Re: (TFT) Waste of time?

["John J Hyland" <johnnyboytmm@juno.com>]

Yeah, the average marine doesn't last long in melee with a bug, its all shooting and getting out of the way of the horde of bugs.  TFT's strength (IMO) is really in small group melee combat.  

All that having been said, if you are willing to do the work I definitely would be interested in the results.  Never know when I might want to run an SF campaign, and if I can run it in TFT even better.

John

-- "Charles Gadda" <cgadda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Well, that, and the fact that in the original book the troopers also carried
small tac-nukes...

Lessee, here... wow! Rolled a three to hit! That will be 25,000 dice of
damage, tripled!

That will take awhile to roll up, I think...

I would submit that there are serious scalability issues here - perhaps an
adaptation of "Aliens" might be a better idea.

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Subject: Re: (TFT) Waste of time?


> I think you'd be breaking too much new ground.  That
> said ...
>
> There was an interesting article in one of the Inter-
> plays about an SF version of TFT, but it wasn't fleshed
> out too well ( probably because the designers wanted
> Howard to buy it but he was working on StarLeader ).
> Still, it might provide a jumping off point for you.
>
> But another problem you'd have is that the system would
> have to accomodate a single Trooper and hordes of bugs.
> I don't see an immediate way to handle this cleanly.
> ( ie, noone is going to want to roll for every bug out
> there. )  You might be able to get away with only roll-
> ing for those bugs that are in "close contact", whatever
> that means.
>
> >
> > From: "rmorger" <rmorger@mail.ev1.net>
> > Subject: (TFT) Waste of time?
> >
> > I saw something about Starship Troopers last night and
> > it got me thinking (Not necessarily a good thing :^)
> > about doing a TFT adaptation for the said game.
> >
> > Now do you think this is a possiblity or is it going
> > to be to much to change.
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