Re: Gorn ship for SFB

At 10:06 AM 4/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>>	  Okay, here's another appeal for help....  Does anyone know of
a book
>>or a web site that would have pictures of some of the ships from Star
Fleet
>>Battles?
>
>There are a couple of places that you can look for this sort of thing.
>Try going to John Kim's Unofficial Star Fleet Battles Home Page,
>http://www-e815.fnal.gov/~jhkim/fun/sfb.html.	From there you
>can go to the SFB Miniatures page of Battlegroup Ithaca on which
>you can see a bunch of the minis.  You can also go from John Kim's
>page to Derrick Kong's SFB page, which has "scans of product covers."
>The product covers feature various ships.  The Gorn BC is on the cover
>of module P6, for example.
>
>>I have these figures that are, I think, Gorn Heavy Cruisers from
>>the days when Fasa was responsable for the figures.  I think; I've had
these
>>guys for a while.  I ran across tehm the other day, and realized that
they
>>would be perfect for Assault Landers for DSII.  Each one is about the
proper
>>size to hold four or five medium tanks.  The problem is this: the
ships look
>>like bricks with a sloped front,
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>>like this.  Each one has a pair of wings and a pair of what I assume
to be
>>warp nacelles as well.
>
>Sounds like you have Orion pirate ships to me, but I've been wrong
before.
>
>
>Good hunting,
>
>Robert Schirmer
>schirmer@focus.aep.cornell.edu
>
I think the confusion here results from different gaming systems.  The
FASA
Gorn ships look like flying bricks; the FASA Orion pirates look like
fast,
graceful ships (I always thought the Blockade Runner looked more like a
pleasure yacht).  Conversely, in SFB, the Orions are the ones with the
brick like ships, and the Gorns have the more rounded (multiple saucer)
look.

Hope this helps,

Tre