Victory By Any Means Games -- Any Comments?

Has anyone seem this book? It seems like it would be handy for FT campaigns.

Star Ranger blurb: http://www.star-ranger.com/VBAM.htm

Damo

> Damond Walker wrote:

> Has anyone seem this book? It seems like it would be handy for FT
:-)  Funny you should ask.   I bought a copy of the electronic
version a week ago for $15. If you'd have asked this question a few days ago,
I could have made a print out for you to look at at the convention.

I've briefly skimmed over the rules and like what I see. It looks like a
versatile campaign system for Full Thrust scenario generation and provides
rules for various types of fleet encounters.

Maps include "hyperspace lanes" between star systems, so movement is regulated
from system to system. The rules have generic combat rules for space and
ground combat, so you could use the campaign rules to generate either FT games
or DS games.

One thing I like about it is that fleets have maintenance costs, so there is
an upper limit on the size of a fleet that your economy can support. I can
recall playing in a space campaign game where this wasn't the case and massive
fleets were built and the game became unwieldy.

I picked it up at RPGNow and paid with Paypal.

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:07:44PM -0500, Damond Walker wrote:

Yup, it's pretty impressive. I'm involved in the VBAM/Starmada playtest,
and once I know a bit more about the system I may well try to put
together a VBAM/FT conversion of some sort (unless someone else steps in
first)...

R