Simultaneous moves/fire & Holes in Bases

> George,Eugene M wrote:
--Does anyone else out there treat firing as a simultaneous action
(using
--written fire declarations, or heaven forfend, the honor system) or do

The original FT I used this simultaneous fire rule and I still use it in FT II
as I didn't like the feel of the alternate rule having played simultaneous, It
feels more 'correct' to me too. We use the honor system unless it gets abused.

Each side fires all its ships, the damage is noted & thresholds rolled but
dead systems are not struck through on the SSD but a broken line used

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Until all sides have fired, & thresholded, then the damage on the SSD is
struck through on all SSD's.

andy.skinner wrote:-
--By the way, the question I'm most interested from my post was
--how you get ships to stay on without fixing them there, especially
--if the hole in the bottom of the ship doesn't quite match the
--peg on your base.

I fill mine with Milliput (AKA epoxy putty) Then drill them out for the
required stand sizes. I'm going to use Plastic Padding Chemical Metal to see
if its more durable as the putty can crumble with abuse. FYI Chemical Metal is
strong enough to be tapped with a thread and hold a bolt, there is an good
demo of things glued together in the hardware store which is pretty
indestructable.

In addition plastic and soft metal stand tips can be right-sized using a
pencil sharpener (small hand held aluminium variety with a sharp blade) so
that they taper to a point, with the drilled hole this can produce a
satisfatory interference fit as shown by this rather risque diagram.

                           ___
                          |   | hole
                 _________|   |__________

                            _   tip
                           / \
                          /   \
                          |   |

I use this to mount MicroMachines on standard clear flying base hex stands (GW
type) if you sharpen the tip - after removing the little nipple bit - it
fits very snugly into the MicroMachine plastic if sharpened to the right
amount. You could use a file but the pencil sharpener is quicker and gives a
more even taper for less effort.

Sincerely Tim Jones