A thread of 4 messages, 18 January 1990 to 19 January 1990, in the order they were sent.
Just a rough survey of the game. - -How many people have played it. - -How long did it run? Real time and play time - -Results? - -Any interesting house rules? - -Comments. Ameer Z. Sulaiman All opinions and material above is the responsibility of the originator. Submissions: [email removed], or [email removed] Administrator: [email removed] (James Perkins) The TML is made possible by facilities provided by Tektronix, Inc.
[This came to [email removed], looks like it was meant for [email removed]. Watch those automatic reply headers! -- James] I have played it twice with friends. We played for 6 and 8 hours, approx. 10-12 turns if I remember correctly. We never achieved a decisive outcome, but I think the Imperial side looked good. We tried to play by the book, even the rule that makes TankRons almost impossible to use, unless you sacrifice them. I like it very much, but have too few traveller-fanatic friends. Yngve Larsson All opinions and material above is the responsibility of the originator. Submissions: [email removed], or [email removed] Administrator: [email removed] (James Perkins) The TML is made possible by facilities provided by Tektronix, Inc.
Ameer Z. Sulaiman writes: > Just a rough survey of the game. > -How many people have played it. > -How long did it run? Real time and play time > -Results? > -Any interesting house rules? > -Comments. Two people played. I can't remember how long it took in real time; in game time, I have not seen a game go beyond the second year. And even before then, the Imperium was winning; we extended the game for curiosity, to see what would happen. If it had gone on till 1111, like the "official" version, there would have been no Zhodani presence in the Spinward Marches, with the exception of Riverworld and maybe Cronor. It is just about impossible to do any damage to the immense number of SDB's present there. One rule I tried was to allow scout squadrons to be attacked using the bombardment factor, rather than the attack factor. The assumption was that the attack factor represents major weapons (spinal mounts, and possibly bays); the bombardment factor represents turrets, and maybe bays. It would be these bombardment weapons which would be used against the small scout ships. The real reason was, it seemed stupid when an Imperial scout squadron met a Zhodani scout squadron and all they could do was make rude gestures at each other. The Sword Worlds didn't tend to live long. On turn 6, the Imperials get their Rimward Forces reinforcements. The book says they can be brought in on that turn or any later turn; I bring them all in at once, hopefully with an admiral with plotting factor 0, and they go and flatten the Sword Worlds invaders, followed by the Sword Worlds themselves. There is one Imperial admiral who usually ends up winning the war. He has plotting factor 0, tactical factor +3. Unfortunately for the press who might want to make a hero of him, his name is Goolanzoon. There is a similar Zhodani admiral, but their names all sound weird to us Imperials anyway. By contrast, the two supreme commanders have plotting factor 4, tactical factor -1 - they are a liability to any fleet saddled with them! They usually get dumped on some out of the way world, so no fleet has to visit them and get taken over. "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed] All opinions and material above is the responsibility of the originator. Submissions: [email removed], or [email removed] Administrator: [email removed] (James Perkins) The TML is made possible by facilities provided by Tektronix, Inc.
Just a rough survey of the game. >-How long did it run? Real time and play time I have only played the game a couple of times and both times we never finished. I remember that setup took quite some time. But the rules were fairly simple and easy to play. >-Results? I the beginning if you are the Zhodane, you should have big successes I had invaded Rhylanor very early. But about midgame when the Imps get their regular Batrons in to the area you will have a time of it. As an Imperial, be prepared to lose alot in the beginning. The colonial fleets are to backward to really stand well in line of battle. But once the Coreward fleets get in the picture, be ready to Kick Ass! >-Comments. I really enjoyed it although it took a while to play. As I said earlier I thought that the rules never got in the way of the enjoyment. so although I have never purchased the game, I have considered purchasing the game serveral times. That statement in itself says alot for the game as the only Wargames that I own and play regularly, which means more than once a year, are Wooden Ships and Iron Men, which is my favorite game ever, and Gettysburg, I live less than three hours from the battlefield and have been over it foot by foot hundreds of times. All in all I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I had wished that GDW had come out with a generic large scale wargame for Traveller for those GM's, like myself whose universe was not the Spinward Marches or the Solomani Rim. I had two small space empires that I want to go to war, but designing a Trillion Credit Squadron Game was a bit to large a project and would have taken days to resolve instead of hours. Greg > Ameer Z. Sulaiman - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Givler | Q-Link: GregGivler Analyst - Systems Evaluation Group | CompuServe: Greg Givler 76702,647 Commodore Product Assurance | GEnie: [email removed]ivler [phone removed] | The NET: [email removed] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wild Whores couldn't keep me away!" -- George Francisco "That's Horses, George" -- Matt Sikes -- Alien Nation -- Fox Broadcasting -- =============================================================================== All opinions and material above is the responsibility of the originator. Submissions: [email removed], or [email removed] Administrator: [email removed] (James Perkins) The TML is made possible by facilities provided by Tektronix, Inc.