Fleet Survey Response

1 posts ยท May 22 2000

From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>

Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:28:28 -0400

Subject: Fleet Survey Response

My fleet is quite a mix. A passle of old Traveller ships (which I think are
just great!), a few Stardate 2298 figures (I think from RAFM or Grenadier
originally) including some very cool looking freighter like ships and a couple
of awesome BCs, a single (I think) Entomalian, a few Silent Death figures, and
my Gurkha world fleet (A mix of ships from the sponsors of this
settlement - 1 UN ship, a few NAC ships, a few IF ships from the Sultan
of Brunei, and an ESU ship or two), and a bunch of SemFed ships, though I
purposefully picked the ones WITHOUT the long necks because I don't like the
NAC. My Semfed forces include a BB, a CVA, some escorts and a bunch of
fighters - the idea being it is a reinforced carrier group with a bunch
of assault transports and a marine carrier ship. I also have a few OU ships.

Since I'm fascinated by various minor powers, I'm interested in fleshing out
fleets for them (since I think they'll do more squabbling than the big boys
and with less optimized ships leading to more tactical possibilities). These
include things like my own Gurkha world (Gorkha) and smaller powers like the
LLAR, OU, etc.

Design wise, I love the OU ships. I loved the Dreamtime paint patterns some
have managed to cover them with too - those look super sharp. I like the
UNSC ships - they have a neat feel to them and I like the modularity.
And the SemFed ships from Brigade (especially that BB I bought) are quite
sharp.

My plans to expand my fleets once my RealLife(TM) gets settled down include:
1) More Semfed ships (a Wall of Battle).
2) UNSC - enough to put together a DN based battlegroup with transport
for a ground force
3) An LLAR navy - some home brew ships (small, maybe using some SD
minis), some ESU (under the theory that the ESU is likely to aide anyone who
is a thorn to the NAC), and some FSE (under the theory that France has a
history of selling guns to both sides in a conflict...)
4) KV - I've played them in the old days and done well. They were
overpowered. I'm interested to try them under "new vector". Though this one
won't be a rush - my buddies around Kingston have about 20,000 pts worth
of KV now. And lots of NAC too.