From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:47:44 -0500
Subject: [FT] Numerous: Vanilla FTII, Anime' ships, Eroding Stealth/Aero, Photos, People Photos
*** It`s just as a system evolves, it needs rewriting/modifing to take into accout the evolutions that have come allong since it first started (thinking FT, and after the FB`s, how relevant is the original FT book?). *** Crossed my mind, also. Oh, there are still bits and pieces to look at, but my question ends up, does anybody ever use the FTII rules, arcs, and designs anymore? I think I asked this last year, and found one or two. I'm pretty certain that the next time I introduce a non-gamer to ship combat, I'll probably do the vanilla FTII, I keep wanting to say original, system. Simplistic, it's also simple and fun, and you learn early to keep the back door closed. *** Well, anime ships have a fair range of styles - technoform box, 'ninja rocketship' and various assorted strange organic shapes - and then they get very weird - so thats at least 4 different fleets :-) *** We've already known that the Phalons were based on The Outlanders(Did I finally get it right THIS time?). *** I agree, and a similar methodology could be applied to aerodynamic hulls. Hmm.. what about combined Stealth/Aerodynamics? *** Not certain how much beyond the damage structure is common to both, but reduction/loss is appropriate to damage, though I'd think both would go down faster than second threshold. However, your PSB, your call. ;->= *** > PUNY VACHEADS. ALL YOUR IMAGE ARE BELONG TO US. You don't *sound* very sorry. *** *shakes head* STILL cracks me up. I plead insanity. Thanks for both the joke and the piccie space, Andy. *** Always interested, especially given the chance to put faces to the names :) Derek *** Truly said, Derek! I must thank you for getting your own face up at your site for The Battle for Launceston. I'm with most the fellows who'd like a peek at your wife who has amazed and entertained us for so long, but even more the rest of the Fulton clan, especially that budding Alexander of yours, Lachy. With troops arrayed, of course. I have no pictures on the web, though I currently have NO web site, so that bit of laziness explains much. I'll see if I can find the pic of me as a corpse at one of the L5R Hida Kisada wakes at a GenCon. Don't play, but got invited to the party after the LARP, and decided to be a 'guest of honor' for a bit. The_Beast