DS2 optional rules feedback

> I wrote:
12",
> FGP: 15")

> Who uses boats anyways right? In a campaign where we were amassing

> Andrew wrote:

> Large vessels like ships or brown water naval vessels are another

The game I was talking about was a campaign idea that didn't really get off
the ground. It involved actually massing rescources and technology, we were
limited to certain types of vehicles, weapons, ect. until we had spent enough
points to acquire the knoledge to build it, captured vehicles added bonuses to
that effort. That was with a group I was in just after high school, and most
of our campaign rules were written down on scraps of paper we had on hand. I
have only recently been trying to piece them together, sometimes literally, to
come up with a long term campaigning system (from deep space interceptions and
planetary system assaults in FT to massed ground actions in DS2 with infantry
and covert ops in SG2 [to help with the research effort mostly]). Anyways we
didn't start out with Grav, Slow GEV and Patrol boats was all we had to start
with. RSW air cushon rules are rather pointless because I could just have a
CFE +
Hydrofoil for the same effect regardless of craft size. In fact that's the
argument that made the house rule necessary.

As to naval brown water ships (which the U.S. has very few if any, a common
complaint from navy commanders forced to use deep ocean craft in the persian
gulf), and deep ocean craft: the former are taken care of with the oversize
(Class 6 and 7) rules. The latter, I just use a modular tank design with a
standard hull mobility. (8" move only as FGP's are required for modular tanks
anyways.) I haven't really experimented with being obnoxious and adding more
engines to make them go faster.

> Andrew wrote:

Actually I haven't gotten to play as much DS2 as I'd like to recently. I
really can't remember the average force sizes of our engagements when I was
trying to get that campaign put together. I have been trying to rebuild my
armies as I lost my notebook with my designs and force compositions about
three and a half years ago, and I haven't had that much time to dedicate to
DS2