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Re: Earthforce Sourcebook Question for Jon

From: agoodall@s... (Allan Goodall)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 01:00:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Earthforce Sourcebook Question for Jon

On Tue, 03 Feb 1998 15:32:07 -0500, "Imre A. Szabo"
<ias@sprintmail.com> wrote:

>The big problem I have is that I don't see this "sudden evasion
>maneuvering" happening in Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the
>Jedi, Battlestar Galatica, Robotech, Starblazers, or Babylon 5.

This is, in fact, one of the neat things about FT and FT players. Play
it the way you want. I can see your point. In a game where fighters
are all powerful (Star Wars, B5), moving fighters after starships may
feel better for the genre. In Jon's own background, moving the
fighters first may feel better.

I personally prefer fighters moving first as it adds a tactical
complexity without adding a rules complexity. I like it and find it
fun. On the other hand, the fighters in B5 seem to be able to vector
right onto the capital ships without any problems, so I can see your
point about having them move second.

I'd probably keep the B5 rules as written (not as Jon intended) to
more closely mimic B5's fighters. However, in games with my own
backgrounds I'd use the MT rules.

The fighter movement issue is the closest thing I've seen to a "holy
war" with regard to FT. I met a few people at GenCon this year that
grumbled about placing fighter movement before ship movement. It
didn't stop them from playing OR having a good time...

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

"Once again, the half time score, 
 Alien Overlords: 142,000. Scotland: zip."
  - This Hour Has 22 Minutes


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