Smash and Grab: Star Viking Hot Recovery Operations (Traveller: The New Era) [Paperback]

Frank Chadwick (Author), David Nilsen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Game Designers Workshop (January 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155878165X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558781658
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,131,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent supplement for Traveller: The New Era, October 11, 2003

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This review is from: Smash and Grab: Star Viking Hot Recovery Operations (Traveller: The New Era) (Paperback)

"Rebuilding an interstellar culture from the ruins of the Third Imperium involves a wide variety of activities, and each of these can form the basis of great adventures. The Reformation Coalition undertakes all of them -- intelligence gathering, diplomacy, economic redevelopment, interstellar trade and commerce, and many, many more. But of all of them, the one operation that became synonymous with the Coalition, the one most closely linked to the Star Viking mystique, was called Smash & Grab."

The essence of Smash & Grab is that Reformation Coalition operatives (the characters) engage on covert missions to planets outside the RC borders. They infiltrate for a number of missions (intelligence, rescue, surgical strike), and by different methods. The missions can get real hairy; though the RC (usually) has superior equipment & training in its favor, the opponents ("teddies" - technologically elevated dictatorships) have the benefit of numbers and control over the planet.

I would highly recommend this book, and the rest of the TNE series.