We've been playing that you can fire to the rear arc at any time. Anyone else
do this? What is your standard mode of play for the rear arc?
I got cheap and made my own star map playing area. I bought a black bedsheet
and a white paint pen and dotted the sheet. I took some paint and dotted a few
colored stars (red, green, yellow, blue). I tried to add in a nebula with
brushes but that didn't work as well.
Any other ideas for adding a nebula without spraying/air brushing?
Glen PS. still not working, but can get a job anytime. Enjoying the time off!
Look in craft store for a "speckeling wand" its a wire brush that you dip in
fabric paint. Then hold it over the cloth and twirl it between your fingers.
you get a good random star field effect.
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
> I got cheap and made my own star map playing area. I bought a
A toothbrush is also very useful for making gas clouds and nebula. Use a
cardboard or paper stencil with it and you can get sharp borders for nebula
boundaries.
Jon
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
No cans of spray paint? that would be the easiest, that and a cardboard
template, spary lightly. That is what the Geo-Hex ones seem to be.
Mine came yesterday, when I first saw it I thought "yuck". Then I took it out
of the bag and laid it on the floor and it's beautiful. Kind of like my
paintjobs, hold them close and they look horrible, hold them at arms length
and they look wonderful, well, passable anyway. (Fortunately none of my
opponents are on this list.)
> We've been playing that you can fire to the rear arc at any time.
It really varies. I'm pretty flexible with this rule. Sometimes we play it
that you can't, sometimes that you can, sometimes you can
ONLY if you did not use thrust to accel/decel that turn (course
changing is no problem).
Ultimately it varies with the game/scenario, the players I'm with,
the phase of the moon, and how people are feeling that day. Half the time this
comes up when someone finds someone else in their rear arc and can't fire at
anything else. They ask if they can fire out the rear. Sometimes we're stickly
for the rules, other times it's just sporting so don't worry about it. Again,
it really varies. Sometimes
it depends on the players involved, the game/scenario being played,
the phase of the moon that month, and whether or not Mars is in the House of
Scorpio.
:-)
> I got cheap and made my own star map playing area. I bought a
I had a plain black cloth for a while that I used. Never had the
time to do anything fancy with it. Then I got a Geo-Hex starmat.
I haven't looked back. ;-)
Mk