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 20thmaine  | 04 Jan 2013 12:59 p.m. PST |
As 2013 arrives so do some updates on the SWA Lone Warrior Blog. A mixed bag this time : Rob Morgan is reusing Boardgame pieces for SF space gaming : link Graham Empson has a complete ACW scouting solo game devised in this classic LW article from Issue 167 : PDF link Whilst Jonathan Aird is running to the batcave for this Batmobile review : PDF link Enjoy ! |
| laager50 | 04 Jan 2013 3:17 p.m. PST |
Hi just read rob's piece, does he know anything about 'Thunderbirds' and that it was a tv series. Of the two pictures shown the top one is Thunderbird one and the second is Thunderbird 3. He describes the other 2 pieces and they must be Thunderbirds 2 & 4.
How can he say the game comes with sixteen spaceships.
The one he describes as a single seat fighter would be thunderbird 4 a underwater craft. |
| 20thmaine | 04 Jan 2013 3:40 p.m. PST |
I think the point of the piece was that Rob' was re-using the pieces of a cheap game to make a SF space battlegame of his own design (i.e. he isn't playing Thunderbirds – so Thunderbird 4 could be – a shuttle craft or a cargo carrier perhaps !). The sixteen ships are presumably multiple copies of the same Thunderbirds for each player in the original game (which, I have to admit I'm unfamiliar with – I'd guess that it's a "family race game" spin-off from Thunderbirds). |
| laager50 | 05 Jan 2013 10:01 a.m. PST |
Maybe, but why call T2 a beetle like craft when most people would know what T2 looks like. |
| Last Hussar | 05 Jan 2013 10:33 a.m. PST |
He didn't recognise Thunderbirds? I despair of today's youth. (Yeah I know- 'since the late 70's' shows he must be in his 40s at least, but still!) |
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looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!