Re: [GZG] PAU Miniatures

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Honestly--I'd like to see a full line of PAU ships. After all the Fleet
Book says "Five
built-to-order Rostovs were exported to the Pan African Union between
2178 and 79, to form the major battleline strength of the PAU's
rapidly-expanding and modernising navy..."

      Rapidly-expanding and modernising navy implies to me at least
that the ship purchases were to build up a fleet more quickly and so the
PAU can and is building its own ships at the same time as its purchasing
ships from nearby powers, certainly there's a historical precedent for
that. Not to mention of course, that a full PAU line would be another
fleet for GZG to sell.

      I suppose I should say I'm grateful there even IS a PAU in
this background. Too often in science fiction, people forget about
Africa altogether or treat it like some permanent third-world quagmire.
The only other place I've seen anything close is the Nigerian starship
in the BBC series Hyperdrive (a really fun episode of a great series by
the way).

     James!

--- On Sat, 4/23/11, Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com>
Subject: [GZG]	PAU Miniatures
To: Gzg-l@mail.csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 5:50 PM

I believe what James is suggesting is that there might be a business
opportunity in selling a line of PAU ships. Even a small line, like FCT
or OUDF, but a line nonetheless. 

Heck, the IF got a fleet and arguably the PAU should be at least as good
as the IF! 

The ORCs got a fleet, and they are a bunch of Colonial rubbish...
<spoken with a snooty NAC accent>

I'm all for some PAU ships. 

And I guess 15mm PAU too, since there were really decent 25mm PAU. 

Tom