From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:59:44 +0100
Subject: New ships! (was: Re: Fwd: RE: [GZGOLC] Comments Please)
> > by the way i suppose the projected FT3 will include Yes, there are! ;-) I was going to save this for a few days and post the news closer to Salute (Olympia, Kensington, on the 23rd April), but seeing as the question has been raised.... Our major new model launch for Salute is a whole load of NEW ships for the ESU - all-new designs, while still keeping enough styling cues from the old ships that you will be able to mix and match. FH-wise, they will be designs that were beginning to come into production just before the Xeno War to replace the older ships - during and after XW1 their production will be accelerated to replace the huge losses of the war. Thus you can have some of the new designs in a pre-XW1 (SW3) fleet as new ships "just off the slips", and also quite happily use your older ships alongside the new ones in post-XW1 forces as venerable survivors of the war years! I'm very pleased with how they're looking so far, and hope all of you will be too. They have certain similarities to the 209/210/211 "family" in some ways, but in others are very different; now that they've come together there is a SLIGHTLY "Klingon-y (tm)" feel about them (in terms of the Klingon Battlecruiser that ERTL made a kit of - was that in a movie or Next Gen, I can't recall? - rather than the classic D7 or the Bird of Prey). I think you'll see what I mean when I get some photos done. Masters are already built for all--new SDN, CVH, CH (or possibly BC), CL, DD, FF, CT and Scout! More news over the next few days as the moulds are made..... More soon.... ;-) Jon (GZG) > Was using classic and next gen UFP Star Trek ships for my Cal Tex, Music > to my ears.