with Traveller: The New Era	29
Scenarios	30

Technical Booklet

Section / Article	Page/s
Designing Spacecraft	1
Starship Data Profiles (33 vessels)	19

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Communicator
2. Electronics
3. Naval Weapon
4. Ship Equipment
5. Ship Sensor Suite

Selected Ship Equipment

1. TBD

Selected Ships

1. Bastien class Subsidized Liner
2. Broadsword class Mercenary Cruiser
3. Chrysanthemum class Destroyer Escort
4. Covenanter class Scout Cruiser
5. Donosev class Survey Ship
6. Eakhau class Aslan Trader
7. Fiery class Close Escort
8. Gazelle class Close Escort
9. Jayhawk class Far Trader
10. Khtukhao class Aslan Clan Transport
11. Kinunir class Colonial Cruiser
12. Lord Baltimore class Yacht
13. Midu Agashaam class Destroyer
14. Moraine class Free Trader
15. Petty class Subsidized Merchant
16. Reformation Coalition Aurora class Clipper
17. Shukugan class System Defense Boat
18. Type L class Laboratory Ship
19. Type S class Scout/Courier
20. Type T class Patrol Ship
21. Ueknou class Vargr Corsair
22. Valor class Missile Corvette
23. Vargr Trader
24. Zhodani Chatl class Leader Scout
25. Zhodani Ninz class Scout
26. Zhodani Vlezhdatl class Strike Cruiser
27. Zhodani Zhdits class Destroyer Escort

Selected Smallcraft

1. Armed Gig
2. Launch
3. Modular Cutter
4. Rampart class Fighter
5. Ship's Boat
6. Shuttle

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Design	Frank Chadwick and Dave Nilsen
Artwork and Design	Kirk Wescom and Rob Lazzaretti

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