Re: Rules questions

At the risk of sounding like a complete idiot and neophyte, what the 
heck does FMA stand for? (i'll bet it's something easy to figure out 
like Footsoldiers Marching Around)  I am too lazy to go to the archive 
looking for it...

Chris DeBoe wrote:

>From: Tommy
>
>>I don`t know if you are interested in fantasy wargames, but I want to
play
>>
>fantasy battles with rules based on SGII
>
>SG2 might be okay as a basis for massed battles, but it sounds as if
you'd
>be more interested in FMA Skirmish...
>
>>Do you know anything about publication of FMA? Rules for fighting very
>>
>small battles with dozen or so fighters per side. I know GZG have got
to
>published them in this year. Will it be published or not?
>
>Yes, it will be....eventually. :-)  Jon hasn't mentioned anything (that
I
>know of) about it being published in 2001, though.
>
>>SGII question. Close combat. Don`t you think power armour troops in a
game
>>
>are overpowered in close combat. I have had such a situation in a game.
Four
>power armour troops (Veteran) charged a 13 men Green squad (they were
after
>regrouping). It was a carnage.
>
>Sounds reasonable to me.  PA is supposed to be tough.	Analogy: four
mounted
>knights vs 13 peasants.
>
>>FT questions. About Control Parties. When are Control Parties work.
>>
>
>I've always played at as DCP work after you make your threshold rolls,
so
>you could lose a system but then immediately repair it.  I don't know
that
>that's *correct* but I don't recall playing it any other way.	Mind
you,
>Islamic Fed ships tend to go from "undamaged" to "lost all the armor"
to
>"boom" without any stops for thresholds.
>
>
>

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