Anyone play Crimson Skies?, The non-Clicky version. Options

[Frag-o Delux]

I am just sitting here bored and thinking about playing Crimson Skies next week with a few friends. We used to play a few games while everyone gathered and settled down to our SR session. Well we haven't had a lot of Crimson Skies sessions lately, but a friend called me a few weeks ago after he moved and found all my Crimson Skies junk I forgot I left at his place.

I had high hopes for that game when it came out, I seen some promo shots before it was released and thought they were going to have a altittude system and everything, a more 3D system if you will, instead of a flat 2D system which makes it feel like a car chase more then dog fighting. Even though it was 2D it was, I feel a very interesting game with simultanious turns. I just like planes, dog fights and the 30's with the big bands and swing music. I thought the whole flavor of the game was really cool. In fact I liked it so much I thought it would be an awsome RPG, sort of like Mechwarrior for Battletech. But the crash of FASA ment I was not going to get it. In fact I was very disapointed when I heard nothing would be done with it, heart broken even, then when I heard it was going to become a clicky I had a panic attack of sorts. I like Hero clicks but despise Mage Knight, so I was curious as to how Crimson Skies was going to be handled. Well to my dismay I feel it is not a very good game. Personal preferrence and I guess my non-Clicky experience has jaded me. A friend that doesn't have a lot of money to buy the metals that are still floating around and a sever lack of talent in the painting department came up with what I thought was a novel idea, buy the clickies and use them with the non-Clicky system, which I think I'll do also because I really don't have the time to paint up a bunch of squadrons.

So to cut my ramblings down a bit. Does anyone still play the non-Clicky version, and do you think the Crimson Skies universe would make an interesting RPG? I think it would be very interesting. I might one day try to through it together, not as a purposal or anything just as a lark. Something my gaming circle would play, well at least the 3 or 4 of us that enjoyed Crimson Skies. Really it would probably be something I would really enjoy, but the rest of the group probably wouldn't. Like I said I am a fan of the 30's the big bands, swing, the movies like Maltese Falcon and Indiana Jones, the pre WWII Cloak and Dagger type feel, and fluff that filled Crimson Skies Material. With the skill based system in the mini game I feel a skill based character system like Shadowrun would be the way to go, with a damage location chart that mimics the plane damage sheet, just a try to tie the RPG into the Minigame. So any thoughts, good idea or has the chesse fallen off my cracker?