Re: How to put a Tegethoff dreadnought together?

>Sorry to hear that - sadly, it just reinforces the reasons why we're
>supplying everything direct at the moment....	:-/

As we across the briney have stated, sad words indeed. Understandable,
but
you have a counter experience in Oz, right?

However, if/when FT III is born, I hope you can let some of the more
loyal
folks by in small bulk packages and rates. While the books proudly
proclaim
that special figs are not required, we all know the books SELL the figs.

On the the NSL SDN/Fleet carrier, if you look back into the archives, I
think you will find long discussions on how the things are supposed to
go
together. I think this may be one clue that there were a lot of
undiagnosed
production problems. I know everyone I saw put together took a lot of
green
stuff.

In this case, I never saw a good one.

Someday, I'll have to order one and an ESU super heavy direct to see the
difference.

***
But to get back to the point - I'd only buy a von Tegetthoff because I
thought it _looked_ good, not because I wanted to put one on the table
and needed the "right" miniature - the people I play with would (I think
rightly) think of that as Games-Workshop-syndrome(...)
***

However, a very POWERFUL syndrome, and ignored at peril.

On the side topic of how I got into gaming, I'd have to say Risk started
me
thinking even approximately militarily on the table, though occasionally
having green soldiers and tanks meeting bb guns and small explosives on
the
4th of July (in the Commonwealth, George III's Day of Shame...) are
amongst
my earliest, fond memories, while people trying to get me to enjoy AH,
beginning with Afrika Corps and Blitzkrieg, kept interested.

Zocchi's Star Fleet Battle Manual game showed me my love of naval-based
sci-fi could show in games, and SPI with StarForce and StarSoldier gave
me
a sophistication that blew me away at the time.

The books mentioned, and brief flings with PanzerBlitz/Leader, Star
Fleet
Battles, and others, came later.

The_Beast