[GZG] Funny thing, only worth mentioning because it's so quiet

I used to play a lot of GW games. They were my introduction to miniature
wargaming, and it was the desire to have a space combat element to my grand
and epic WH40K campaign that led me to pick up Full Thrust.

Some of the guys who I played with back then never got into Full Thrust or
SG2. One of them dropped me a line the other day, wanting me to playtest his
wargame rules, which were to run skirmishes in a SF
background using WH40K models.  I agreed to give the rules a look-see.

Right off the bat, I saw this guy and I were still at very different spots in
the spectrum of wargamers. He wants perfect command and control. He wants
perfect morale, fight to the last man battles. He wants free selection of
squad armament and weapons. He wants "you go, I go", where each side activates
all their squads, then the other side does.

What was interesting was him investigating notions like reflecting changes in
accuracy at range by changing the polyhedron you roll to hit the target number
(die shifts), or high strength weapons rolling larger dice to wound the target
(die shifts again).

He was a long way from Stargrunt, of course, but he'd also strayed a long way
from WH40K. I think he may have even made 40K a worse game, but I'll have to
play it and see.