That reminds me that a 'Star Viking' PBM (PBEM?) was announced around the start of TNE. Did anything come of that? I think there were ads in Challenge. There was also "Top Laser", which IIRC was a Brilliant Lances convention game, advertised - yes, actualised - ?
Eamon
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Sent: Monday, 18 June 2012, 22:53
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: plaster terrain and minis
Jake--
I wouldn't use the word "pushed," because that makes it sound more
manipulative than it is.
What happens is you just have ideas about the way a line could go, and
that was definitely the way Frank's ideas were running at that point.
However, the plastic Clippers and boardgame would have been more like a
strategic expansion in space game, more along the lines of Axis and
Allies. And as I said in another post, a lot of that possible future got
reinvested in the effort required by DJ. We never made a decision to NOT
do the SV boardgame, it just faded away over time. Minion Hunter was the
first game made to use those hard boards, SV could have been another, but
other things happened, money got tighter, and plastic injection molding
was just no longer an option, which took the fun out of an Axis and Allies
style game.
Dave
> Command Decision is up to version 4 (and the best yet IMHO).
>
> The game Frank was demo-ing though was Men Under Fire which is a WW2
> skirmish game.
>
> I remember back in the day when 'Star Viking' was going to be a miniatures
> game with models included. I always wondered if Frank had pushed for TNE
> just so he could do his miniatures game?