[FT] FB vs Homegrown designs Re: RE: RE: Limits on armour? and Full Steam

Which can be attributed, in part, to the lack of AAR's you're getting
from
others. ;->=

I'd have to say people who don't play regularly are going to use canned
fleets. When we did play regularly, we kept to FB fleets, though we
occasionally did the test bed here and there.

The_Beast

Chris wrote on 07/07/2006 10:54:26 AM:

> >From: "McCarthy, Tom (xwave)"
>
> > Apparently, my group's use of FB1 designs is purely an
> anomaly.  If the list population is to be taken as
> typical, most players of the game design their own ships
> and do not use FB designs or limit themselves to the
> design doctrines illustrated by the FT powers in the FB books.
>
> I almost never set two FB1 fleets against each other.
> Usually we have UN, IF, or ORC as one of the belligerents;
> the other side might be one of those, or ESU or NSL, or a
> custom fleet.