Re: Printed works of future combat

I also recomend "Aliens and Allies"by Robert McBride Allen (very GDW
2300ish,but some realy funky starships designs, and a good argument
aginst
capital ships...

Darryl

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From: Los <los@cris.com>
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
Date: Friday, 14 August 1998 0:28
Subject: Re: Printed works of future combat

>Pick up David Weber's Starfire stuff. It's my favorite, and is
>intimately about ship combat (And some ground combat), both staregic
and
>tactical. The books are:
>
>1.Crusade: A influenced by a human that had violated their prime
>directive 100 years earlier returns to human space in an attemptto
>liberate EARTH in the name of Holy Mother terra.
>
>2.On Deadly Ground: The known universe faces it's most deadly threat
>from an arachnid like race. (My favorite)
>
>3. Insurrection: The terran federation erupts into civil war.
>
>As far as ground combat. besides the Standard SST, Halderman, and
>Hammer's Slammers.
>
>1. John Steakley: Armor.  This is kind of a weird book. The beginning
>and end of the book cover some pretty good ground SST-like combat, but
>the middle has a completely seperate story which many might find an
>annoying diversion.
>
>2. John Dalmas: The Regiment, The White Regiment, and the Regiment's
>War. Three excellently written books by a former grunt. It's about a
>mercenary regiment and their combat in the far future. Very well done.
>
>Anyway that's a few for now.
>
>Los
>
>
>Also, Drake's Honor Harrington series has cool ship combat for which
>there is a FT conversion.
>
>jeremy claridge wrote:
>
>> Hello people
>>
>> Can anyone let me know of any books with either Full Thurst ship to
>> ship combat or DS2 style combat. I've read some Hammers Slammers
>> stuff and was just wondering what else existed.
>> Please bear in mind I'm looking for background material and written
>> examples of how authors see space and future ground combat.
>> So I'm not into character interaction and complicated plots. I'm
>> looking for detailed descriptions of combat and tactics.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> (you can mention any books, working for a london university library
>> service does give me more scope to obtaining rare books.)
>>
>> ----------------------
>> jeremy claridge
>> jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk
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