Re: FB2 Status???

>Could someone please let me know the status of FB2 development?  I've
>have been swamped with work and to top it off had some water damage
>in my home resulting in downtime for about two weeks.	It's a little
>hard to catch up on all the email traffic and I realy wanted to get
>back in quick.

Done, finished and on sale! The US copies will be shipping over very
soon now.

Jon (GZG)
>
>I had done considerable playtesting with the new Kra'Vak and Sa'Vasku
>rules and wanted to post the details, but wonder if it's valid
>anymore.  In any case, all went well and everyone seemed to enjoy the
>new rules and found them to be quite balanced.  We liked the way the
>Kra'Vak played a lot better, but still found the best defense with
>human ships was using vector movement and plenty of missiles.	When
>we tried using beam ships and cinematic movement, the Kra'Vak won
>everytime.  The game can be balanced with equal point fleets as long
>as you design the non-Kra'Vak fleet to meet the threat.  This seemed
>as a  logical progression during a war to better deal with an enemy
>threat.  Again, we liked it.
>
>An interesting note: I had some Warhammer 40K players try out the FT
>games as playtesters and they loved FT!  In fact everytime I show up
>at the store now they ask me when I will run the next FT game.
>During one FT playtest they attended, another WH40K player kept
>bugging them to stop playing FT and play WH40K instead.  They told
>the guy to go blow and said they rather play FT.
>
>Mike