Re: 2300 AD - GZG

Edward,

The discussion board for T2K at webrpg.com is also a good place to go.

2B^2

>From: Edward Lipsett <translation@intercomltd.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: 2300 AD - GZG
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:55:45 +0900
>
>At last! Mention of 2300AD!
>
>The entire series, along with the Twilight 2000 series, is scheduled
for
>reprint from FFE shortly. you can get some info from their website at 
>http://www.farfuture.net/
>
>Also, there are several yahoogroups lists on the subject, of which the
>broadest in scope is:
>2300NonCanon-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>A page of my private links for 2300AD, including a lot of other related
>links but also all the 2300 links I know of, is on my webpage at:
>http://www.kurotokage.org/2300AD/Bookmarks.html
>
>I would be DELIGHTED to see any notes on conversions. With a friend or
>two, we are trying to work up conversions to bring Blue Planet into the
>2300AD universe now...
>
>
>Tomb wrote:
> >
> > Notice the similarity of Kafers and Kra'Vak? Methinks (actually, me
> > knows) that they were a partial model for our favorite Kilo Victor
> > figures.
> >
> > Notice the FSE figures look a lot like Foreign Legion figures in
2300?
> > FCT troops a lot like USMC Marines? :)
> >
> > Notice how the Goliath looks like the US M9 hovertank? Or the Wombat
> > like the German GEV APC? :)
> >
> > 2300 had some great artists and some good concepts. My use of the
Eldar
> > Tempest from Armorcast as Kravak armour is a bit of a play on the
Kafer
> > Deathsled.
> >
> > I have (half written) a set of conversions for all the weapons
(similar
> > to yours) and some rules for doing Kafers (start yellow, gain one
> > quality level per turn until red, etc). Will appear on stargrunt.ca
when
> > life slows down a bit.
> >
> > 2300 AD had almost as neat of a future as GZG (and as likely....).
It
> > too had a "colonial" feel. But it had a really cool starmap (3d
space,
> > imagine that!) and it had a history which had _been_gamed_out_ using
a
> > massive simulation and 20 or so people to determine what the
countries
> > did.
>
>
>=====
>I began to speak of style, of the army of words, of the army in which
>all kinds of weapons may come into play. No iron can stab the heart
with
>such force as a period put just at the right place.
>- Isaac Babel, "Guy de Maupassant"
>=====
>Edward Lipsett
>Intercom, Ltd.
>Fukuoka, Japan
>translation@intercomltd.com
>http://www.intercomltd.com
>Tel: +81-92-712-9120
>Fax: +81-92-712-9220

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