[DS]Reason for going to DS2

I also came from Battletech. I wanted a way to do massive battles quicker as a
campaign tool for the mercenary BT unit. That is for battles not fought by the
Merc unit, but that would have consequences to where the front was placed.

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Brian Bell

I suppose I should answer my own question.

This is similar to why I became a GZG'er. A friend introduced me to
battletech.  I loved the idea of futuristic combat on far-flung worlds,
but absolutely HATED the damage resolution ssytem, as well as the ridiculously
limited range of the weapons. Plus I wanted something that would play faster
on a larger scale, and allow for any political
factions/background I
wanted. So I picked up DSII.

2B^2

> From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>

> that

I suppose I should answer my own question.

This is similar to why I became a GZG'er. A friend introduced me to
battletech.  I loved the idea of futuristic combat on far-flung worlds,
but absolutely HATED the damage resolution ssytem, as well as the ridiculously
limited range of the weapons. Plus I wanted something that would play faster
on a larger scale, and allow for any political
factions/background I
wanted. So I picked up DSII.

2B^2

> From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>

> that

> Just out of curiosity, how many of the listers got into GZG the same

I'd played SFB, Starfire, various incarnations of Traveller...then one day I
walked into the game shop to pick up a DBM army list book. Somehow, what I
came out with was FT.

> "laserlight@quixnet.net" wrote:
[many other people's origins here]
> [quoted text omitted]

I was "dragged" into FT one year when vacationing out in Colorado (same
week/trip I discovered B5, in fact ;-). Visiting some college friends
there between trips into the mountains one evening, my one friend one friend
decided to get my opinion of "this new space game". It used miniatures, which
was selling me right away (had been collecting
miniatures since I don't remember - the old Superior line of Starfleet
Wars were the first *real* minis I had collected, but I had other plastic toys
dating further back than that I used for my own battles as a kid). We played
one game, and I was hooked (what really hooked me was the
pseudo-realistic movement of the ships that no other game had - you
apply
thrust, you go forward, you stop applying thrust, you drift forward -
too refreshingly obvious and neat!!!). I found the email list a month or so
later. Been here ever since (but more in a lurking capacity lately due to
being overly busy with RL and stuff :-/ ).

Brian Bilderback schrieb:
> So I picked up DSII.

I had long been playing wargames, mostly historical with some interest in
fantasy and SF. Never got much into SF gaming (GW and Battletech around here)

I was browsing through my regular gameshop and saw DSII. The booklet was
sealed, but the blurb looked interesting and and it had nice pics, so I bought
it. Read it, was impressed.

Then trawled the net for Dirtside, found the other GZG games and this list.

Greetings

I found GZG via Car Wars, actually. I played a fair bit of CW thru junior &
senior high; when the military supplements came out for that I started
to try larger actions - and ran into CW's paperwork barrier. (Generally,
each vehicle in CW needs a full 8.5x11 sheet to display it's stats
on...)

I spent two weeks with a cousin of mine who had some FT stuff, and his local
gaming store had a copy of DS2 which I grabbed. I didnt play for a few years,
then rediscovered the book & minis I'd bought and asked around for players
locally.

Got SG2 a bit later, then finally FT when FB2 came out... the rest is
history...

We've got a fairly steady small group of GZG gamers around town - 4 or 5
who play regularly, and another half dozen who play sometime... including
some semi-recovered GW victims!

Quoting Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>:

> I found GZG via Car Wars, actually. I played a fair bit of CW thru

I was a WWII gamer for a /loooong/ time. Then I started buying GW stuff
back at
university. I tend to habitually buy rules systems - I've got TONS of
the things in storage (I haven't unpacked from moving house yet) and
"dirtside" was something we picked up along the way. I own FullThrust
(although no minis) and I've only played it once at a con a while back.

SGII is more my kind of thing, and now I've actually got enough figures
(having put a hole in the credit card at Partizan) I might get round to
playing it more often.

Although my other half was rather taken by "Gothic Horror" and bought his
first minatures. Ahh... a roleplayer converted. What a sight.

[Waves at everyone who was at Partizan - it's been a long time since I
went a