Re: FSE

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> 
> Warhound wrote:
> 
> >Yeah the similarieties are in concepts .. there are weapons
batteries, Nova
> >Cannons and other such things such as the due to scale the ship is a
> >representation and the centre of the base is really the ship ...
there are
> >other things as I read through FT that I thought I have read this
before
> >somewhere 8)
> 
> Weapon batteries are used in several fleet action/capital ship space
combat
> games, not just Full Thrust and BFG - it is simply easier to bunch the
> weapons together instead of resolving each one separately.

Some of these ideas have been commonplace in wet naval games for
the last century or so, I'd guess. It's hard to imagine that SF
naval games aren't a little inspired by historical gaming.

Digressing from Full Thrust, I read that Fred Jane's Naval Wargame
(late nineteenth century) rated warship armour as D-, C-, B-, A-,
AA- and AAA-class... when I first read this I thought "that's very
familiar... that's exactly how Dirtside rates tank armour" (first
edition Dirtside, that is). I Don't know if Fred used miniatures,
but his self-publishing effort should be something of an
inspiration to later wargamers.

-- 
David Brewer

"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific 
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of 
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)