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Tempted...tempted...

But would I play Blake 7...or Captain Mal-style

lol the choice is yours as they say....  

Jason wrote:Tempted...tempted...

But would I play Blake 7...or Captain Mal-style

Use the Force  

Knowing my luck Stuart, I'd end up being more Jar-Jar Binx!

That is not an outfit anyone wants me to wear Kingmaker

I take it the game will be more free form like Glory, versus more structured? I'll be curious to see how it plays out, and how community works in it.

In Glory your fellow players can be both allies and enemies, not sure how these dynamics will work.

Deacon wrote:
I take it the game will be more free form like Glory, versus more structured?  I'll be curious to see how it plays out, and how community works in it.

In Glory your fellow players can be both allies and enemies, not sure how these dynamics will work.

Bet some students of Chinese history will have no problem with the concept of trying to overthrow the evil Empire and at the same time trying to sale their rival's down the river    

Rules are available for purchase, will be curious what people have to say after reading them.

Got the rules today,for me, and probably my sci fi knowledge is limited it, seems more "Firefly"/"Serenity" than Star Trek. Think space ship with a crew of ten rather than hundreds, but there probably are military vessals with hundreds in their crew in the game.
The rules indicate no silliness, as in my Bismark in "Scramble" is modelled on Frankie Howard in Carry On films. But I wonder if there might be a darker side to this as in quite a few sci fi themes. So I am thinking the first three series of Babylon 5 rather than Star Wars.
The rules also include the new element a sound broadcast. Got mine as a cd. Really well done. Professional and this could really work. After my getting the French army slaughtered in Waterloo (sorry Stuart) a fresh start in sometthing new looks tempting.

Thanks for that Basileus...always been a Firefly and B5 fan so am tempted...the Federation in it reminds me a bit of Blakes 7...*goes off to look at bank balance*...

Hi lured to this game via the advert in Suspense and Decision , big fan of Blake 7, Firefly, B5 etc. so this really looks push all my gaming buttons, looking forward to the start  

Hi Joedylan

Welcome on board. Hopefully you'll enjoy this new game (have the rules, will try and give my positive thoughts tomorrow night). Like you, a B7/B5/Firefly fan so fingers crossed this game will feel right.

Do have a look at the other games, Scramble and Glory. Not SciFi but still very good fun

Jason wrote:Hi Joedylan

Welcome on board.  Hopefully you'll enjoy this new game (have the rules, will try and give my positive thoughts tomorrow night).  Like you, a B7/B5/Firefly fan so fingers crossed this game will feel right.

Do have a look at the other games, Scramble and Glory.  Not SciFi but still very good fun

Mind you some people seem to be trying to bring very old style Jules Verne style SciFi into Scramble.

Have effectively zero knowledge of B7/B5/Firefly etc..........but wonder if I could get by in this game with a certain amount of knowledge about Maritime Crime & Western films (Well they say Star Wars is a Western in Space).

Have now read rules and can see you start with Main Character & a small 8 berth Space Ship. But does this mean you and a crew of 7 or you and a mix of crew and passenger berth's. Or just you & 7 empty beds?

I suspect that we are expected to recruit our space crews. Firefly and Serenity was very much a western in space.

Have effectively zero knowledge of B7/B5/Firefly etc..........but wonder if I could get by in this game with a certain amount of knowledge about Maritime Crime & Western films (Well they say Star Wars is a Western in Space).

Looks like this game will a good introduction to the genre

Indeed I think regime change looks to be a good intro to the whole Genre   

Blake's 7 was escaped convicts and political radicals turned freedom fighters/terrorists in a cool ship, fighting the good fight because they didn't really have a better option

Blake's 7 wrote:Vila: Where are all the good guys?
Blake: You could be looking at them.
Avon: What a very depressing thought.

Ok, have rules and it looks an interesting game, different to anything I've tried before.

Richard has clearly put a lot of thought and effort into creating something different that should challenge us and get us thinking.

There is clearly a lot we don't yet know, for example was the Old Republic actually any good, the new Federation could be an improvement...and we might be the bad guys!

Jason wrote:Ok, have rules and it looks an interesting game, different to anything I've tried before.

Richard has clearly put a lot of thought and effort into creating something different that should challenge us and get us thinking.

There is clearly a lot we don't yet know, for example was the Old Republic actually any good, the new Federation could be an improvement...and we might be the bad guys!

It would seem that Jason has clearly not read any of my game press/propaganda or he would know that:

Good guys = My side    ...............I know some people disagree about some of my characters/positions such as the HEIC, The  En Guarde Poet & Commissioner of Public Saftey Donald MacDonald Visconti,  The "Enlightened" Elf Rune Priest and the hard working, under paid Ottoman Civil Servant in G2 being the kind, loveable, put upon "good guys" of Bailey accounts but they are clearly wrong or Venetians.

Bad guys = Opponents of my loveable and put upon characters and Venetians.

Actually perhaps in RC I could play a Jason Bourne type suffering memory loss and wondering what he did under the Republic to make him a target?

Suspect the back plot of RC is a bit like that of Star Wars with a corrupt and not very effective Republic being brought down by people who start out with fairly good intentions but go to the dark side.  Which also seems to be the Jacobite sub plot in G7.........Tom started off as not a bad character but fell into gambling, treason, locking up Priests and sabreing children as one of James Stuart's Dragoon's.

Before you know it Tom will have truely gone to the dark.........using Goats & soft chairs.

I've read your game press Stuart...and if you plan to adopt that approach in RC, I'll make sure I'm at least 3 star systems away from you...I like my ears on the sides of my head...and my head on my body...

Jason wrote:I've read your game press Stuart...and if you plan to adopt that approach in RC, I'll make sure I'm at least 3 star systems away from you...I like my ears on the sides of my head...and my head on my body...

The bonus payments for ears rather than heads was to save weight.............character kind to horses.

As for turning head the head of major foes into drinking cup's...........very cultured character, patron of silver smith's and upholder of old folk traditions.