Re: FIGHTING SHIPS(??)

> From: "Robert S. Dean" [email removed]
> Subject: (1545)  FIGHTING SHIPS(??)
>
> If a few of us got together, we could recreate the entire contents of the book
> (FIGHTING SHIPS(?) that is) in a couple of weeks.  Any takers?

  IMHO, the greatest goof in FSOTSI is that it just is a dry listing of ship
data. The ships have no history, no names, no commanders, no victories, no
defeats, no life, just long listings of how they perform, listings which, to
add injury to insult, also happens to be the largest collections of bugs I've
seen this side of a TI99 'computer'.

  The ships in the old Fighting Ships had names, some of them had stories about
past exploits and tactics. They felt alive.

  So, while I'm interested in participating in the reconstruction, I propose
that we also/ reconstruct the ships from the old Fighting Ships, and, if anyone
has the data on them, the large ship designs that has been published in other
products like Spinward Campaign and so on.

> Rob Dean

- -bertil-