Peter,
if it is not in the vault(I have not looked yet) any chance of re posting
it, or just sending it to interested parties, i.e. me!
Cheers
Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: primarch_at_... <primarch@...>
To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com <netepic_at_yahoogroups.com>
Date: 09 April 2001 19:20
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] Game comparisons
>Hi!
>
>If anyone were interested I made a complete conversion of all epic
>units to DSII some years ago that is available in the vault (I hope).
>I also incorporated some good ideas/concepts from net based players.
>It makes for an interesting game. The Eldar are extremely high tech,
>but super expensive while on the other side of the spectrum we have
>the orks with the lowest tech, but very cheap, everyone else is in
>between. Of course I needed to stretch DSII rules to its limits to
>accomodate certain game concepts (like demons), but it is all in DSII
>terms.
>
>If anyone has used them it be nice to know how it went.
>
>Peter
>
>
>--- In netepic_at_y..., Daryl Lonnon <dlonnon_at_f...> wrote:
>> > Sounds interesting. What are the quality of GZG's mini's???
>>
>> They are okay ... getting better as time goes on. Supposedly the
>> casting in the UK is better than the casting done in the States (at
>> Geohex).
>>
>> Dirtside II tries to be a generic system, as such, the rules
>encourage
>> you to use whatever miniatures you have. I've used my Eldar army
>> as hi-tech alien birdmen. It worked well ... okay I got cremed ...
>but
>> the concept worked well.
>>
>> FYI,
>> Dirtside II is currently Out of Print. Jon talks about rewriting it
>> for Dirtside III, which (he says) would incorporate alot of the
>Stargrunt II
>> mechanisms. Keep in mind that Jon is pretty much a company of one
>(I
>> think he might employ some castors, and a secretary ... part-
>time). The
>> vision behind the games is solid, but the speed of releases are
>> somewhat glacial. (ie don't hold your breadth of DS III). Somewhat
>> compensating this, alot of the material on the web is quite good.
>>
>> Your best bet for finding Dirtside links is off the FT webring.
>> http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=ftnet&page=1&list
>>
>> Some I found off of that are:
>> http://www.ftsr.org/ds2/
>> http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/andrewmartin/DSII/DSII.HTM
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> DarylL
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