From: Mike Wikan <mww@n...>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 17:30:06 -0700
Subject: BFGothic- Review
Okay. I bought it. Didn't wanna do it, but it was on special. I am weak. and I like it. It is nowhere NEAR as flexible or elegant asystem as FT. But I like it. The ships are very nicely molded (particularly the Imperial Plastics) and give the feeling of leviathan cruisers maneuvering in the depths of space. Light ships just die. They handle fighters and bombers as one-shot ordnance that fly around and disappear after they attack either another fighter, a ship, or intercept torpedoes. There is pretty neat rules for boarding torpedoes and the Eldar are just plain NASTY (Eclipse Class cruisers carrying Holofields, Fighters and TWO pulsar lance batteries) There is a bit of characterization available to individual ships and rules for a campaign game.