Re: Wraithships, was RE: FT3?

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Aaron P Teske wrote:

> 
> I suppose this'd be a good time to announce that I've gotten the
> advanced rules for Space Fleet up on my page, for those who're
> interested.  I'm still missing GW's suggested scenarios & battle
> honours, but those should be up in a week or so.
> 
> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/at2u/sfleet.html

Should have said this ages ago, but: Great Work!
However, are the basic rules still there somewhere (ie, where they 
explain how to use the targetting tray <g>)? I couldn't see'em last time

I looked (but then I'm a lousy searcher :/)

> 
> Now back to our regular message....
> 
> Excerpts from FT: 1-Oct-96 Wraithships, was RE: FT3? by Oerjan
> Ohlson@nada.kth.s 
> > >	      Cool. But what's a wraithship?
> >  
> > Large Eldar ether-sail starship (from GWs Space Fleet line). 
> 
> For those who're interested in the GW ships line, I also point out
that
> there *is* a larger Eldar ship, the Ghost Dragon.  Unfortunately, I
> don't know if they ever did anything in terms of modelling the sucker.
> <sigh>

Don't think so - GWUK Mail Order don't have it, so it was probably never

put to production. A prototype was made, and there is at least one 
picture of it... but nothing more :(

> >It looks 
> > somewhat similar to a Mimbari cruiser with sails... There are
pictures of 
> > all but one of the Space Fleet models at Aaron Teske's Space Fleet
pages 
> > (just follow the links from Mark's FT page).
> 
> Incidentally, the one model missing is the Stalwart Escort vessul,
which
> has a picture that looks like it should be for the Goliath Factroy
Ship.
>  Which is probably why I keep forgetting to re-scan the sucker.  (My
> first attempt had errors, for some reason.)  Basically, it's a dinky
> little oval ship with a couple engines and some superstructure detail.

> Not bad, really, but also not impressive.

Very small - I use it as a corvette; it seems to mass about the same as 
my NSL corvettes anyway.

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson

"Father, what is wrong?"
"My shoes are too tight. But it does not matter, because
 I have forgotten how to dance."
- Londo Mollari