Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pesnta!nsc!nessus From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Galactica is dead meat... Message-ID: <2801@nsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 19:53:52 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.2801 Posted: Wed Jun 5 19:53:52 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Jun-85 02:16:49 EDT References: <707@ssc-vax.UUCP> <429@leadsv.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Patriarchy of Kzin, Kzin Lines: 30 > If any of you are interested in simulating combat between > the Enterprise and the Galactica - there is a way to do it. > You may have already heard of a board game called Star Fleet > Battles. It has counters for all the different ships used by > all the different races that an Federation starship might run > into. This includes the Romulans, Klingons, Gorn, and others > such as Kzinti, Hydrans, Andromedans, and the Tholians. > > Now the Kzinti (ref. the novels, not the series), tend to > use "aircraft carrier" type spaceships that launch fighters, > much like the Battlestar Galactica. (This is suppose to be in > keeping with the highly individualistic Kzinti, who like to > fight alone). Using the Kzinti ships from the game you can > simulate the Galactica. There are also expansion kits to this > game which give almost every race an "aircraft carrier & fighters" > type starship. You could try those if you don't think the > Kzinti are close enough to the Galactica. > > ... > - Chris Salander [I found your flame verbose. You scream and you leap.] Are these the same Kzinti from Larry Niven's Known Space series? Was reading some news-groups that I don't normally read and this aroused my curiosity. Kchula-Rrit "Curiosity and cats do not mix."