official minis Re: Flat top carriers

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So I looked through the fleet book and decided I like the FSE and ESU
miniature styles the best, with the ESU coming out favored since I dislike the
carrier versions of the FSE (why wet navy style flight decks?).
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There are many people that feel the fleet book fleet designs
are fairly well-balanced, and that would be a good reason to
have some games strictly by the 'rules', if your friend wants to play that the
FB designs are the rules.

I actually support that point of view, but only if stated as the way you want
to play for one game or one campaign or one tourney.

The GZG figs and the books are Jon's livelihood, and yet he's the first to
tell you play what you want, the way you want, just make certain you include
'play' with all it's meanings.

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In Battlestar Galactica the fighters launched out of tubes, but for landing
they used a big open deck, albeit a covered over one.
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As far as flat tops, I also have problems with the designs. In BG's case, the
shots from fighters approaching always looked like 'big tubes' to me. However,
it's very useful as a visual queue saying 'this is a carrier', and I can come
up
with pretty convincing PSB either way. The kit-bashed carriers
I came up with had large funnels on the rear to 'net' the incoming fighters. I
always assumed they'd be EM nets, not hard matter.

I noticed the external fighters on the Roger Young et. al., but don't recall
you actually seeing them launch. Course, that brings up the previous arguments
about external storage all over again. I refer back to the archives.

The_Beast