Re: FT: mini purists, "new" weapons

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:08:43 -0500 "Mark A. Siefert" 
<cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> I'll say one good thing about my former FT group (we got a 
brand-spanking-new one put together, and we'll be playing our first 
Fleet Book battle this coming Saturday.), they always had a sense of 
humor about miniatures. I remember one 2000-point game where a player 
took two WWII battleship models and glued airplane wings to them. The 
sad part of it was that these were the only two ships in his fleet. <

What scale were they? I ask as the father of two boys who asked for 
(and got) 1/350 scale battleship kits for Christmas/birthday presents 
so that they could use them in DS2 games (this is called long-range 
fire support! <g>). It's a continuing complaint of at least one of them 
that they don't have any _scale_ ortillery batteries....

I have steadfastly refused to let the elder boy use his modified 
Musashi as an upgraded Space Cruiser Yamato/Argo in FT -- not if it's 
supposed to be in scale with GZG stuff (or at least until I can get my 
hands on one of those 1/250th vacform Enterprise-A's -- 4 feet long!!)

Phil, glad that GCSEs and SATs have temporarily interrupted the local 
arms race
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