[GZG] FT 2.75 perhaps?

> On a quick aside, Dean Gundberg wrote:

There was a battle in our campaign on sunday with HDCs present... alas my
camera decided to screw up so there's no photos. Basically the attaker was
using 4mass swarm ships... the defender had HDCs, I bet you can guess how that
ended up... I think he killed 15 in one shot.

About this published rules discussion... it can go back and forth. I
personally like published official material, even if it is in a beta state...
that way we can all play along with the same set of possibly broken rules for
a while, moan about them, and let someone fix them. PDFs we can follow and
change, being able to compare from revision to revision. Of course, by
official I mean that it is 'the way' to play the game, used at conventions and
the like.

When I first read the FT rules and thought nothing of them, it was the vector
movement and ship design system in FB1 that caught my attention. I see FT as
the GURPS of space combat games, so I'm not too fussed about official SSDs or
fleet books or background (though they are nice, and obviously there needs to
be example fleets), but it's the generic base rules I'd like to see put out in
a compiled and coherent form. Essentially, that's what I've done for my
campaign players... it took me a while to get everything together, but I think
that's what is needed; Full Thrust edition 2.75 if you will, half way towards
3rd ed.

As for models selling rules or rules selling models. The
non-huge-corporate FT means publishing new rules won't render the old
models useless (as some companies like to do). Making models without rules,
well as I've said, I see the generic part of FT as its strength... so my group
uses a range of models from different companies, using mostly our own ship
designs (though this is a biased remark since we are playing in a campaign
setting).

That reply got longer than I expected... still, I'll write up a report
sometime this year for a battle I did get photos of, will post a link when
it's done.

Simon