Nice gaming weekend

Hello everybody

Just came back from a very nice gaming weekend near Bermen/Germany. It 
was a small mini-con (12 participants) mainly devoted to DBM. I was 
quite happy with my DBM performance, winning 2 out of 5 games, and 
coming very close to winning a	match against a very competent player. 

To bring this on-topic, the organizer had also asked participants to 
offer demos of other games, and I suggested to organize a Full Thrust 
game. Once word of this got out, I was pleasantly surprised. Not only 
were there a number of interested players, I got several e-mails 'Can I 
bring my own fleet ?', 'Me too?'. In the end, 4 out of the 12 players 
had Full Thrust experience. I didn't expect that high a percentage here 
in Germany. A total of 7 signed up for the game.  

One player brought a fine, painted table-top and space 'terrain' that 
was much better than anything I could provide.	

We had fine weather all the weekend - rare in Germany :-( and played 
outside all the time. Full Thrust was scheduled for the evening, so we 
played under a star-studded sky, enhancing the experience. 

After some discussion, we settled on an NAC vs. LLAR fleet frontal 
encounter, with 4000 points a side, 3 or 4 players a side, with 
cinematic movement and FB1 rules. The game went fairly smoothly and 
everyone enjoyed it. Most memorable for me was an embarassment early in 
the game, when I tried to shave too closely around an asteroid cloud, 
totaled a cruiser and had to divert a destroyer into an onrushing NAC 
fighter swarm - the result was the same as if I had flown into the 
asteroid :-( 

One lesson learned is that the fleets were too large for a group of 
beginners, especially the shooting took a bit too long.  

A nice game, some more gamers interested in Full Thrust... 

Oh, and somebody gave me a photocopy of 'More Thrust' :-)

Greetings