Re: Asteroid combat [was Re: Planet types]

At 14:52 01/12/98 +0000, you wrote:
>There was a good article recently in one of the UK wargamers magazines
(can't
>remember which) about gaming on the surface of an asteroid. The basic
premise was
>to assume that the asteroid was a rough cube, and thus could be
represented on the
>tabletop by six equal-sized square areas - one for each face of the
cube.
By moving
>off the edge of one face you come on at the matching edge of an
adjacent
face. IIRC
>there were rules for firing at units which were close (within 2") of
the
edge of an
>adjacent face, which presumably would gain hull-down cover or similar.
We're very
>tempted to use this as the basis of a show game next year.

	This sounds very close to what a friend of mind came up with (or
claimed
to) to do "Forever War" type senario in SGII. Knowing his reading habits
the magazine would be "Practical Wargamer" probably early this year. I
have
a copy of the senario if anyone is interested. Drop a private email and
I'll send it out.

	Tony.
	twilko@ozemail.com.au