Re: Sa'vasku - ground forces (look & feel)

You wrote: 

>Hopefully some more variants/castes will appear
>as I don't know how you'd build/grow a 
>starship with a single pincer as the main 
>manipulation appendage.

I don't know about anyone else, but if I pick any up, I will be adding 
some sort of weapon pod to the forelimbs or something.	I don't think 
that in a game with artillery, aviation, and scatterable mines a 
close-combat only force would have a significant chance.  Fire AND 
maneuver.  Of course, you also gotta have some kind of bio-engineered 
large bug to fill the role of a tank.  After all, we know they can 
bioengineer spacecraft to spit energy pulses, why not other critters?  

But on the battlefield I doubt you'd see any critter not specifically 
designed for land warfare unless you've penetrated into a 'secure' area 
in which case all bets are off.

John M. Atkinson