From: DAWGFACE47@w...
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:59:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
I AND MY FRIENDS also use the huge TRAVELLER, super developed universe,, as well as player designed subsectors using the TRAVELLER system, as the background (modified) for our science fiction gaming since the 1970s. FOR RULES we have used STARGUARD, STARSHIP MARINE BOARDING ACTION RULES, SPACE MARINE -FGU NOT GW, STRIKER, STRIKE FORCE ALPHA, and others including SLAMMER and SGII for ground combat and ship boarding actions. SPACESHIP AND STARSHIP, including lesser spacecraft, combat has been handled with more rules than I can name here, including -recently-FT. FIGURES IN use over the years include 25mm GRENADIER, RP, STAN JOHNSON, HERITAGE MODELS, GARRISON, STAR WARS, ARCHIVE, as well as 28mm scale figures in metal and plastic from GW (BIG TIME!), RAFM, METAL MAGIC, DENIZEN, GZG, and other makers. Pick an alien model and someone probably has it! Ditto for a humans! We use a lot of fantasy, Cthulhu, dinosaurs, and other prehistoric animals /birds for native as well as introduced Earth wildlife on our worlds. ALSO plastic aquatic animals, assorted insects, arachnids, millipedes, centipedes and snakes too. USING the TRAVELLER system, human and alien armed forces run from topline to really, really mediocre-bad. Assorted tech levels too. We have the SPACE PIRATES so beloved of sci-fi too, both human and non-human. SOOO, some folks may say we are not "serious" in our gaming as we do not stay awake nights worrying about the latest science breakthroughs causing game revisions, we just "soldier on" and have fun. LOL, after all, playing games and having fun i with friends s what the hobby is about to a large extent, with painting, reading, modelling, terrain making, making up the rest. OOOPS, also, I am a long time gamer (since the early 70s) who gmes almost everything from dinosaurs to starships and starship troopers. Ancient, medieval, science fiction ground and space warfare, VSF, 19th century colonial warfare, wild west, RPGing ( TRAVELLER in particular) are my favorite game genres. GLAD TO MEET Y"ALL! DAWGFACE