Re: SGII And Points

Exactly my thoughts.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Connaughton" <ptconn@earthlink.net>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: SGII And Points

> I concurr, absolutely nothing wrong with historicals, in fact much
good
can
> come from them.
> Some of the best sci-fi and fantastic milieu games I've ever played
have
> come from history.
>
> You really should have been there when I participated in a re-creation
of
> Waterloo using NetEpic and all those glorious little epic figures.
> (Wellington was an Eldar and Blucher an ork....... go figure).
>
> Really though, I think that a steady diet of one or the other will one
day
> give you a gaming version of the stomach flu.
> Variety is the way to go; points, historicals, whatever, just have
fun.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pat Connaughton
> E-mail  ptconn@earthlink.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Eldridge" <bob_eldridge@mindspring.com>
> To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: SGII And Points
>
>
> > And what, may I ask, is wrong with playing historical wargames? ;-)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Don M" <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com>
> > To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: SGII And Points
> >
> >
> > > Today I was at the local game store and the topic of SGII came
about.
> No
> > > sooner had said the name did the local GW fan contingent tell me
that
> SGII
> > > "sucks" because it doesn't have a points system.	Even after I
tried
> > explain
> > > Jon's reasoning for this, they told me that GZG doesn't want to
make
> money
> > > because "powergamers and munchkins are the only gamers in the SF
> market."
> > > Without points "you might as well be playing historical wargames."
> > >
> > > I offered that there were a couple very balanced fan created
points
> > systems
> > > available on the web.  That didn't sway them either.  "Tuffley
made a
> > > mistake by not adding a point system, he'll never compete with GW
by
> doing
> > > that."
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > LOL  Mark, You can't save the religiously afflicted.......) That
and
at
> > the
> > > rate of their financial commitment to the Evil Empire, sort of
makes
> > > fantical loyalty logical .........)
> > >
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