Re: Tin Cans versus Dreadnoughts

I think that having these different models to choose from is good. 
Helps to
give a fleet a "feel".	Then you can tweak it to make an interesting
fleet/nation.  Very cool.  By all means try to be as original as you
can.

 Just so long as we are not "all scifi is really the mid-to-late 20th
century with a veneer of scifi on top".  I had a "conversation" with one
promenent space game designer who thought this.  Really annoying...I'll
leave the identification of those two games and their designer to
others.

Basically I just don't feel like getting into a "...my widget defeats
your
gismo...ect". Round and round,ect."  Such games are useally overly
complex.

So in my opinion, using a "real world model" to base your sci-fi fleets
on,
is good, just remember -- we are playing a game, not modeling
reality...or
you might as well be playing a navel game.

Donald Hosford

Glenn M Wilson wrote:

> Even Worse <grin> we cannot (try over on the sfconsim list for a BIG
> archive of these type threads) agree on what 'model'	the game should
be
> based on...
>
> Pre-WW1?
>
> WW2?
>
> Modern Naval?
>
> and the minority models:
>
> Air Force in Space
>
> today's Space Command extrapolated (and given vehicles, right now they
> are essentially 'eyes only'.	Yes, I said essentially, I can neither
> confirm or deny...)
>
> Plus there is all that detritus from Star Trek, Star Wars, Baby-lon 5,
> Japanese anime'....