Re: FMAS names

On Mon, 19 February 2001, "Barclay, Tom" wrote:

> Combat Drop
> -- Drop Troops was a BT supplement. And the game is supposed to cover
> man-2-man skirmish not planetary assaults (like Prefect from RL). 

As I mentioned, it's also a Canadian Wargamers' rule and scenario book
for WW2.
 
> Combat Team
> -- Visions of Harold Coyle or Tom Clancy...

Yeah. How about "Team Tuffley"? *L* (Just a little joke... At GenCon,
Jeff Guillion used to run generic SG2 games under the title "Strike
Force Tuffley".
 
> Sharp Edge
> -- Prefer "Sharp End" myself 

"Sharp End" is a little too Drake for me. As I mentioned earlier, it
could run Jon into trademarking issues. 
 
> Man Down
> -- Like it! (It describes what happens most of the time...)

And what gets yelled when my female Japanese mercs get shot? "Sentient
Down"? "Sapient Down"? How about "Trooper Down"? Again, not very
sci-fi... "Bug Down"? *L* 
 
> Weapons Free
> -- This (for me) conjures a more naval image... or air force...

Air force for me...
 
> Hostile Contact! 

Sounds aircraft/spacecraft to me. There's a similar sounding World War I
aircraft miniatures game.
 
> Rapid Fire! 

Been done. World War II miniatures game. Grand tactical level, I think.
Fairly well known.

> Go To Ground

Hmm. Not bad. I thought of "In Position" but thought it was too generic.
 
> Shots Fired!

Sounds like a police game! "1 Adam-12. Shots fired. See the man at the
corner of Wilshire and Hollywood." (I think I just showed, a) my
ignorance of LA geography, and b) my age!)
 
> As for the idea of calling it Stargrunt:.... , I don't think that's so
wise.
> It isn't Stargrunt. It's an FMA game. If you wanted to use that style
of
> branding, use FMA:SG3 and FMA:<whatever our skirmish is> as the
> identifiers... FMA is the system. Not Stargrunt. 

Except that most people outside of this list haven't clued into the FMA
thing. You look on Usenet and people know "Stargrunt". Same with game
conventions. They don't know FMA. 

I'm not necessarily advocating it, though. Just threw it out as another
course of action.

Allan Goodall - agoodall@canada.com
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