Re: Re: [GZG] Revised Salvo Missiles Update

From: "James Hiegel"
> The strength of FT is its generic structure (most new players are 
> surprised that you can design your own ship) and its simplicity (I can

> teach a brand new player how to play in less time that it takes to
play a 
> 1000pt Warhammer 40K game).

I agree--see http://mysite.verizon.net/laserlight/ft_lite.pdf for my 
one-page introduction to Full Thrust. However, simplicity can be taken
too 
far--you want your game to simulate reality, even if it's just an
imagined 
reality. If it doesn't do that, you might as well just just flip a coin
to 
decide who wins instead of going to all the time and trouble to set up a
bad 
game. (I'm thinking of a Napoleonic naval game whose rules made it well
nigh 
impossible to use a line of battle--just the opposite of what you'd
expect). 

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