In all fairness to Loren, this is the complete text of his message
(except for a non-rules related item which I deleted):
From: [email removed]
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 05:43:00 BST
To: [email removed]
Subject:
X-Genie-From: GDW.SUPPORT
Matt Goodman
Subject: TNE/BL/Battle Rider questions
Hi Loren!
Rules Questions:
> 1) When Battle Rider comes out, will it contain
> a) Different crewing formulae than BL (i.e. will capital ship
> have different crewing formulae a la High Guard v. Book 2)? Can
> you tell me what they will be if they will be different?
Different crewing formula? I don't know. As planned right now,
Battle Rider will contain rules for large fleet actions, (that
is, fleets with a large number of ships) not rules for designing
large ships. There might be a chapter of additions to FF&S/BL
ship design, but I do not know what that will contain (I'm not
working on the project)
> b) Rules for Large Nuclear Dampeners?
Perhaps, in the aforementioned additional rules section.
> c) A design example of a Large Ship?
Doubtful.
> 2) Is it "legal" to pack as many particle accellerators as
> will fit into a 50 or 100 ton bay?
I'm fairly sure it isn't, or it would be specifically discussed. Sorry
to screw up your campaign, but I'm sure we can help you work
around it somehow.
> This one isn't crucial to my campaign, but it is curious:
> 3) Scott 2G Kellogg used FF&S to design Meson Handguns. Is
> there a lower end on the size of PA's and Meson Guns?
Strictly speaking no, but we did not intend for them to be made
into small arms. The chapter on laser weapons deals in a fair
amount of detail with making laser small arms. The chapters on
PAWs and Meson guns do not, which indicates our intentions.
> Do ALL PA's and Meson Guns (even ground combat designs)
> require Beam Pointers?
Yes. What is Scott trying to do, design a weapon for a
TNE: Ghostbuster Campaign?
> I have the errata booklet that came with FF&S when it first
> came out. Is there any newer errata floating around? I can send
> you the mod dates on the errata I have (if that's neccessary)
On the way
> Also, when can I purchase a copy of the Rev. 2 rules (the
> ones with the corrections) from GDW?
Any time...right now, we couldn't sell you one of the old ones,
as we ran out before the new edition arrived.
(Stuff deleted).
LKW