RE: [FT] Piquet in Space (was Core Systems)

Is Piquet a published system?  If so, where?  How much does it set you
back?
(Not to intice an advertizement.)

Your discription reminds me of some of the chit/card draw systems I have
seen
for some wargames.
I have played "Across five aprils"  -- an American civil war game that 
has a
very simplied version.
It includes only two types of chits:
   Unit chit -- Each unit has it's own chit.  It moves when drawn.
   Battle chit -- All units attack now.

A good wargame.

Donald Hosford

Piquet is a full blown system - the web page is :

http://www.piquet.com

The rules are heavily based on luck - we've had games where one side had
as 
many as thirty actions before the opponent even moved ( a 20 Vs 1 die
roll goes 
a long way).  There are bizarre events that can occur, such as on the
reload 
card - if you are already loaded, and this card comes up, you can fire
your 
weapons (1 action) then reload (1 action) then fire (1 action) for each
unit 
before you have to flip your card to the next one.  This tends to make
firing 
occur in bursts with very little option to spread fire out.  People tend
to 
conserve fire into huge volleys where many units will get to fire and
then 
reload.  Movement is a bit iffy too since it's possible for the opponent
to 
start at the far edge of the board and close with you without you ever
getting 
a shot.  This is offset if you allow for bonus chips that can be cashed
in for 
extra actions.	At least then you'll get one chance to fire (but you
need 
actions and the appropriate card to reload).  There is an interesting
side to 
this though in that the luck eventually balances out - you just need to
survive 
long enough for the luck to shift your way - which makes designing the
scenario 
important.  There needs to be something that allows a player to hang on
for a 
turn or two of bad luck (extra distance on the map, terrain feature,
mission 
objectives other than destroy the opponent...)

Some thoughts,

--Binhan