Last night Chris introduced me to Full Thrust which is a starship combat game. People may have seen Chris playing it before. He's done a pretty good job modding some of the ships with LEDs where the thrusters would be. They look pretty cool.
The game plays quick enough that we managed to get in 3 games in the evening. I really should have saved the turn sheets as they pretty much record how things went down. From memory though things worked out this way; I won the first game reasonably decisively. The second game was a draw with Chris having one surviving, although seriously crippled, ship escaping the table before I could destroy it. The final game saw me crushed to the point of only being useful as a Space Hulk. Full Thrust is a generic set of rules. There is no set background that the game is based around. The full game comes with a campaign system and ship design rules as well as all the usual guff you'd expect in a rule book for starship combat. From what I've seen the campaign system is more based around having a starting fleet, a series of engagements with repair and restock of existing ships. There's no facility in the initial campaign system to allow for ship construction or resource management in-game. A turn in the initial campaign system is a week and the repair/restock system seems quite easy to manage. It's an attrition game where the final battles are fought between crippled Battleships with a couple of "1 Lasers", dodgy thrusters and one remaining fire control system still working. I'm interested in giving this a go if anyone else is. I'm also interested in working on a larger scale campaign system with resource management and ship construction in-game if anyone else is also interested in this. In summary; I had fun. Want to play more. :) |
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The rules for Full Thrust Lite, which we played, are simple and fast. They're also
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If ya want to have a go...
If anybody wants to have a go themselves, just flag me down at Cavaliers sometime and i'll be more than willing to give you a game.
As Gold has said, its a very fast flowing game that is easy to pick up so the more the merrier :D
I am also interested in running a campagin sometime so when we get a few more players I will organise something