Yes, HG 2nd edition does allow the use of LBB2 maneuver drives, jump drives, and/or power plants.
I've cobbled together a spreadsheet draft that gives me the option to use LBB2 maneuver drives, jump drives, and/or power plants when using HG 2nd edition, unfortunately I put the spreadsheet together after which I started verifying the designs in LBB2 2nd edition and then moving on to Supplement 7. When LBB2 2nd edition wasn't working I pulled out my copy of LBB2 1st edition after someone on the COTI forums pointed me in the right direction.
Sadly, the designer of the LBB2 1st edition express boat was able to pass a design without a power plant which became broken in LBB2 2nd edition and LBB 5 2nd edition. Personally I feel that the express boat was broken in LBB2 1st edition when I got my first set of Traveller LBBs back in 1978 or 1979. Back then the only way to ask a question and get answers was by snail mail. Being in a rotation of three months in Pearl Harbor and three months onboard a SSBN I probably would have forgotten what I asked in the first place.
From: "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <nobody@simplelists.com>
To: tml@simplelists.com
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 10:45:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] Original CT LBB's scoutship vs CT HG scoutship?
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On Thu, 10/23/14, tmr0195@comcast.net <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML] Original CT LBB's scoutship vs CT HG scoutship?
To: tml@simplelists.com
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014, 9:49 PM
Evening
Kenneth Barns,
To the best of my knowledge HGS is using LBB2 2nd
edition for the crew and rules from TCS. Unfortunately or
fortunately depending on your point of view HGS does not
allow the use of LBB2 jump drive, maneuver drive, or power
plants per LBB5 2nd edition rules.
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Actually, according to my copy of LBB5 High Guard 2ed (c)1980 it *is* permissible to use CT LBB2.
pg22 'Drives' section;
"It is possible to use standard drives from Book 2 is they will otherwise meet the ship's requirements; such drives use fuel as indicated in the formulas in Book2.
pg27 line8;
"Drives obtained from Book 2 require use of the fuel formulas in Book 2".
Also note that the first sentence in the 'Drives' section specifies that their are three types of 'drives', "maneuver drives, power plants, & jump drives".
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