FMA Skirmish game

> Ground Zero Games wrote:

WOOHOO a sign of progress...YEA

(no offense jon)

Jon, How close are you to completing the FMA skirmish game? Phil P.

Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!

> Jon,

Not far off completing the ideas, but writing it all down is a bit further
away (unless you've got access to a direct neural download....);)

Probably won't have a chance to do anything on it till at least the Fleet Book
is off to the printers in a month or so.

Jon.

I heard rumors that after the Fleet Book would be "Bugs Don't Surf". Is this
true?

On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:54:42 -0500 Christopher Pratt <valen10@flash.net>
writes:
> Ground Zero Games wrote:

Well, I am like a little kid at Christmas, about to pee my pants because I
want the skirmish rules so bad, and will probably dink around a little bit
with my own rules. I've got my own ideas, but I'm curious to see how detailed
members of the list would want such a game. In particular, what do you see in
SG2 that would need to be changed?

cowell@cs.utk.edu spake thusly upon matters weighty:

> Well, I am like a little kid at Christmas, about to pee my pants

Although SG2 is a good game, it isn't really a man-to-man game. It is
a squad to squad game. It has some shortcomings for handling in
building battles (ground scale - which therefore affects weapons
ranges and movement - and of course time scale - at roughly 5 min a
turn, that is not reflective of the times in FIBUA/MOUT. Things
happen fast there). The integration of hand thrown and rifle launched
grenades into close assault is somewhat lacking in in-building
scenarios (or in cavern, or in cave, or whatever). The great desire in these
scenarios sometimes is to do the 'open the door, toss in the grenade, shut the
door, dive for cover' manouvre or the 'I put a
rifle grenade down the hall to the end - the shrapnel should hit the
guys hiding down their' type actions.

The basic concepts (die shifts, range banding, firepower and impact,
leadership and confidence) are all well implemented. It's just not the right
scale for in building fighting. Actually, I'd really like to see some rules
for SG2 to do this, or have the Skirmish FMA be the kind of game that
integrates well with SG2 so that you can move
semi-seemlessly from outdoor to indoor scales....

Just some ideas.

Tom.
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> I heard rumors that after the Fleet Book would be "Bugs Don't Surf". Is

> this true?

> Jon did suggest this in one of his posts.

I thought that "Bugs Don't Surf" is the much awaited Dirtside II (also
Stargrunt II?) supplement providing Kra'Vak and other Non-Human info.

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:59:22 -0500, carlparl@juno.com (Carl J
> Parlagreco) wrote:

> I heard rumors that after the Fleet Book would be "Bugs Don't Surf". Is

Jon did suggest this in one of his posts.

> I heard rumors that after the Fleet Book would be "Bugs Don't Surf". Is

Kind of depends how I feel at the time as to which of several projects
(BDS, FMA etc.) get pulled off the back burner first....   ;)

Jon (GZG)
> On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:54:42 -0500 Christopher Pratt

On Fri, 06 Mar 1998 00:15:54 +0000 Brian Bell <brian.bell@axom.com>
writes:
> I heard rumors that after the Fleet Book would be "Bugs Don't Surf".

Yep, that's what it is. But it's still part of the whole grand universe we
hold so dear.

Okay, so, what can I do to help? :-)

On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:48:09 +0000 Ground Zero Games
> <jon@gzero.dungeon.com> writes: