Re: SG:AC discussions (was: Official - More re GZG news update - NEW RELEASES!)

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Damond Walker <damosan@gmail.com>
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> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Roger Bell_West
<roger@firedrake.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Really? I thought "the rules are basically Warhammer" was the
> > principal reason for its success: a simple system that people know.
> >
> >
> Folks throw that description around for any system that uses buckets
of
> dice to hit/damage/save.  Folks used to say that FOW was successful
because
> it was Warhammer WW2 (perhaps they still do?).  I always found FOW to
be
> much more subtle than anything in the Warhammer line.  That said FOW
> certainly shared the IGOUGO move-shoot-assault model.
>

I think the Glen Burnie group you are familiar with still describes FoW
to
newbies in terms of Warhammer.	 :-/

Mk