FASA Adventure Class Ships

[Garnfellow]

I've been thumbing through these books lately, and they all seem pretty solid. But FFE includes them on the Apocrypha 1 CD ROM. Is there a reason why they were decanonized? I'm not a strong enough with CT ship design to tell at a glance if these ships have serious flaws.

 

[Proneutron]

I just glanced at a couple of the designs in Vol 1. Not that I have made any large CT ships in a LONG time but I saw nothing obviously wrong with them. I don't think that the decision was based on rule design problems but because of setting considerations.

 

[GypsyComet]

The Chameleon is a serious hardpoint breaker, but some of the ships appear in TNE, so I think it's a case of them being a mixed bag but wanting to keep the line in one place.

 

[infojunky]

Hard points and creative use of High Guard.

A lot of them I like, as such play them as written or fix them in your games either works.

I for one am matching 15mm miniatures to the counters included with the plans.

 

[aramis]

I've been thumbing through these books lately, and they all seem pretty solid. But FFE includes them on the Apocrypha 1 CD ROM. Is there a reason why they were decanonized? I'm not a strong enough with CT ship design to tell at a glance if these ships have serious flaws.

Being on the apochrypha simply means Third Party Publisher (3PP), not decanonized. Marc still wants, when practical, them checked against. Even DGP.

When most of the licenses were pulled in 1984, it wasn't a decanonization, just an end to new material.

There were a few decanonizations: The Judges Guild sectors took a hit, since half were overwritten by Atlas of the Imperium, and those are noted in Atlas.

 

[GypsyComet]

When most of the licenses were pulled in 1984, it wasn't a decanonization, just an end to new material.

In the case of FASA I recall the end of license decision being either entirely FASA or mutual, as they had other higher profile licenses to pursue (Star Trek) and of course Battletech was swiftly becoming extremely successful.

I think Paranoia Press and JG had already walked away. The Keiths formed new imprints to keep writing for Traveller when FASA stopped, only stopping themselves when Battletech sucked them in.

Not sure about Gamelords, and the miniatures licenses (GW/RAFM and Grenadier) are also harder to track due through releases to their nature. The third miniatures license (Martian Metals) burned flat a bit earlier.

The later group, DGP, Seeker, and the sudden explosion of fanzines, would mostly carry on through MT.