Sci fi 15mm- random thoughts

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

Played the Avalon Hill 1976 boardgame 'Starship Troopers' with a mate of mine back in the day... Nice drop deployment and hidden movement for burrowers with certain detection methods...

Also played this fun shipboard game - you never knew whether your shaving foam would have no effect, annoy them, melt them or make them breed! Thought that'd be a fun mechanism for those first contact situations - kinda like 'Evolution' with fire or Head and Shoulders...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162/the-awful-green-things-from-outer-space


Neil

[martin goddard]

Indeed John.
I do like his plausible plots.

Although the game will not be starship troopers. It is his plausibility I like rather than the exact detail.
The game will not be soldiers v tunnel bugs because such a layout is too difficult.  Both sides will have choice of force rather than a matched pair of bugs and men.  I think most games will be two similar forces of 8 soldiers. Affordable, buildable, with options and smallish.

I am thinking of using some of the mechanisms from SOL.  That is simple.

martin