[fma]...actually on topic!

A number of people have been complaining about the increasing
signal-to-noise ratio here, and I've been as guilty as others in that...
so...

Anyone done anything with FMA recently? I saw a bunch of great ECC pics
at
Jerry's site - is anyone planning a proper after-action writeup from an
event they ran or participated in?

Could some of the playtesters let us know what the state of play is
there?
Jon, any (even vague) idea of a date?

We've had a couple of small FMA games here recently - the most recent
saw
my squad of four troopers get mashed by a group of gangers... I had the
weaponry and leadership advantages; Franaine's gangers had very slightly
better quality and a 'home ground' advantage - he set up more of the
scenery than I did!

Things started to come apart for me in the third turn, when Franaine's
only assault rifle - in the hands of his very competent gang leader -
whacked one of my troopers from clear across the table. I had thought I
was safe, but Franaine saw the gaps and rolled well.

The mid-game saw lots of fairly short range and surprisingly ineffective
shotgun and pistol fire over the middle of the table. I dropped one
ganger, lost a second trooper, then a third, then my squad leader, all
alone now, started to fall back. He was charged by the gang's rash but
stupid rookie, who got cut apart by my leader's oversized knife in CC.

Finally Franaine's lady gang leader, with that damned assault rifle,
wasted my guy from well outside CC range while he sheltered behind some
cargo boxes.

We didn't use grenades or anything but firearms and CC weaponry, and we
left out the command & control rules (the 'isolation' one, at least). It
was a fast, tight game, and a lot of fun.

I've got a batch of 25mm troops, civilians, and terrorists on the
painting
table right now, so we'll be able to introduce some more variety into
our
games!

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
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