At 11:58 PM 8/21/97 PDT, you wrote:
>Chris wrote :
>
>>I'm not sure how well all the Dune stuff/bckgrnd/etc would work in
>>epic
>>anyway.
>
>I'm sure it would work very well. If you consider the two first books
>(the best part of the cycle), all the battles are planetary assaults
>: this means that a lot of troops are involved.
>The only problem I can see is that Franck Herbert did not describe
>enough different units to make an Epic game really interesting (in
>any case it was not his intention), but the mailing list is here for
>this kind of problem.
>
>There is a boardgame about Dune but it is very simple and I don't
>like it : the aim is to conquer a pre-determined number of sietchs
>using diplomany and military forces (represented by some round
>plastic markers like coins!). You can play Atreides, Harkonnens, Bene
>Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, the Space Guild, etc... I don't remember well
>but I was very disapointed when I tried it.
Bene Tleilax? Isn't it Tleilaxu? Or something similar.
>
>Francois Bruntz
>Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
>
>Please visit my Epic page :
>http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/2370/
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 14:29:27 UTC