RE: Star Wars Figures

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip E. Pournelle [mailto:pepourne@nps.navy.mil]
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 9:06 AM
> To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Star Wars Figures
>	While the figures could have used a lot of work and West
> End Games never did support the Miniatures Game, the rules do not need
to
>be changed much at all.  For the Universe they were written for, they
were
>extremely well written and provided a reasonably smooth transition from
the
>Role Playing game to the miniatures system.
>	I seriously doubt that anyone who is working in "new" rules
> for that can improve on them...
>	The reason the game failed is WEG did not support the
> product, produced marginal figures (Space troopers look like walking
eggs)
>and the books were not very attractive (black and white, no eye candy
for a
>rich universe...).

I don't want to get too far off thread with this or seem too pedantic
but;
people seem to forget that SW was a very popular system but is showing
it's
age design wise. The rules are quite good and the design when first
released
was considered state of the art. One thing GWS and others have done in
the
last five years is make consumers expect more smoke and mirrors from a
rules
system. This is not a bad thing. It makes miniatures gaming more
accessible
to the non gaming public (blasphemers!) and in the long run this can
only be
good for us fanatics ( and those of us stupid enough to try and make a
career of the hobby)
I salute WEG for a good product and mourn the demise of a company run by
nice folk. I hope their product survives.

John S