RE: simple rules for non-gamers

LOW COST LOW MAINTENNCE START UP GAMES.

EVERY kid i know  that has seen  STARSHIP TROOPERS, ALIENS, STAR WARS,
or played a  video game with a	sci-fi us vs nasties from outer space
game is sue to like a game where in they can be eroic humans or nasty
BEMs using miniatures and simple rules.

a very simple, fast play, FUN set of FREE SCI FI ground combat	rules
that i have introduced man kids too, is  a set from the free wargmes
rules  site, by PETE JONES.  these are titled "IS THIS ANOTHER BUGHUNT?"
the basic rules are for both players to command  squads of USCMC vs dice
generated BEMs, so there is no chance of  kinter angst (TOMMY KILLED MY
GUYS!".

soldiers on the  cheap can be bought from EM-4 miniatures in the UK, in
the form of nice looking and sturdy mid tech (ala USCMC) plastic
infantry armed with rifles, grenade launchers, machineguns, flamers,
etc, as well as command and commo troops.

plastic gangers can also be bought  to represent  lightly armed colonial
civvies under attack, too.

the android, can b easily made	by painting a soldier  differently from
the  rest,  ditto a medic. 

these  figures are clean on the sprue, and after washing can be easily
assemble using TESTORs plastic glue or similiar model cement.	they are
easy to paint, too.

BEMS   can be had on the  cheap too.   plastic realistically colored
bugs of ssorted types and size are available from the www as well as
variety/magic stores.  big bags are CHEAP!!!!!

terrain is also cheap.	basic game  takes place inside a spacecraft or
ground installation over run by aliens with the USCMC rescue party going
in to do what they can do.

sooo, different colored  sections of craft paper like the stuff used in
schools can be	cut out, in the shape of coridors and rooms, dployed,
and the kids turned loose to  see what they can see . . .

make no mistake! these rules are fun for adults to game as well -among
frinds or at conventions!

DAWGIE