From: John C <john1x@h...>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:17:55 GMT
Subject: [FT]Big ol' fleet game (was Re: Pre-measuring things)
> > (This is all particularly relevant to me right now. I hope to run a > fleet It > > will be an all-day affair, but we're going to need things to move as > quickly I'm taking the easy way out. Or at least I WAS taking the easy way out, before my printer broke.... I've been scanning the SSDs from the first fleet book, organizing and resizing them in Excel, and will (hopefully) be printing them out, cutting them out, and slipping them into baseball card protectors. This will allow me to customize the sides quickly and easily -- three or four players on each side, and only the total point values will be important -- and will make the SSDs easy to reuse, since they can be marked on with grease pencils. My largest fleet is composed of NSL ships, supplemented by a handful of old Fortress Figures plastics, and will make up the whole of one side. There are about fifty of these ships, with about ¼ of the force being made up of either heavy cruisers or battlecruisers. How many I use will depend on how well the other side comes together. The other side will be made up of FSE -- about 25 ships, a handful of NAC -- an even half dozen, and a few BFG Imperial ships -- 8 or 9 ships, which I will be giving ESU stats. I have enough FSE ships painted to match up with the NSL, but I wanted to show off some of the other things that I've been painting. My last fleet, made up of around 60 GW Spacefleet Tyranids, will be sitting this one out. If I had FBII, though...but that will have to wait until I have spending money again. I'd much rather be designing custom forces for everyone, but I wanted to do this with a minimal amount of time and effort. Time, at least, is at a premium for me right now. At the moment, all I have done is my New Bavarian designs, and they need heaps of work.