As many of you know I am a huge fan of Book 4 Highguard and IMPERIUM / Dark Nebula, and I guess I finally managed to find a way how to express ANY Traveller ship from any system in Highguard as well as in IMPERIUM terms, but look for yourself. 

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I did quite a bit of work on this app since the last update. The database has now over 140 ships including some from CLEMENT SECTOR converted with the new external data sheet for conversion of ships designed with Mongoose or Cepheus rules, and the new IMPERIUM conversion for huge battles.

Just enter the numbers into the data sheet and answer the question in the first line "Use this file Y/N" with a Y and the APP will automatically read the ship.dat file and process it.  

Some of you know, that I had already covered the Imperium values with my MT combat cards APP, but I still think that Book 4 Highguard is THE definite ship combat system for Traveller.

Since it is virtually impossible to gap the range from 10 tons to 1 Million tons in the numbers 1 to 12, respective 9, I devised another method which works really well. 

All ships are now divided into 4 groups. 

0 = 1-999 tons (Scouts)
1 = 1.000-9.999 tons (Destroyer)
2 = 10.000-99.999 tons (Cruiser)
3 = 100K tons+ (Battleships)

Inside each group you can use the standard IMPERIUM rules, but when ships from different slug it out, use the following rules:

Each group has a magnitude of 10 in comparism to the lower and higher group. E.g. a Destroyer (Group 1) with values 3-1-5 would have 30-10-50 in comparism to any group 0 ship. To fit these values into the 12-9-9 matrix of IMPERIUM you can split up the attack values into multiple attacks, e.g. 30 could be 10 x 3 attacks, and so on. 

On the other hand, a ship of a higher class can take 10 consecutive hits from lower class ships, until it is destroyed. 

