I'm a big fan of resin terrain. I bought some very nice 15mm resin roads on eBay. About ten linear feet and a bunch of intersections, curves and adapters for...
I live in Australia have been trying at this stage unsuccessfully to purchase a second hand copy of SGoM have all other books and games for Space 1889 except...
I can get the books but I would rather get the boxed game as it is difficult to get the figures and the are expensive. [Non-text portions of this message have...
I recently got a copy at Amazon. Note that it's not the boxed set. Rather, it's a reprint of just the rules in book form that also comes with a copy of...
I have a spare copy of the boxed Cloudship and Gunships with the ship models if anyone is interested in making me an offer for it. Although you should note...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/sc_afp/peruhealthoffbeat Meteor causes illness in Peru. Are H.G.Wells' Martians up to their old tricks again? Terry ...
I vaguely recall some discussion of this before: In a VSF world with flying armoured vessels carrying large caliber ordnance fortresses would be very different...
I've always been partial to flak towers (mounting very heavy guns) becoming a standard fortification before the turn of the 20th century. Gerry Harris ...
Hi I'm not sure that coastal or Maginot -type fortresses would be of any real value in a world lacking radar where vertical assault from near orbit is an...
... Altitude ... of ... I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that there's no statement to this effect in SGoM. From certain parts of the rules (firing ranges,...
"Blue leader, I count 20 guns, some in the towers, some on the surface", as the X-wings said in the first iteration of Star Wars. In a world where vertical...
... As long as radar is missing, acoustic location might advance at a much brisker rate than it did in our world (most probably drawing from Martian...
... Considering that most of the noise one hears from a prop-driven plane is from the propellors, not the engines (listen to a turbo-prop job going over, if...
I found a movie from Walt Desney Pictures called "TREASURE PLANET" that has space faring sailing ships as the base of the movie. While the movie is typical...
Of course, if it is your game, you can run it however you like, and provided you let your players know ahead of time it's "AU" (or whatever term you choose to...
May I recommend "Larklght" as further inspiration, this novel lines up very well with treasure planet but has a bit more VSF feel to it. I two have toyed with...
"Without the techical.." = in an earlier setting? Something like http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=91843 perhaps? Jean-Louis ... [Non-text...
... Very good point! I'm a big fan of TSR's old _Spelljammer_ setting as well, and I tend to find _Treasure Planet_ a bit more inspirational for that setting,...
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 2, Turn 45 The ongoing story of my Space:1889/Masque of the Red Death PBEM Game. A short Dramatis Personae is at the end of the post to...
I'm not too sure where I'm going with this, but here goes. If I assume that Aeronef can be used to fight ship based actions on Mars in the theme of ERB and...
I've always been partial to this image myself; http://www.pandora.ca/pictures13/021014.jpg The option for more open decks would be fun too. Is this a 1/300th...
Now being a total stranger to the world, I must addmit I have no idea whatsoever about what you're talking about ... but for ideas/suggestions on aeronef...
Well, I think the thing to do, if you want Barsoomian ships, is to start with the source. Seacrh the ERB books for descriptions of the flying ships, their...
Thank you Paul, I have a number of written descriptions of the Barsoom Fliers and you are right the descriptions vary quite a bit. I have started to sketch...
Greetings All, From an insert in the article THE ETHER by Marc W. Miller from CHALLENGE magazine No.34 ---- " An unusual application uses the Movement Cycle...
In David Drake's "Lt. Leary Comanding" SF series the spaceships use plasma dives to get into orbit and then use sailing rigs to jump through warp space. Very...
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