Re: Starship Troopers

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:14:19 -0500 Indy <kochte@stsci.edu> wrote:

> Jonathan White wrote:

>> Didn't Avalon Hill or someone similar do a board game based on 
the books? Ages ago, mind. <<

> Yes.

> I still have my copy. :-)

Me, too. Not bad as a representation of the book, and with some 
interesting background stuff scattered around the rules -- though I 
still have trouble dealing with a girl/woman with the name Carmen 
Ibanez as a platinum blonde... <B-)

On a point of order, so to speak, the Terran Federation was not 
portrayed as a totalitarian government in the book; it was a democracy, 
but full citizenship and voting rights had to be earned by doing what 
was, in peacetime, a short term of Federal Service, and the military 
was only one of a long list of options. I wouldn't even have said the 
film had that; about the only real indication we get of anything to do 
with the gummint, IIRC, is the News/Propaganda bulletins -- and it is 
wartime. Dunno anything at all about the series.

Still, the mini game might be interesting -- but only if they have the 
PA! MI without their suits just isn't right.

Phil
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