OT: Scratchbuilding a fleet

JAFisher44 · #1 October 27th, 2005, 12:11 AM

Full Thrust rocks. I love that game. I wish I could get involved in it around here. I have really been toying with creating my own fleet, but I don't really have the time. Where do you guys play?

zircher · #2 October 27th, 2005, 02:03 AM

Fun stuff, Starhawk. I had a friend that tried the balsa thing from a different angle. He's pre-fabricate a slew of parts and then build up the ship designs from that. Almost like DoGA CGA done in balsa... :-)

Some of the results were pretty good, but he could not make them economical as large kits of parts to sell to others so he dropped the project. One interesting effect of the process was that ships tended to be more 3d and less naval inspired. Most of his designs were mounted on pins attached to a hex base. I imagine they were significantly more fragile than your design technique.
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Starhawk · #3 October 27th, 2005, 09:19 AM

Hey JaFisher well he and i are both scratchbuilding fleets and if he can convince his brother he'll be scratchbuilding one as well.

Our first game is actually going to be when we all have fleets enough for at least a small battle but we are also in effect creating our own game out of this using some of the FT rules.

We are adding a LOT of stuff to the stock rules plus modifying some of the existing ones.

I've actually never played FT yet as it was discontinued in the area where I live

, by time I went to a hobby shop and asked about it they no longer sold it or allowed it on their tables. All they had was BFG which though I love the ship designs cost 35 dollars for a 4 inch battleship.

So anyway after over a year of questing for information I found out about the scratchbuilding site and thought it was awsome and that it would be a great idea for me and my buddy to scratchbuild not only fleets but an entire GAME around this

JAFisher44 · #4 October 27th, 2005, 10:25 AM

I actually wanted to write a BFG expansion for FT. {Cause I think BFG is a pretty crappy game but I love the Warhammer 40K universe) I have only played FT once but now I have all the manuals courtesy of the internet

I love PDF. I would be interested to discuss your "home rules" and stuff.

I live in a crappy little logging town in western Washington. There just isn't a gaming community around here. Otherwise I'd whip together a FT group and get them building their fleets.

Anyway, I look forward to some stimulating FT convo.