GREAT LINKS!
Here is the link to the Yahoo Group for ASTRAL EMPIRES:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/StarEmpires/
Here is a link to the Yahoo Group for playtesting ASTRAL EMPIRES (This is a brand new forum set up in October of 2007. You will only be added to the group if you are accepted as a playtester):
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/astral_empires/
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RESOURCES FOR OTHER GAME SYSTEMS (We support all spaceship combat games, as they all add something to this gaming niche we love) :
FULL THRUST:
http://www.groundzerogames.net/
STAR FLEET BATTLES:
STARMADA:
mj12games.com/starmada/
ATTACK VECTOR: TACTICAL
http://www.adastragames.com/products/adastra/av.html
FIREPOWER PASS (Great Detailed Operational Level Combat Game):
GOBS (Generic Outlandishly Big Spacefleets):
http://members.aol.com/thegobspage/
Here are some links to various universe-specific Full Thrust conversions available online:
ADDITIONAL FULL THRUST LINKS (Various sci-fi universes):
Old Star Trek (caution, as it has the old FT2 rules instead of FB)[/b]
http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/st-ft.htm
TNG Star Trek
http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/full_trek.txt
http://www.voidgamers.com/channel/sci-fi/full-impulse (Rules are available about halfway down the page as a 4.7MEG PDF file-really good!!)
Babylon 5
http://www.bcpl.net/~indy/full-thrust/new-rules.html
http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/bab5.txt
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/8234/B5.html
Babylon 5 EFSB (from the original Tuffley-designed rules system)
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/3552/tbpsbg/tbpsbg.html
Star Wars
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernskies/ft/swconv.htm
Star Blazers/Yamato
http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/starblaz.htm
Honor Harrington (although from what I've seen Ken's game replicates the "feel of HH" much better than the hugely less-detailed FT conversion)
http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/hhft.htm
http://www.warpfish.com/jhan/ft/honor/index.shtml
Battlefleet Gothic
http://web.archive.org/web/20021005192118/http://www.hicom.net/~teske/sfleet/ftfb.html
Traveller
http://www.homegame.org/siefert/uftwwwp/files/5thThrust.txt
(btw, Ad Astra Games is going to be offering Power Projection, which is an official FT-derived rules set for Traveller. Definitely worth checking out!)
Robotech/Macross
http://www.cygnusx1.info/ft/ft2/robotech1.html
http://www.cygnusx1.info/ft/ft2/robotech2.html
Additional rules, ideas and scenarios
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.Manley/wargames/thrust/ftmain.htm
http://www.bcpl.net/~indy/full-thrust/full-thrust.html
More FT weapons than you have ever seen, in even your dreams:
http://nift.firedrake.org/Weap-Def_Archive.htm
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