Re: [FT] Exactly how popular is Full Thrust?

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Richard Kirke wrote:

>> Actually, speaking of the B5 license, I'd love to see a revised EFSB 
>> FT rule set ;-) Tried B5 Wars and gave up - admittedly, 1st Ed. And 
>> Fleet Action had some glitches that needed working out.
>
> Not really a vac head, but I have to say B5 wars is sooooooooo clunky!

> As cool as the B5 background is (ant let's face it, it is) those rules

> just seen to serve to get everything bogged down.

Yup. Read it, hated the mechanics. Wrong end of the scale for me with 
way too much detail.

> Though I did hear a complaint from a B5 Wars devotee that the FT 
> conversion was "too deadly".

<giggle> Like the ships survived easily in combat in the series. 
</giggle>

ISTR that the battle when B5 declared independence ('Severed Dreams'?) 
ended pretty messily and the EA forces only survived because they 
withdrew when the Mimbari arrived. Would have to dig out the video tape 
to check though.

Or the Narn main battle fleet running into the Shadows...

Or the Battle of the Line...

Or the Alliance forces taking out the Shadow-tech Earth Alliance 
ships...

Okay, so I'm sad and I own the whole series and Crusade on video ;-) 
not DVD - curses!

> FT somehow serves to bypass a lot of people's problems with Sci-Fi. 
> Quite why this is so I couldn't guess, but I be that's part of the 
> success

Quick, clean and expandable. Something you can play in 90 minutes. It's 
something we found with PP: Escort - the FT engine means you can fight 
a number of battles with small ships in a few hours. Many of the 
alternative games can take hours more to resolve, even when you *know* 
what the result will be.

Cheers,

Dom

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