Re: (TFT) TFT in Space-- Starleader Assault

["Charles Gadda" <cgadda@earthlink.net>]

It is fairly different from TFT, though there are some shared concepts.

One of the neater ideas was dropping "MA" and going to an action point (AP)
system. Seems to me someone here was trying to convert TFT to an AP system -
I have no idea where that went.

As I recall, one of the motivations for the new system was to "get away"
from the Steve Jackson designed TFT. I cannot help but wonder if HT's
psychotic and irrational vendetta against SJ was one of the big reasons
behind Metagaming's downfall...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Peterson" <peterson@vigyan.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: (TFT) TFT in Space-- Starleader Assault


> Greetings, TFT list members! I was wondering if anyone out there could
> answer a question about Metagaming's #3121, Starleader: Assault! MicroGame
> 21. I would like to know if Starleader Assault was based on Melee or TFT
> rules, and if so, how the system was adjusted for the far future setting.
I
> also would like to know how the system was changed to justify it being a
> "Howard Thompson" game design, if anything about it sticks out in your
mind.
>
> I have run across a few mentions of Starleader, but have not seen it. I
had
> exited from the active board gaming scene by 1982 when it was released.
> Interestingly, there was a TFT Science Fiction variant called "Martian
> Vanguard" published in Interplay #4 by Chad Brandt of Richmond, Virginia.
> This article described a well-developed conversion of the TFT rules for a
> Traveller-like setting. This was well before Starleader shipped. It was
> apparently close to the bone: the Interplay editor added a parenthetic
> comment that Martian Vanguard was not intended to be compatible with the
> forthcoming Starleader rules.
>
> Evidently Starleader was to have a space ship combat microgame shortly
> after the point in time when Metagaming shut down. I can't imagine what it
> would have been likeanyone care to speculate?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Peterson
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