Re: Blue Sky Thinking (was: Re: [GZG] re: Wanted)

["Roger Books" <roger.books@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it sounds like a great idea, with one caveat.

IMNSHO you need to set a time for the playtest list to test and then publish.
I keep hearing great things from the playtest list but have seen nothing new in ages.
I'll take not quite points balanced and a little imperfect if it means I actually see
new games.  If you are going to wait for perfect you might as well not start.
A great product from GZG is good enough for me.

That said I would really like to see BDS.  We have been house ruling K'rvak for far
far too long.

Roger

On 11/1/06, Ground Zero Games <jon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>There are two great games out there for playing company-level games:
>>>Dirtside and Striker.  They've already implemented the changes you
>>>describe.
>
>I've noticed, and fairly often heard comments from others that
>agree, that SG2 as written is at an odd level. A single platoon is
>too small for a good game--not enoughh maneuver units--but a company
>is too big to handle. You're left with games that are "two platoons
>vs a heavily-reinforced platoon" or some such. I think Stuart's
>suggestion gets SG out of the "halfway between the two logical
>command levels" quandry. As such, this is not about "what's the best
>company level game", it's about "tweaks to StarGrunt".
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OK, let's get some opinions from the good people out there in gzg-list-land....

This is completely hypothetical at this stage, but what would folks'
reactions be to the following ideas, at some point in the future when
I actually have time to write some new rules (ha!):

1) A squad to platoon level game with individual figures, more like
FMAS than SGII, for 25/28mm figs, typical force size 1 to 3 squads
per side, plus maybe a vehicle or two.

PLUS....

2) Another system (let's call it SG3 for the sake of argument), aimed
at Company-level games with 15mm figs (useable with 25mm, but with
15mm as the "recommended" scale), with group-based figures (3-4 to a
stand) and platoon-level activation for both infantry and vehicles.

Discuss......  ;-)

Jon (GZG)


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