Re: What the hell is this? Re: [fh] nac vexilliology

>Well, let me then *disagree*. I don't have much time for playing, so
yet more
>rules for situations I've never run into and won't run into for *years*
(if
>I'm lucky), new weapons when I've not played with the old ones much,
scenarios
>I won't use cuz I've already got a backlog on them,  these juse make
MEGO.
The
>discussion on the NAC vexilliology (and related topics) has been
absolutely
>fasinating. I've been *looking* for the darned posts on this topic,
since the
>others hold no interest for me. The last bit on what colors and whatnot
can be
>superimposed on each other has been a bit off topic, I'll admit, but
most of
>it has been fleshing out the official GZG backround, making it no less
off
>topic than the thread or two about the physiology and psychology of the
>Kra'Vak that ran a few weeks back. I didn't hear anyone else, much less
the
>list admin, complaining back then. 

Not that we want to get into an on-list debate about what should be
on-list... but to add my 2 cents worth - I think it is worthwhile to be
able to discuss things that are not game-specific (rules, scenarios, new
weapons, etc).	I agree with Don here - the discussion on heraldry
(while
getting a bit obscure and off track) was for a while developing ideas
that
could flesh out the universe.  Several of us have been discussing
"things
military" in a more general sense, such as the comparisons between where
things are at now and where they are going in the near future in our
various countries.  These games are military by their nature, and for
those
of us who aren't either amateur military historians or serving members,
investigating what we know and what we think will happen is valuable
when
developing our own histories/campaign settings/TOEs/etc etc.  The
rules/weapons/scenarios don't exist in a vacuum - there is a world of
knowledge around them that isn't GZG specific, but is obviously related
and
relevant.  Is there no place for that here?  In the last week, we've
discussed Snipers, Genetic Engineering, Anthems, Ship Design ideas, FTL
concepts, European Heraldry, etc etc - ALL of which have relevance to
the
games and universe we are collectively creating.

Just to throw in a wrench... in all the discussions about markings and
symbols for the GZG future states, I don't remember much comment about
the
non-Europeans.	We ended up debating the usage of "en-passant", but
nobody
gave thoughts on markings/symbols/flags for the Africans, ESU (?),
Indonesians, etc.
Is this thread totally dead, or does anybody have thoughts.  I'm just
about
to start painting a platoon of ESU troopers, and have been looking for
ideas for vehicle markings, etc....

Any thoughts on either idea here?

Adrian