Re: SGII And Points

I concurr, absolutely nothing wrong with historicals, in fact much good
can
come from them.
Some of the best sci-fi and fantastic milieu games I've ever played have
come from history.

You really should have been there when I participated in a re-creation
of
Waterloo using NetEpic and all those glorious little epic figures.
(Wellington was an Eldar and Blucher an ork....... go figure).

Really though, I think that a steady diet of one or the other will one
day
give you a gaming version of the stomach flu.
Variety is the way to go; points, historicals, whatever, just have fun.

Thanks

Pat Connaughton
E-mail	ptconn@earthlink.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Eldridge" <bob_eldridge@mindspring.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: SGII And Points

> And what, may I ask, is wrong with playing historical wargames? ;-)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don M" <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com>
> To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: SGII And Points
>
>
> > Today I was at the local game store and the topic of SGII came
about.
No
> > sooner had said the name did the local GW fan contingent tell me
that
SGII
> > "sucks" because it doesn't have a points system.  Even after I tried
> explain
> > Jon's reasoning for this, they told me that GZG doesn't want to make
money
> > because "powergamers and munchkins are the only gamers in the SF
market."
> > Without points "you might as well be playing historical wargames."
> >
> > I offered that there were a couple very balanced fan created points
> systems
> > available on the web.  That didn't sway them either.  "Tuffley made
a
> > mistake by not adding a point system, he'll never compete with GW by
doing
> > that."
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > LOL  Mark, You can't save the religiously afflicted.......) That and
at
> the
> > rate of their financial commitment to the Evil Empire, sort of makes
> > fantical loyalty logical .........)
> >
> >
>
>
>