Re: [FT]: Campaign Recommendation???

Indy wrote:

>Dark Nebula, Traveller, and other campaign games mentioned thus far I
>have not played.

Dark Nebula uses essentially the same game engine as Imperium, but with 
different ships, different economics and different maps.

>Starfire, Imperial Starfire, and its subsequent incarnations were fun,
>but the campaign stuff was hideously paper-heavy. I tried several games
>because I *really* liked the system, but always got bogged down in the
>paper. I haven't had an opportunity to play the latest version of this
>game. Oerjan could give you a detailed blow-by-blow of the system,
>though, as he is one of the design team.  ;-)

The latest version (Galactic Starfire) cut away massive chunks of
campaign 
paperwork, but there's still a fair deal left of it (keeping track of
the 
damage status of all your spaceships, for example... though the days
when 
even smallish empires could field fleets hundreds of superdreadnoughts
and 
thousands of escorts are, mercifully, gone!).

The previous version (3rd edition Revised/Imperial Starfire) has a
computer 
campaign handler called "Starfire Assistant" (by Steve Walmsley) which
is 
said to be very good, but I never managed to get the hang of all details
in 
the user interface :-( Without computer support you had to be *really* 
dedicated to finish a 3rdR/ISF campaign :-/

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."