Re: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

With all those credentials, I think you will fit in here just fine!

Welcome aboard!

Donald Hosford
(Oh yes, feel free to ask about anything...there probably is a "real
expert"
about to answer it!)

DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:

> I AND MY FRIENDS  also use the huge TRAVELLER, super developed
> universe, ,  as well as player designed subsectors using the 
TRAVELLER
> system, as the background (modified) for our science fiction gaming
> since the 1970s.
>
> FOR RULES we have used STARGUARD, STARSHIP MARINE BOARDING ACTION
RULES,
> SPACE MARINE -FGU NOT GW, STRIKER,   STRIKE  FORCE ALPHA, and others
> including SLAMMER and SGII for ground combat and ship boarding
actions.
>
> SPACESHIP AND  STARSHIP , including  lesser spacecraft, combat has
been
> handled with more  rules than  I  can name  here,  including
> -recently-FT.
>
> FIGURES IN use over the  years include 25mm GRENADIER, RP,  STAN
> JOHNSON, HERITAGE MODELS, GARRISON, STAR WARS, ARCHIVE, as well as
28mm
> scale figures in metal and plastic from GW (BIG TIME!), RAFM,  METAL
> MAGIC, DENIZEN, GZG, and other makers.
>
> Pick an alien model and someone probably has it! Ditto for a humans!
>
> We use a lot of  fantasy, Cthulhu,  dinosaurs, and other prehistoric
> animals  /birds for native as well as introduced Earth wildlife on our
> worlds.
>
> ALSO plastic aquatic animals, assorted insects, arachnids, millipedes,
> centipedes and  snakes too.
>
> USING the  TRAVELLER system,	human and alien armed forces run from
> topline to really, really mediocre-bad. Assorted tech levels too.
>
> We have the SPACE PIRATES so beloved of sci-fi too, both human and
> non-human.
>
> SOOO,  some folks  may say we are not "serious" in our gaming as we do
> not stay awake  nights worrying about the latest science breakthroughs
> causing game revisions, we just "soldier on" and have fun.
>
> LOL, after all, playing games and having fun i with friends s what the
> hobby is about to a large extent, with painting, reading, modelling,
> terrain making , making up the  rest.
>
> OOOPS, also, I am a long time gamer (since the  early 70s) who  gmes
> almost  everything from dinosaurs to starships and starship troopers.
>
> Ancient, medieval, science fiction ground and space warfare,	VSF,
19th
> century colonial warfare,  wild  west, RPGing ( TRAVELLER in
particular)
> are  my favorite game genres.
>
> GLAD TO MEET Y"ALL!
>
> DAWGFACE