Re: Blue Sky Thinking (was: Re: [GZG] re: Wanted)

On 11/2/06, James Moore <jmooreou@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is
> this other F acronym (FASW or something like that) game that everyone
keeps
> mentioning though?

That would be FMAS. It stands for FMA Skirmish (FMA being Full Metal
Anorak, the name given to the opposed die roll system used in SG2, and
-- to a lesser extent -- DS2).

It's a skirmish game that Jon's been working on for... well, I think
the original stuff, fantasy related, came out 1996.

On thinking about it, perhaps the best method _is_ to release FMAS
before some sort of squad level SG2 game. There's a large core of 25mm
SG2 players out there that will feel "left behind" if SG3 is released
as a "figures on bases" game. FMAS is also more than half complete. A
fair bit has been done on it already, it just needed some additional
stuff from Jon and more testing.

That having been said, it's entirely possible that an SG3 with based
figures would take _less_ time to work out than a finished FMAS
product. There's a real niche for this proposed SG3 idea, and -- most
importantly for GZG's financial well being -- SG3 looks like it would
propel a number of sales, more so than FMAS.

Allan

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