Star Blazers FT

Has anyone done a Star Blazers conversion? And are any minis available in the
U.S.?

> On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Win Baker wrote:

> Has anyone done a Star Blazers conversion? And are any minis available

> Has anyone done a Star Blazers conversion? And are any minis available

Star Blazers....is that the one with the wave-motion gun?? (my memory is
vaguely fading). If so, Bill Acheson had some rules he cobbled together last
year (if he's still here with us; you still out there, Bill??)

Mk

> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

Ohhhh...Ohhhhh...I've seen them. I've seen them.
        Since I've seen some of the Star Blazers/Yamato series, I'd say
the minis are very, very good. Keith Johansen (narn@aol.com) is also doing a
SB space combat game that go with the minis. I haven't seen it yet (though he
did want me to be a playtester.) nor do I know how the system works. As for
the minis. I plan on picking up some ships as soon as Keith gets back from a
trip to Japan on April 1. (He lives and operates in Milwaukee; just a hop,
skip and a hyperspace jump from Muskego.)

Later,

> hosford.donald wrote:

> There is a set of rules on mark's Unoffical Full Thrust Page.

There is? I've got a link to a Mobile Suit Gundam (More "big robot"
anime....yuck!) stats.  But no Star Blazers/Yamato stuff.  I was
thinking of comming up with some stuff by myself, but I don't know the exact
armament and capabilities of these ships. If some has something for Yamato,
I'll only be too happy to put it up.

Later,

The Argo aside, the rest of the Star Blazers ships (especially Terran) would
make for great FT ships. Easpecially since the forward turrets cannot be
swiveled to face aft. Though, don't most ships have at least one aft turret?

Win Barker Imagineer Solutions onQue

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> Win Baker wrote:

There is a set of rules on mark's Unoffical Full Thrust Page.

There are mini's....small plastic models. The ones I have are imported by
twentieth century imports from japan. The EDF DD is about 3.5 inches long. The
EDF Battlecruiser is about 5 inches long. I don't have any offical FT minis,
so I don't know how they compare for size.

> Mark A. Siefert wrote:

Sorry about that, I thought that was where I got it from...

Then where did I download it from?

Thats the problem with the internet...If you don't document it the
moment you find something, you forget where you got it...:-)

> Funny that, I was just digging through my closet this morning and found

I don't believe they did stats for the Yamato, itself. Just a few Gamilon, and
Comet Empire ships and a couple EDF cruisers.

The problem is, if you introduce the Yamato into the game, the Yamato would
have to automatically win. No matter what it was up against.

Mark Siefert wrote re Starblazers FT:

> I was thinking of comming up with some stuff by myself, but I don't

IIRC, an old issue of The Space Gamer had a Starblazers game. I'll try to dig
it out sometime in the next couple of days and see if there is anything
interesting in it.

> I was thinking of comming up with some stuff by myself, but I don't

> interesting in it.

Funny that, I was just digging through my closet this morning and found my
copy. Oct/Nov '87, #80. It's a stand-alone game. It is fairly basic as
far
as weapons go: lasers, e-torps, and missiles (ie, I don't see anything
in
there called a 'wave-motion gun'). Lasers are type-1, type-2, type-3,
type-2b,
and point defense. E-torps are type-1, type-2, and type-3. Missiles are
Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, and Mk IV. I don't know StarBlazers near well enough to
pretend to know how to translate these into FT stats.

They also cover fighters (F-15, F-5, and A-10; *amazing* how they use
designations that are oh so familiar...  ;-), and have a boarding action
chart that may or may not prove useful.

Well, I've pointed you in the general direction. Take it from there.:)

Mk

> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote:

> IIRC, an old issue of The Space Gamer had a Starblazers game. I'll

I have it. #80 from Oct/Nov 87.

Personally I hate energy allocation games, but I guess you could remove that
aspect... It's made by Twentieth Century Imports, who incidentally also sold
the minis back then.

Not too good research either. The game has fighter types F-15, F-5 and
A-10... Starblazers/Yamato fighters did have names too... Pretty simple
though, 4 pages of rules and 5 charts, plus 4 turning templates and one fire
arc template. And complex SSD's for all ships, with a point system
no-one cares to explain.

This would be great! I remember running home from school to watch that show.
One of the local hobby stores has some larger imort models from the show and
an older completed one in a much smaller scale (still too big for FT) that
they don't make any more. I loved the cap ship with the two big "nova" cannons
on it and the torpedo fighters. Anyone know if the series (three seasons?) is
out on video?

> Anyone know if the series (three seasons?) is out on video?

All three seasons are on video (buy them all in a nice boxed set for $150 or
so) A local comics shop rents anime and rents these for $1 for 2
 nights and has a special deal if you pre-pay rentals for the whole
series. I have intended to rent these for a while but setting aside the hours
is difficult.