Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On 2021-12-11 10:45 p.m., Robert Woodward wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>   Torbjorn Lindgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 'Mutineers Moon' was the first book by Weber that I read.
>>>
>>> Wasn't it his first published work?
>>
>> Nope, his first published NOVEL was Insurrection with Steve White
>> (it's the same for him), Wikipedia says the contract was signed in
>> 1989 and that it was published in 1990.
>>
>> Before this he worked on the Task Force game Starfire and they MAY
>> have published something that constitutes "published work" and where
>> he wrote at least some of it.
> 
> David Weber wrote the _Starfire III: Empires_, which added strategic
> level rules to the original Starfire game.

It is a matter of bafflement to me that there every was a Starfire game 
that didn't have strategic rules, considering how dull the tactical 
rules were on their own.  The interesting built was building the empire 
and designing and building a fleet that would be victorious.