Mayday

NOTE: This page presents information of the Traveller game Mayday, please see Signal GK for the Library entry for Mayday.

Mayday
Mayday, Bag, small box and large box
Author		Marc Miller
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		3rd
Format		Game (8.5x11 ziplock, 5.5x8.5 box, 9x12 box)
Language		English
Pages		TBD
Year Published		1978
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Product no 404, 601

Mayday is Game 1 for Classic Traveller.

Description (Specifications)

Basic two-player SF wargame of ship-to-ship space combat featuring movement (responding to both thrust and gravity), laser fire, missile fire, and ship-computer programming.

• Scenarios include The Grand Prix, The Attack, Piracy, Battle, and Smuggling.

Table of Contents

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Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

Intended as Game 1 for the "Traveller" RPG universe and uses a variant of the "Traveller" starship rules. One of GDW's Series 120 games, designed to be played in two hours or less. The original 1978 version won the Charles Roberts Award for the Best Science Fiction Game of the Year; other editions were published in 1980 and 1983.

Early Classic Traveller Game Modules

These games helped to set the setting of the very early Third Imperium in the early 1980's:

1. Asteroid (game)
2. Azhanti High Lightning
3. Dark Nebula (game)
4. Fifth Frontier War (game)
5. Imperium
6. Invasion Earth
7. Mayday
8. Snapshot
9. Striker

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
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• Marc Miller. Mayday (Game Designers Workshop, 1978), 1.