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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
My personal guess is that the market for spaceship combat boardgames isn't what David wishes it would be. Spaceships is at least his third try at doing one that overlaps with rpgs and none have been all that successful as boardgames.
There might be a bigger market that doesn't overlap wit rpgs much but there Spaceships is handicapped by a lack of mini and a default setting.
So the playtesters for Spaceships came heavily from the rpg side and had little use for the example ships. Making your own ships is too easy in Spaceships for somebody else's to be worth much to you.
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I own all the Spaceships books, but have never used them yet...mainly because
I used GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, including tactical space combat (which was very fun!!). Now because so much of ISW is in Spaceships, I feel like I've used Spaceships, and if I craft a Sci-fi campaign from scratch, I certainly would use the heck out of Spaceships.