|
Ok,bear {grrrrrr] with me what does FMA stand for,
is it full metal anorak.
Well Jon as I'm only a player,{ yer that's right
I'm a player my bling bling is 28mm metal dogg} lol and figure collector
and modeller of your great figures, and every period of history you can imagine,
All I can say is just finding the time to do the above is hard enough these
day's, but if your stuck in a rut and need motivation then get out and game,
what's the point in making great figures and rules if you don't feed the sixteen
yr old within us all!! { bugger he's out}
So if you need some help with FMA and gaming input
then, get your group together and game, a good gaming group relieves stress a
bad one causes it.lol{ god I'm stressed}
And GW have there new APOCPURSE{joke } for 3000 pts
to 10000 pts out soon, funny thing though over here in oz we got a 10 to 14 %
price rise this month and a new 40k system where we need a minimum of
the above for forces.
So if you do ever release FMA for sale then put me
down for 6 copies, cause if it's half as good, or even half as fun
as your other systems that my group have been gaming with over the last
decade then, it would be time and money well spent.
gaming periodical time table
12 to 18 when I had the time, I never had
the money.
19 to 24 now that I have the money, I have no
time.
25 to 40 now I'm married and have no time and no
money
40 to 45 when I had all of the above I had my eye
sight
46 to 65 now I have no eyesight.but I have
grandchildren.
65 to 80 now that I have all these figures, and my
grandchildren sell my figures for model trains.
80 to death, I'm napoleon
Death, now that I'm in heaven, Jesus is a 40k
player, but he's dead easy to beat.{ but aren't they all}lol sorry
lord.
regards james mitchell
p.s we need rain very very badly.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:17
PM
Subject: [GZG] Fwd:[from Jon T] FT
Screens & FMA (was:Re: FMA Quest)
Gang,
Jon is suddenly experiencing interference from the
Phalons in posting to the list, so I'm forwarding on a couple of replies from
him on a couple threads. So, read on!
Mk
---------- Forwarded
message ----------
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sep 14, 2007 3:27
AM
.........................
1) On FMAS:
>I
can tell you that the test list does have it, and there are a
>certain
select few members on the test list that have the latest
>version of the
rules. Which people they are, I don't know (the last
>version I have is
now several years old (2004), and I *think* Jon is
>going in a slightly
different direction now with them). And I've
>heard no progress reports
from them through the test list of late,
>either (then again, iIve been
rather embroiled with FT3 testing ;-)
>).
>
>It's in the
queue. I don't know where in the queue, but it's in
there.
>
>Mk
>
>On 9/12/07, Evyn MacDude
<<mailto: infojunky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>infojunky@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>
>On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Damo
wrote:
>
>>
>On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Evyn MacDude
wrote:
>
>>The TMP has asked, any body have a status
report
>about FMA?
>.....................
I suppose I'd
better answer this, even if it does open a huge can of
wormsŠ. ;-)
Yes,
FMA(S) exists, in various forms.
Yes, it's been sort of "under development"
pretty much since I
published Stargrunt II, which is just over 10 years
ago.
Yes, I do PLAN to finish it (or at least get it to a web-publishable
stage) at some point.
No, I don't know when that time will be.
There
are (as has been mentioned) various versions of the system
posted in
various places, some public and some limited access; most
of these versions
are fragmentary and incomplete, some contain ideas
which have only seen
very limited playtesting and may or may not
work. It is because the game is
still in this very unfinalised state
that I've never done a "proper" public
beta test release.
The bottom line is that FMAS will only ever be more a
labour of love
than a commercial product to me. I WANT to get it finished
because I
like the system, I think it works very well and deserves to be
used
(and those folks who have tried it - in its various
incarnations-
seem to agree).
25/28mm skirmish games are a crowded
marketplace at the moment, and
with our (GZG's) current emphasis on the
15mm and Starship ranges
I'm afraid FMAS keeps getting put back onto the
"pending" pile;
every now and then I drag it out, add a few new ideas (and
sometimes
decide they're not as good as what I had before, so throw them
out
again), and then it goes on the back burner again as something
more
urgent screams for attention.
I'd love to be able to say that it'll
be out by Christmas, or next
year, or next decadeŠ. but I can't. It'll
happen when and if I get
the spare time to do what needs to be done with
it.
My apologies to anyone who's emailed to ask about it and not got
a
reply; I TRY to reply to most mails, but I don't always manage it
with
the volume of mail I have to wade through, and if I don't
answer one
immediately it can get buried by the deluge of stuff
following behind it.
:-/
Jon (GZG)
.......................
2) On FT
Screens:
>One way or another, I just don't like the whole PSB behind
human
>screens in this game. What self-respecting military
mind designs a
>defensive system that completely overlooks pretty much
all the most
>devastating weapons both your own and every other species
has ever
>designed and then invests 5 or 10% of their warships' mass in
it,
>which basically all comes out of the ship's weapons
payload? Neat,
>so you reduce the damage from one particular
limited class of
>weapons by 20-30%, do absolutely nothing against all
the others, and
>in the mean time your own firepower is reduced by 25%
or so in
>return. Awesome plan.
The simple, and
honest, reason is that it comes from the very early
days of FT (the game
itself, not the timeline...) when beams were
pretty much all that were used
on most ships (apart from the
occasional PT or SMP as very "specialised
weapons").
Of course, since then the expansion of the game has added
missiles,
K-guns, Grasers and all the rest; so yes, screens are no
longer
anything like as generally useful as they originally were,
depending
of course on who you are fighting. :-/
Jon
(GZG)
........................
_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing
list
Gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://mead.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l
|