space marine/opera

I remember Space Opera and IIRC you never wanted to get hit in the
30's!!
(who else remembers this)

 Jon (T.C.)
SDL

> I remember Space Opera and IIRC you never wanted to get hit in the

*raises hand, thinking of the boxed edition sitting on his gameshelf at home*

Mk

> I remember Space Opera and IIRC you never wanted to get hit in the

Proudly raising his hand and remembering that must be somewhere in the boxes
of stuff that have yet to be unpacked from the last move.

> At 02:52 PM 3/12/97 GMT, Jon wrote:

Never played Space Opera, but I tried reading _Aftermath_ once or twice.
Same hit location system, if I remember correctly.

For a lot of people, Space Opera became a source for background info for
Traveller in the early 80s. I know it was big in my old group. Just like the
older versions of Chivalry and Sorcery, it was WAY too complex.

Win Barker Imagineer Solutions onQue

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> At 14:32 13/03/97 -0500, you wrote:
yes, I think you are right and IIRC they were released at about the same
time(ish). I only played aftermath a few times but I remember the intro pre
amble had me storing tins under the bed for weeks!!

Jon (T.C.)

A wise man comes to the meeting late, tells the truth and leaves soon after!
:Old Slovenian proverb.

> At 08:00 AM 3/14/97 GMT, you wrote:

> yes , I think you are right and IIRC they were released at about the

There were some differences between the two. I noted that the hit location
chart appears to be different in Aftermath. The combat flowchart always scared
me...

> I only played aftermath a few times but I remember the intro pre

And not without good reason! There's a very good article in the latest
Military History Quarterly about the war scare in the early 1980s, which I
first heard about on a CBC radio programme four years ago. Ronald Reagan and
Soviet paranoia almost turned us all into crispy critters. We were THIS close
to a nuclear war...

Anyway, this has got me thinking about a post apocalypse SG2 game (he says,
deftly dragging the post back on topic). I'm currently checking out what
equipment was available to both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces back in the early
eighties.