{"id":4350,"date":"2007-07-18T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/07\/starship-battles\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:13:00","slug":"starship-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/07\/starship-battles.html","title":{"rendered":"Starship Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I know many readers of my blog are Star Wars fans. I recently purchased the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000L9TJ1Q?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000L9TJ1Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Wars Miniatures Starship Battles Starter Set<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000L9TJ1Q\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\">, and can highly recommend it. Created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=starwars\/article\/starshipbattles\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wizards of the Coast<\/a>, who are also responsible for the Star Wars Miniatures game (involving individual characters rather than ships) and currently also produce the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=dnd\/welcome\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dungeons and Dragons <\/a>line of products.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who appreciate these sorts of games will welcome this. The Star Trek game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starfleetgames.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Starfleet Battles <\/a>was a famous attempt at creating a game in which one can reenact combat between starships, but it was extremely cumbersome in its attempts to emulate all the various workings of a starship as portrayed in the Star Trek series. Wishing to introduce my son to these sorts of games in a simpler form, a while back I came up with my own <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~jfmcgrat\/games\/Simple%20Starship%20Combat%20Game.doc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Starship Combat Simulation rules<\/a>, which are available <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~jfmcgrat\/games\/Simple%20Starship%20Combat%20Game.doc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>. I am rather pleased that they would seem to be no longer needed, and that one can play this sort of game with miniatures that are a significant improvement over the old pewter ones or cardboard cutouts we used to use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3451890860494683510?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know many readers of my blog are Star Wars fans. I recently purchased the Star Wars Miniatures Starship Battles Starter Set, and can highly recommend it. 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