Re: Printed works of future combat

Jeremy Claridge wrote:

> > 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.

To which Los replied:

> 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)

But the title is "In Death Ground"...

> 3. Insurrection: The terran federation erupts into civil war.

The main problem with these three is that they describe *Starfire*
combat
rather than *Full Thrust* combat - complete with the strange background
physics used in the Starfire game universe to explain how the ships
could
possibly behave like the Starfire game mechanics suggest. As background
material for Full Thrust I'd consider them suspect, to say the least...
OTOH, their lack of varied plots and interesting characters fits
Jeremy's
wishes perfectly :-)

(Mind you, I do like Weber's books. After all, I use them as background
material in the Starfire design work...) 

The Honor Harrington series, also by Weber (NOT by David Drake as Los
seems to think ;-), use vector movement which fits better into the FT
background. There are some quirks, though - beams being decidedly less
important than missiles, for example. There is at least one Harrington
adaption for Full Thrust on the Page.

Later, 

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com

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