Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:22:46 +0000
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
Subject: Re: What is FMA?
That's pretty close; yes, "The FMA System" is the name we gave to the game
engine of opposed polyhedral dice rolls, alternate activations etc. that forms
the core of both SGII and DSII. And yes, we are using FMA as the overall title
for the skirmish game system (already "previewed" in rough playtest form to
the lucky denizens of this
list!!), which will be man-to-man level (as opposed to the squad-based
level of SGII). FMC is a proposed (and partially tested) fantasy version of
FMA. FMA will see print as soon as it can be done, which means sometime after
FTFB2 and the Scenario Book (and either before or after FT3!).
Jon (GZG)
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LET ME SAY THREE WORDS: BUGS DON'T SURF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you promised us BDS since the SG2 rules, when FMASkirmish is a latecomer as
is the latest generation of FT stuff, the least you could do is make a
pretense that one day you'll gift us with the product.....
Jeez. Or is this just not popular enough to be commercially viable?
;)
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:22:46 +0000
that
> forms the core of both SGII and DSII.
[Serious commercial games company mode on....]
Well, Tom, to be honest this IS part of the problem. SG is popular in itself,
but it also has a lot of competitors in the marketplace. However, FT sales
(books and minis) FAR outstrip DS and SG put together, on both sides of the
Atlantic. Now, it could be argued that more product support
will increase SG/DS sales, and that may or may not be the case - but it
is a tricky thing to balance when time is so limited. FT3 is needed due to the
age of FT2 - we don't want to be forever reprinting a nine-year-old
product, and the new edition is commercially important to stay in contention
in this section of the market. FMA has been in development (in one form or
another) for a good few years now, and we need it out in print to give us a
competitor to the other
skirmish-based systems on the market.
I really DO intend to do BDS at some point (and always have done), I just
don't know when yet. It'll be interesting to see the level of reaction we get
to the Scenario Book, from the Ground Pounders and the Vacuum Heads....
> Thomas.Barclay wrote:
> If you promised us BDS since the SG2 rules, when FMASkirmish is a > >
latecomer as is the latest generation of FT stuff,
SG2 was published, and BDS promised, in 1996.
The Fleet Book was promised in MT, published in 1993. FB1 only fulfils half of
that promise, since the KV were part of the CMD range back then and isn't
included in FB1.
By your own logic, FB2 clearly has precedence over BDS :-)
Regards,