Re: [OT] Back from SALUTE

Hello Dom,

I was of course referring to the Zhodani/3rd Imperium results. :-)

I'm far too modest to claim a victory in PP against a person who had
only
been playing minutes. All right I forgot the golden rule of
participation
games.

Neil

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Neil,
>
> On Monday, Apr 28, 2003, at 06:51 Europe/London, Neil McGurk wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Well, I was kind of fishing for any news about PP: Fleets.  Were
any
> >> games
> >> of that played?
> >
> > The intention was to have PP:Fleets released at Salute but this has
> > been
> > postponed due to real life happening to Dom, the author, and Andy,
the
> > editor. Dom, who is on this list AFAIK may be able to give you a
> > revised
> > publication date.
>
> Current realistic first feelings are 3-4 months, depending on both
Andy
> and my jobs (forex I was in work for 12+ hours today and am doing more
> here at home (or would be if I hadn't downloaded the last 3 days
> email)).
>
> Cover artwork is in final stages - text is pretty much there and is
> being laid out by Andy, I'm now working on graphics for the SSDs.
>
> > We didn't play any games of PP:Fleets at Salute. We ran three games
of
> > PP:Escorts as participations games. Each game was the scenario 'A
Good
> > Clean
> > Fight' from the PP:Escorts rulebook. I can't remember the results of
> > any of
> > the games, sorry.
>
> First game had the young kid and his dad, plus another chap, and was
> pretty close with nuclear oblivion.
> 2nd Game had two fleets charge to point blank and have one ship left
on
> each side, each mission killed with damaged bridge, the victory going
> to the player with  the slowest vector who stayed on the board
longest.
> 3rd game 'Let the Wookie Win' went to the wire and nearly ended up
with
> you winning. ISTR that of the 7 ships in the battle, 5 were lost in
one
> turn from missile swarms overwhelming the point defenses
simultaneously.
>
> That jog your memory ;-)
>
> Dom
>
>
>
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>
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