Starships and Rankings

Ad Astra is a game company which produces a 3-D tabletop starship combat game called Attack Vector, which is notable for its commitment to representing real physics, as much as possible. It has a true vectored-movement 3-D combat system, which necessarily involves lots of math. I haven't tried their ruleset as I'm not really in their target demographic (and I usually write my own rules anyway) but I do like some of their ship designs. Said designs are extrapolations of known physics and workable technologies with a fair amount of math to back them up, and as a consequence they don't look much like anything else on the market.

This is all notable because they're finally producing some real miniatures to go with it. I'm going to have to pick up some of those. Purty.

RJA has bumped me up a few notches in his sidebar link list. I think I can get higher than that. The competition does not look staggeringly impressive.

Finished Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (basically read it in two sittings over two days). Fantastic; a post about it and about his other stuff is forthcoming.

It rained last night like it was going out of style, which has mediated the heat and humidity somewhat, thankfully.

Kung fu (and weapons) tonight.

Update! Rather than have so many posts (I'm averaging 2 per day) I think I'll just add on to existing posts. If any of the three people who read this would rather I do it the other way, speak up.

Kung fu involved lots of strike practice and a punishing round of stations. My arms are not going to be actually functional tomorrow. They're not particularily functional now.

Added an opening screen to my galciv2 Futurama mod. It's getting ready for prime time, at least as an initial offering (leaderheads, descriptions, icons, colours and systems all done, along with title screen and new title music); all the dialog to be redone, probably, and the ethics stuff is all going to be redone. But that takes time and the mod is quite playable as it is.

That's about it. End Transmission.