Re: FT III, BIg ships and such.

Gee, I must have the most /un/popular opinion around here; so much so
I dread exposing it.

I'd /like/ to see FTIII be a complete rewrite; so complete a rewrite
that they go from the d6-intensive current system to FMA-style
multi-die-style adjudication.  That would make it /much/ easier, in my
eyes, to interface DSII and SGII.  In fact, that leads to a future
publication, if/when GZG feels it necessary or useful, where the
entire GZG wargame line comes out in one nicely bound book containing
FTIII, DSIII and SGIII, maybe with even an RPG system stuck in there
using the same FMA mechanics (gee, wouldn't it be nice if those were
the rules I'm working on).

Given the unpopularity of changing anything but the smallest fragment
of FT amongst this group, I have to sit back and wonder how its
expected for GZG to stay afloat.  If you folks were in charge, there'd
be neither the excellent DSII nor SGII rules which are far and away
superior to their predecessor.	GZG would have much less money than
the already meager sum that they have at hand now.  A company has to
sell new product to stay a company, and it cannot survive on just a
handfull of suppliments and a small miniatures line, even with
requirements as modest as GZG, not forever.  Jon and Mike have
/never/, in my eyes, shown a mere hint of the GW mentality.  Any
updates and new versions they produce, they do so because they feel
its necessary, not just to gouge the playing public out of a few more
lousy bucks.

I think its vaguely insulting that most of the replies were
implicitive of just such a mindset and hope to my depths that I'm
simply reading more vehemance into them than is actually present.

So, my unpopular view; I'll go crawl back under my stone, now.