Re: FMAS names

I've got my own suggestions...

but Target Rich Environment is real catchy... imagine this exchange at a
table
in a store: "What are you guys playing ?", "Target Rich Environment",
"Got room
for one more ?"

--- Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:31:46 +0000, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
wrote:
> 
> >I think that may be FireFIGHT, but will have to check.
> 
> By golly, you're right. "Fire Fight", copyright 1985. "Firefight" was
an SPI
> modern tactical board game, and "Firepower" was an Avalon Hill
skirmish game.
> There was a PC game called "Fireteam" that came out in the late '90s.
West
> End
> Games also had a tactical combat board game called "Fireteam".
> 
> Here are a couple of my name ideas.
> 
> "Overwatch" - I like this one, but don't know if you'd have problems
with GW.
> GW likes to think it invented the term (though I first came across the
term
> in
> the '70s when discussing infantry tactics).
> 
> "Reaction Fire" - The name is based on a term in Stargrunt, so it has
that
> SG2
> connection. 
> 
> "Target Rich Environment" - Kind of cumbersome, but it's a known
phrase, has
> a
> simple acronym (TRE) and fits in with a three word title like "Bugs
Don't
> Surf".
> 
> "Die Shift" - Okay, this is frivolous, but at least it fits the two
syllable
> theme, and it has the word "die" in it! 
> 
> By the way... Everyone knows where the term "bugs" comes from when
regarding
> aliens (Starship Troopers or Aliens, take your pick). I remember
talking to
> someone who didn't realise that "Bugs Don't Surf" is a take off on a
phrase
> in
> a war movie! I know the movie (don't have it on DVD yet), but can
anyone else
> name the movie, the actual phrase, and the name of the character
saying the
> phrase? *G* 
> 
> 
> Allan Goodall 		 awg@sympatico.ca
> Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall
> 
> "Now, see, if you combine different colours of light,
>  you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
>  brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan, 
>    "Jack B. Quick, Boy Inventor"
> 
> 

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