Re: Our choice of factions and models for games

>[snipped lots of very valid stuff!]
>
>You can still have flavour in forces, you don't need to say 'only the
NAC
>have PTs' or 'only the French use SMs' or whatever. You can simply set
it
>up so that the standard builds for each faction reflect the various
>higher-level considerations that drive vehicle design. But that
shouldn't
>prohibit exceptions in small numbers.
>
>T.

I don't think I have ever said (or inferred) that the various FT 
human powers don't (almost) all have access to the full spread of 
human technology - I've always tried to be clear that it is doctrinal 
differences that affect the use of certain systems by certain fleets 
in preference to others, not the inability to build certain types.

I do agree with most of what you've written over the last few days, 
Tom, and that is why, for example, I have actively resisted tying any 
of the 15mm vehicle ranges to certain infantry forces - I'd rather 
people chose their own forces, and no-one can then tell them  "you 
can't use that hovertank with NAC troops, it's a NSL design..." (all 
said with that annoying nasal whine, of course!).  ;-)

With the FT fleets, of course, the miniatures are much more 
nation-specific - but that is really a commercial decision. I could 
have made several fleets that looked almost identical apart from some 
minor detail differences (as you point out, this is how real-world 
wet navies appear), but I bet I wouldn't have sold anything like as 
many....  ;-)

Jon (GZG)