Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aesat.UUCP Path: utzoo!aesat!dale From: dale@aesat.UUCP (Dale Groves) Newsgroups: net.games.pbm Subject: New PBM game Message-ID: <472@aesat.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 08:59:20 EDT Article-I.D.: aesat.472 Posted: Fri Sep 27 08:59:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 09:21:07 EDT References: <17600002@uiucuxa> <232@ethz.UUCP> <1198@ihuxp.UUCP> Reply-To: dale@aesat.UUCP (Dale Groves) Organization: AES Data Inc., Mississauga Ont., Canada Lines: 32 Summary: In article <1198@ihuxp.UUCP> wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) writes: >> In article <17600002@uiucuxa> ms297@uiucuxa.Uiuc.ARPA writes: >> > >> >Is there anyone who knows about or is in a Star Lord game with >> >Flying Buffalo, Inc.? Write here. >> >> Try Star*web*, in my opinion Starlord is rather boring. > >Try Capitol, from Adventures By Mail (POB 436, Cohoes, NY 12047). >Much better than either of the above. Especially if you can get a >group together to take up all eight posisitions in a race. > > THE WEAPON from 4SIGHT (POB 1903, Indianapolis, IN, 46206) is another new pbm company. In TW, rather than attaching numbers of ships to keys as in STARWEB, you design/build attributes into your individual ships (beams, shields, deflectors, shields, etc.) which allows you to tailor your capabilities. Leads to some VERY interesting/frustrating decisions about what/how much of which do you want to have on any given ship depending on ship class (from tiny class 1 scouts to class 6 behemoths)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________ Dale R. Groves ~/ | {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!dale \__ ________________| / /_`/ Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? / / / / THE SHADOW KNOWS... /____/