Re: [FT] Avalanche's Imperium

I've got it and played it.  Not very impressed.  There are a few good
new
ideas, but too many new bad ideas to make it worth while.  The game is
very
pretty, but game play is slower.  There is no way the un-published four
map
expansion will be playable in it.  A little bit of scant information of
this
expansion was published in Classic Traveller Reprints 5.

I hate the artificial limit of three turns of space combat.

I do like the actions segments.  It's simliar to what GDW did in House
Divided.  Great for game play, but it can be very frustrating.

The counters are nice, as is the map until you actually sit down an
play.  A
flat 2d projection (as in the original) would have been much less
confusing
during game play.

ias