Re: First Battle type Boardgame?

miniatures games for the past two years.  It is easy to do just convert
pick a number for the hex size and convert ranges and movement by that.
The rules are simple and fast to learn.  We used these last January and
predicted that outcome of Desert Storm (with the exception of percent of
U.S. casualties i.e. in the games there were some).  I think they would
be an excellent for use in Traveller.  As for publication you could always
try it as a article in Challenge.
   Command Decision should be easier to port (since you have a Panther to
start from), but I would suggest you wait until the revised edition comes
out later this year since there will be a number of rules revisions.
(The basic system will be the same, but after playing these for 10 years
we have found a number of better ways to do things).  In fact I just
spent the weekend in Bloomington as part of the rules revision committe
playtesting and debating all the changes.  The next project appears to be
the pre-20th century command decision (wierd as it sounds it works, in
fact it works better than I expected).  As for Star Viking, I think it
is waiting on the Command Decision updates as well, but I would expect to
see it about next Gen Con/Origins at the latest.  Frank has decided to
go to 1/285th scale as the main focus for the game rather than the larger
scale he first envisioned.  The Star Viking rules should be very
portable into Traveller because of the common technological basis.

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					    Tom Harris