Re: [MISC] [OT] Bring and Battle

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>>As an aside, having said that, I'm sure many WH40K players will be
>>quite amazed by what I here is in the new version of the rules....
>>sounds like they basically stole (okay, independently developed?) a
>>bunch of conceptual ideas and systems that sound *perilously* close
>>to those used in FMA and the focus of FMA systems like Stargrunt. It
>>will be interesting to see how this hits the WH40K community....
>>
>>(And I guess, like those Microsoft has 'borrowed' ideas from, Jon T
>>should be complemented that GW is 'learning' from him.....)

Tony Christney said:
>Quite frankly, I'd be pissed! GW has sued so many companies for
>'stealing' their 'ideas', it would be nice to see them leave themselves
>wide open to get as good as they give...

Being on  good terms with the 're-engineers' of WH40k v3 I think I can
safely say that FMA (as excellent as it is) has had no influence on the
new
design, it evolved quite independantly.

Regards.......Roger