Re: New FT Gamer

Excerpts from FT: 26-Jun-96 Re: New FT Gamer by Niko Mikkanen@cute.fi 
> Who doesn't... That and the big battle around B5 are the two most 
> beautiful space battles I've ever seen. The Battle of the Line is a
near 
> third.

What's the Battle of the Line?	[If this is a B5 thing, then no, I
haven't seen much B5.  I'd like to, but I also want to see it more from
the beginning... that's the part that hurts.]

>	  Come to think of it, howzabout us getting together a list of 
> space battles from all the movies we've seen, with approximate
strengths 
> of participants, if possible, and how the battle could be represented
in 
> FT (Like Battle of Yavin, which in FT should be much bigger).

First thought: **Bigger?**

Second thought: Well, OK, so most of SW is fightercraft... but there
were a *lot* of Star Destroyers.  [Of course, once Lucas gets done with
the movie, there'll be a bunch more MonCals, too... ILM is adding them
in, kinda like they're digitizing Jabba and adding a scene between him
and Solo in the first movie.... ^_^ ]

>	  All I can come up with are the SW battles, and some obscure
thing 
[snicker-snack]
> ship... Kinda vague, but it's been years and it wasn't a very good
movie...

Y'know, I've got a feeling I've seen this too, but we're talking 10+
years ago here....

>	  Any others?

Well, the Last Starfighter doesn't work... a bit improbable even for
Silent death, I'd imagine.  Can't think of any others, at least in
filmed movies... Anime, though, has a bunch, as GZG pointed out in More
Thrust.  Gunbuster isn't that good for "organized" actions, as you never
get a fleet composition for the human forces and they tend to get their
butts whupped good anyway.  Haven't seen LoGH, so I can't comment... oh,
Legend of the Galactic Heroes.	Er... there are a bunch of battles with
mecha, if you want to classify them in terms of starships... which, for
some of 'em, wouldn't be far off.  One very nifty scene, in Gundam 0083,
had one of the big suits [can't recall the name, Gato's I think, if
you've seen it] fly up to a destroyer [the suit was considerably
bigger], plant its main cannon on the bridge, and fire.  Very nifty
maneuver. ^_^

Er... other anime space battles... lessee... lots with mecha, of course.
 Fewer with actual ships, or at least large numbers of ships... the end
of Nadia had a nice fight... Irresponsible Captain Tylor might have a
few, but I doubt it... ... ... nope, coming up blank.

Alternate idea: anyone know some naval history?  We could probably come
up with some good battles from WWII... anyone?

		    Aaron Teske
		    Mithramuse+@cmu.edu