On 11Oct2020 0355, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:

> Once I finally got ahold of the 1st ed (1979) HG CT LBB my first  > reaction was; "Heck, this is better than the later one. What ever >
made MM want to change it so much?" However, it's apparent that >
dissatisfaction set in quick as it seems that work on the 2nd ed >
commenced right after the 1st ed was published.
There are some things that are probably better in the 2nd version -
pulse lasers suck a bit less, meson guns aren't insensitive to range.
Only meson guns caring about hull form is the huge combat change, and I
think I prefer the earlier version there, conceptually at least. I do
like the way the 2nd edition made particle beams unique in that they
they have no counter other than 'don't get hit' and armour.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>