I would think that some rational about the paddle box canceling the backward thrust allowing only the exposed portion of the paddles to provide thrust. It's...
I would think that some rational about the paddle box canceling the backward thrust allowing only the exposed portion of the paddles to provide thrust. It's...
... This comes up a lot with SGOM but I always felt the answer was pretty simple, since we have liftwood as a McGuffin. Just assume that liftwood can act as a...
Also, unlike water which is under the ship, the air is all around the ship. That means your paddlewheels don't have to be vertical and pointing down, they can...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0409 Possibly the most important of all the Victorian Engineers in truth and in VSF fiction!...
... Just received my Parhoom Station martian infantry yesterday - they're a touch smaller than the RAFM martians. Not problematically so - they might need an...
recieved your pics thx a lot you take better pics than me ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has...
... That was Captain Sweetiepants of the Dauntless. She has a good eye and she *loves* SGOM. She has beaten me twice in the last two SGOM games played. ...
In Cloudships and Gunboats, the Belgium Liege Assault Transport mounts a pair of steam-power catapults use to launch small boarding longboats. Does anyone have...
I have CandG. The long boat look like hand cranked propellor driven open dinghys to me. glarson52 <glarson52@...> wrote: In Cloudships and Gunboats, the...
My copy of Cloudships/Gunboats has the color deck plans suitable for gaming use. The one marked Belgian Boarding Launch shows benches along each side of the...
The rules for the turncranks on the transports are included in the Liege descritpion. It loses speed rapidly if it goes too fast as the crew get exhausted. I...
Quick question, anyone recall if canon discusses telegraph cables between the various cities of the British colonies? Specifically Syrtis Major and Moeris...
Paul, Check in TRMGS, Mark Clark wrote an article in v.1 (I'm pretty sure it isn't on the Heliograph web site) about the British telegraph system on Mars. Joe...
... There's a line drawing in the Challenge article "A Smoking Flax". It depicts the launch looking like one of Garnet Wolsely's Nile whalers with twin,...
I picked up a copy of Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure and there is a quote from Churchill on ocean travel that I think paraphrases most excellently into what...
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 3, Turn 1 The ongoing story of my Space:1889/Masque of the Red Death PBEM Game. First turn of Chapter 3! A short Dramatis Personae is...
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 3, Turn 2 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...
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 3, Turn 3 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...
Greetings, a great many years ago I saw Space 1889 on the shelves but as a young lad, didn't have the coin to pick it up. Now I'm older, greyer and a bit more...
I ran a few games using the ships and bases supplied in the game. It's easy to work out turns by lining up a spare base. From memory I used inches for movement...
Pat - The movement system (based upon my one experience at Cold Wars) works like a naval miniatures game using rulers or tape measures and a Mark I eyeball ...
... I've always been very happy with the d6 combat, but have run several games without the hexes. I find the system works very well, provided you have hex...
I agree with Paul and even ran a game at Origins a few years back using this hexless system. It's basically the IC&EF movement system with just flyers and no...
Thank you all for the input. I'm an ex-Harpoon minis player so I'm accustomed to a little more depth. ;-) I'll give the d6 combat and 2" hexes a whirl....
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 3, Turn 4 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...
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