Re: rules cheat sheet was Re: Mobile infantry in SG2

The really scary thing is comparing Jon Tuffley's rules writing with, 
oh say anybody from AOG...

Night and day.

Although I have a certain fondness for the style of the young Steve 
Cole, say Starfire 1st ed era.

At 8:36 PM -0600 12/6/00, Joseph Arnold wrote:
>Touche. However I did have the caveat "that I've played." I've never
played
>DB Anything, saw too much text in the rulebooks, and let's face it, who
>wants to read all that :P. I guess my main complaint with the GZG books
is
>they are a little bit hard to navigate. I do appreciate the little grey
>boxes with the core rule nuggets, but it is sometimes hard to find the
exact
>rule I need during a game. Admittedly, I don't play as often as some on
the
>list, so the books aren't second nature to me. Plus, I haven't even
cracked
>my book since getting back into college. Let's just say some of the
rules
>seem to be placed wierdly (at least to me).
>Jay
>
>
>----------
>>From: Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca>
>>To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>>Subject: Re: rules cheat sheet was Re: Mobile infantry in SG2
>>Date: Wed, Dec 6, 2000, 8:17 PM
>>
>
>>  On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 20:00:50 -0600, "Joseph Arnold" 
>><jdarnold@siu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>Praise be to Jah! Don't get me wrong, I love the GZG systems, but
they are
>>>just about the most user-unfriendly rulebooks ever made for wargames
(at
>>>least for games I've played). A useful index/concordance is long
overdue.
>>
>>  Uh... no they're not. *L*
>>
>>  First off, SG2 makes a sort of weird semblance of sense once 
>>you've used it a
>>  bit. The trick is that you REALLY have to pay attention to the
section
>>  headings at the very top of the pages.
>>
>>  Second, Jon can actually write in literate sentences. Try reading
Phil
>>  Barker's DBA or DBM rules sometime. Particularly the earlier
editions.
>>
>>  Third, those boxes with the shortcuts to the rules are a good
addition. You
>>  should see some of the old SPI rule books where they spent a couple
of
>>  paragraphs defining polyhedral dice!!! *shudder*
>>
>>  I guess what everyone's saying is that if I find myself in a 
>>masochistic mood
>>  soon, an index of SG2 would be... desired?
>>
>>
>>  Allan Goodall		   awg@sympatico.ca
>>  Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall
>>
>>  "Surprisingly, when you throw two naked women with sex
>>  toys into a living room full of drunken men, things
>>  always go bad." - Kyle Baker, "You Are Here"

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> And plenty of scrap in the world to make your own. When I said
the stuff I
> was carving was difficult to KEEP symmetric, that was a hint.
>
> The_Beast

I did notice.  But I bought a batch of ships in April.	Some of
them are mostly painted now, some of them I'm hoping to assemble
some time soon.