Mecha! and Starship! From Flagship Games

Dear Everyone: I was cruising the Web in search of new vistas in gaming. I
found the WWW site of Flagship Games. They have two games: Mecha! which is
currently available and Starship! which is yet to be released. I was wondering
if anyone had any info on these games.

Later,

> Dear Everyone:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >Dear Everyone:

Yes, they're the same company. They just changed their name.

Later,

> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Ground Zero Games wrote:

In that case, I can tell you a bit about "Mecha!". It's a Mecha game (gee
Brian, wish I was clever like you....) designed for miniatures play using
plastic kit mecha models (anything from a couple of inches tall up to the BIG
ones), and is fairly generic; not terribly well put together as far as
I can remember (a mech-head friend has my copy at the moment for
"research"), and looks a bit clunky in places, but may well work OK. One
particular thing is its use of 3D for flying mecha (it is mainly
ground/air
combat, not space) with natty acrylic "poles" that slot together to give
different altitudes, with a platform on top to stand your mech model on
-
pretty, but also expensive....

Interesting to hear they're doing a Starship game - wonder if it is
space-Mecha/Anime orientated or a more conventional ship-to-ship?

Jon (GZG)

PS: If I can be allowed a [SHAMELESS COMMERCIAL PLUG] for a friend, if anyone
is into miniatures mecha games and wants a really fast, FUN game
that allows each player to operate several mecha and still get an 8-mech
game (for example) over in an hour or so, I can strongly recommend the little
A5 booklet MECHA CARNAGE put out by GOMI DESIGNS (who are mainly Tim and Simon
Parnell, who do most of my typesetting for me on the GZG rules). Tim wrote MC
and is putting it out as a "small press" publication, nothing fancy, but it
works well and has a good construction system that allows you
to build anything from steam-powered retrotech mecha upwards!

> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Ground Zero Games wrote:

> I thought Mecha! was published by Seventh Street Games (at least, my

Same thing. Guess why their web address ends ~ssg? They went bust and started
over with a new name. The Flagship name was probably chosen to rhyme with
their Pirates! line.

Mecha! is actually a pretty good game, if somewhat old. It's just a shame they
apparently never got Combat! out.

> Mark A. Siefert wrote:

Mecha is the name of a simple yet evolved battlesuit combat game by
Seventh Street games - what was the web address?