Thunderchicken, you realise that within our local* VSF gaming group members we have about three copies of that rule book. Feel free to borrow a copy to see what you think of them, I'll hand you a copy at BLAM if you want, or could post it if you want to read sooner.
*admittedly, only the colonial types with their huge countries could call Shrewesbury, London, Plymouth, Nottingham, Western-super-mare etc local to each other but we all meet up!