New AoG "Fleet Scale" ships?

Hey guys,

Has anyone heard anything about the "Fleet Scale" minis that AoG list as
"Coming Soon" on their product list? (see below)

Thanks.

Jeff

I've heard rumours of a GenCon demo and that the rules are approaching
playtest level of completeness.

AoG is coming out with a "Fleet Scale" game of B5 combat. They will be
demo-ing it at GenCon in a couple of weeks.  The FA scale fighters and
ships are going to be much smaller than the current line of figures they
produce, and will therefore be less expensive. In addition, all of the ships
will be closer to scale with each other instead of the 4 or 5 different ship
scales they have now (a "scale" for bases, another scale for cap ships,
another for medium ships, and yet another for fighters).

They did come out with a.pdf file that had the actual sizes of the Fleet
Action scale minis. It used to be on their web site.

Currently, the Fleet Action fighters (Nial, Starfury, Frazi, and Sentri I
believe) are supposed to be out within a couple of weeks. They had a problem
with the stand so it had to be recast. Fleet Action Hyperions and Vorchans
should also be out around that time. Due out soon afterwards are the FA Primus
and Olympus.

Chris

> Hey guys,

I saw a few of the AOG Fleet ships at Origins '99. They looked pretty
decent.  There didn't seem to be any of the flash/fitting problems
that caused me such anguish with the first run of AOG figs. The fighters were
decently priced for 3 stands of 6 ftrs. (around $8 USD) They were also scaled
for "normal" FT ops.

On the other hand, I also saw their Nova and Olympus ships and balked at the
pricing of $13 USD apiece. I exclaimed to the booth trolls but they shrugged
and made noises about "licensing fees."

On the Off-Topic Gripping Hand, I grabbed all of the Ral Partha
"Crimson Skies" Line. They were decently priced and cut me about $15 off the
total when I bought them. These are for their alternate 1930's aviation game
and the minis are very nice. No real flash probs, no construction probs and
sweet designs of this oddball era of
aviation infancy.  Lots of pusher planes and strange canard-using prop
jobs with rear gun turrets. <smirk>

-=Kr'rt