Re: EFSB

I'm going to have to throw in my piece here.  

I began playing wargames with SFB when I was about fourteen.  I played
for
about two years until I realised how much dough I'd dumped on the game
so
far, and how many rules upon rules were piling up.  Got out of it.  Had
some brief affairs with land combat games, like 40K (Urgh!) before I
discovered FT and SG and DS.  Now, I have owned B5W at one time.  I only
had to glimpse at the rules, the SSD-style ship sheets, and the Megahex
copy maps to know what system had influenced AoG in the making. 
Needless
to say, I unloaded that game like a hot potato.  I then picked up the
EFSB.  This is exactly what I wanted.  An easy, realistic, quick,
satisfying game, fully compatible with FT and one of my favourite
background settings: B5.  You can bet that I'll buy the B5W minis,
though,
as I think someone else has already mentioned. . . 

GZG's systems are some of the very best on the market.	Simple,
playable,
with minimal record-keeping, high realism, a totally engaging background
of their own, but also totally convertible, and AFFORDABLE.  For a
student
like myself, this is key.  A company out to make a good game without
screwing the gamers on the receiving end gets my vote every day of the
week and twice on Sunday.  So far, GZG and DP9 top the list.

Hats off to Jon, and Mike for their excellent work.  Here you have a
gamer
for life.

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