Has anyone played Sky Galleons by email? is there anything out there in the way of a computer assist or do you just have to assign coordinate numbers to the...
Alan Laird has been running one for some months. We have a Yahoo Group called theredcaptains. He used #'ed hexes for a long time and then found a nice program...
Cyberboard is a fantastic utility for PBEM play and its free. I've made a couple of incomplete gameboxes that I can provide. Unfortunatley the SGOM campaign...
I've downloaded Cyberboard and the game boxes I found in the Red Captains group. How do you handle altitude? Inside Cyberboard or with just an email? Thanks, ...
I created markers in the cyberboard game box (cyberbox?) just like in the game so in the markers group you have height markers, amongst other things. It's not...
... Exactly, a few of Warm Winds converted to use as colliers is probably a better answer for RN purposes. They wouldn't require the presence of army troops to...
In a message dated 8/28/2003 9:05:51 PM Central Standard Time, ... Quite right, thank you David N. Tanner G. M. the Crystal Zebra 707 E. Cervantes St. ...
... Canal boats are probably also heavily used in this area. They are much cheaper and can service most areas of the colony to within 100 miles or so. Captain...
Greetings from the Rabbidgerbal who was wondering if anyone took the very rare chance at some mars viewing? Luckily a friend just lent the rabbidgerbal a...
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 1, Turn 1 The ongoing story of my Space:1889/Masque of the Red Death PBEM Game. I hope folks are enjoy these, if there is a consensus...
I found my copy of TRMGS, vol. 2 last night and I read the short article by Allan E. Johnson, The Martian Magnetic Field. Mr. Johnson states that the magnetic...
In a message dated 9/15/03 2:55:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Well I've recently taken interest in astronomy (enought to start looking through small...
... by Allan E. Johnson, The Martian Magnetic Field. Mr. Johnson states that the magnetic field of Mars is almost nonexistent. This caused me to wonder, once...
... speaking about the winds perhaps their are lots of eddys and changing directions of the winds that could factor in some course directions in that a pilot...
Yes.... My wife, my son and I went to the Sheep's Hill Observatory in Boonton, New Jersey and viewed Mars. We have our own telescope, but it is not as...
Hi, I thought I'd let the group know that while I've been quiet recently, I haven't disappeared. Far from it, I've actually started converting my HMS Aphid 3D...
In my continuing efforts to annoy player characters and improve my nitpicking skills, I researched the costs of shipping to Mars. In the original books a ...
Perhaps one might need to consider that the trip from London to Hong Kong in the 1870-90 time period was the longest possible trip that could be made for all...
In addition, the ordinary riff-raff of the times would have most likely not been able to get passage to Mars. Don't want the wrong stuff d'you see? As to...
... from ... from ... One thing Space:1889 never seemed to address is the possibility of an ether flyer being used as a transport from one place on Earth to...
... I would simply imagine that Ether Flyers are too rare and too valuable to be used for Earth-to-Earth shipping : what is the point in using one of the few...
Thursday October 2nd will see the begining of General Gordon's counter attack against the Devon Hive. Time across the start line will be 7:30 Pm at the...
In a message dated 9/25/03 4:34:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I think of it as less efficent, in that Earth has a stronger gravity being larger meaning that...
... This is a problem, especially because IMO allowing quick earth transport via etherflyer would destroy the feel of the setting. Spelljammer had the same...
Hello.... I plan run a "Sky Galleons of Mars" miniatures event, twice, at "Ubercon II", as I did at "Ubercon I". The event reads as follows... Title: "GDW's...
Ethereal Gothic Chapter 1, Turn 2 The ongoing story of my Space:1889/Masque of the Red Death PBEM Game. I hope folks are enjoy these, if there is a consensus...
Hello.... Just a reminder.... I will be running two "Sky Galleons of Mars" miniatures events, with a large collection of OOP Game-Tech ships, at Ubercon this...