tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post87109427106863364..comments2024-03-27T22:32:17.055-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: Fun times in the Ethel SystemJeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-27258068804426805322020-10-26T16:34:12.801-05:002020-10-26T16:34:12.801-05:00I'm someone who has lived a life seemingly in ...I'm someone who has lived a life seemingly in the background, I must say this final indignity I have suffered almost too much to endure. You see, I have been sickly and weak since the day I was born and doomed to go through all my life a weakling. I seemed to have always suffered from one illness or another and could never play with the other children as I so desperately wanted to. Mother always made such a big fuss over me, also, making the situation worse as the other boys teased me mercilessly after they saw it. I was browsing the internet searching on how i could be transformed into a powerful when i came across the email of a man named Lord Mark. who was a VAMPIRE so I told him that I has always dreamed of becoming a VAMPIRES, All i did was just to follow the procedure that i was been told, and i bet you that procedure I took change my entire life to something i ever desire, freedom, sickness free, pains free, fame, influence, connections and even more that i can. Thanks to Lord Mark. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? contact the vampires creed today via email: Vampirelord7878@gmail.comAlandrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564958616469735697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-69066708949990327812020-10-21T14:37:21.305-05:002020-10-21T14:37:21.305-05:00No, CE has lots of races but it's very abstrac...No, CE has lots of races but it's very abstract, more of a social/deal-making game than a wargame, no real movement system as such.<br /><br />FWIW, I think the game I'm not quite remembering was Dark Stars from Simulations Canada, but I'm not positive. Whatever it was, I recall one race (maybe the Terrans, even) used some sort of "dive into a singularity" FTL drive, while another used more Traveller-like hypersapce jumping and there might have been others - maybe some kind of big warp gate tech, that was a pretty popular trope back in the early 80s.<br /><br />Also, boy howdy, does Boardgame Geek have a lot of scifi games listed for the 70s and 80s. :)Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-39010857981677882352020-10-21T14:04:05.445-05:002020-10-21T14:04:05.445-05:00Thanks for sharing, Dick! I was trying to remember...Thanks for sharing, Dick! I was trying to remember if Cosmic Encounter had different travel modes or not. I played that once in 91 or 92 and can't remember a darn thing about it.Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-3026304899784589182020-10-21T14:02:04.673-05:002020-10-21T14:02:04.673-05:00FWIW, having played quite a bit of Web & Stars...FWIW, having played quite a bit of Web & Starship, the main standout was not just the asymmetry but the "balanced for 3 players" aspect of the rules, something you didn't see much in board wargames back then (and only slightly more so today). The "web" side had to get their gates to new systems via STL probes, which could use the gate they were hauling to keep in supply from the homeworlds so they were built small and stealthy and didn't need to be giant generation ships or anything. The "starship" side could go anywhere much faster than the STL gate-probes, but it's hard to pile enough ships in a system to interdict a probe sneaking past to set up a gate somehwere, and starships can't carry enough troops to win a ground war once a gate starts 'porting troops in en masse. The humans start behind the curve but could eventually get both tech types going at once, or concentrate more on one that the other. Great game, and as you said, many of Costikyan's designs are underappreciated gems.<br /><br />There was some other 80s (or maybe late 70s) boardgame that had multiple races with different FTL approaches, but the name's eluding me. Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com