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Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

From: Donald Hosford <Hosford.Donald@a...>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 05:34:00 -0400
Subject: Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions



Ryan M Gill wrote:

> Well, I'm looking at the possibility for two maps. One for the Ship
> actions to be fought on. And one for the players to move stuff around
> on. The large size of the map would allow for a good area of play. If
> one wanted to go smaller you could of course. The trick is to be sure
> it scales up. The advantage of having just task forces and not entire
> ships is that you could sit down and note each down based on Hex
> numbers and revisit the game over several successive days. Another
> idea would be a wall mount map with adhesive or slightly tacky
> icons/labels for the task forces/blips.
>
> A 6'x6' wall map would work well I think. Laminate it and you could
> use grease pencils ala the Ops rooms on board ships. (Nice because
> your situation maps don't crash if they are grease pencil marks.)
>

I like this idea.  And it leaves the table free for the battles.

Donald Hosford


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