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Re: [GZG] FT: Modern Naval

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:31 +0100
Subject: Re: [GZG] FT: Modern Naval

>  > > 2) The pulse combat model.  FT models WWI
>>  > dreadnought battles decently well. ...
>>
>>  I am not entirely sure that FT models WWI naval
>>  battles very well.	The dreadnought era has too many
>>  really big guns with huge arcs and FT lacks a
>>  mechanism for modelling plunging fire. 
>
>I suppose I should have said: "FT models WWI naval combat a lot better
>than it models modern naval combat." 
>
>I've never tried to directly model WWI in FT, but I know I'd have
gotten
>a lot farther than I did with moderns.
>
>Tom

If you want a simple, quick and most of all fun game of Cold-War era 
naval combat (OK, not really "moderns" now, I know...) then you could 
do a lot worse than pick up an old copy of Seastrike.....  ;-)

Jon (GZG)

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