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Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
Borg, incredibly dull to model, and even duller to fight.
Can barely remember the dominion, weren't they just a coalition of different races rub by a bunch of shape shifters. Failing to remember anything worth doing there.
SFB, first ship to ship combat game I ever played, and never equalled for detail.
Can barely remember the dominion, weren't they just a coalition of different races rub by a bunch of shape shifters. Failing to remember anything worth doing there.
SFB, first ship to ship combat game I ever played, and never equalled for detail.
well the borg can have more going by the various films and computer games - diamonds, spheres, rectangles, scout ships etc.
dominion have alot of differant stuff available, kind of a hardcore LONAW as they were pretty tough.
plus in TNG/DS9 and filsm things have heated up between alot of races, klingons, romulans, cardassians all getting a piece of the action at times.
theres also species 8472.
so lots of races, lots of scope, could be good.
dominion have alot of differant stuff available, kind of a hardcore LONAW as they were pretty tough.
plus in TNG/DS9 and filsm things have heated up between alot of races, klingons, romulans, cardassians all getting a piece of the action at times.
theres also species 8472.
so lots of races, lots of scope, could be good.
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
Forgive me, but I'm just not a trek fan.
Just think Farscape has a lot more potential for wargaming, as well as being more fun to watch.
Just think Farscape has a lot more potential for wargaming, as well as being more fun to watch.
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
Poi: I would, but who knows. The series had a good following by the time the studio f***ed it so maybe.
katadder: There were at least three massive empires with definite fleets of very different warships, and a lot of smaller races with their own ships. Would have to go back to the DVDs to see how much detail there is on any of them though, not watched them in a few years.
katadder: There were at least three massive empires with definite fleets of very different warships, and a lot of smaller races with their own ships. Would have to go back to the DVDs to see how much detail there is on any of them though, not watched them in a few years.
Farscape Races with militaries
Peace Keepers - - Starting ships - Command Carriers, Scrub Runners, Prowlers, Vigilantees, Marauders, Levainthans, Gammak base,
Luxans - varied warships
Nebari - ?
Scarrens - Dreadnought, fighters,
actually probably at least as many ships and races as seen on B5 if not
more
ST is alos good but there are quite a few versions already out there? - We did have a fun series of BFG vs Star Trek battles using BFG rules 8) Borg vs the Imperium was good
Peace Keepers - - Starting ships - Command Carriers, Scrub Runners, Prowlers, Vigilantees, Marauders, Levainthans, Gammak base,
Luxans - varied warships
Nebari - ?
Scarrens - Dreadnought, fighters,
actually probably at least as many ships and races as seen on B5 if not
moreST is alos good but there are quite a few versions already out there? - We did have a fun series of BFG vs Star Trek battles using BFG rules 8) Borg vs the Imperium was good
sidewinder
Mongoose
some how I cant see a cube losing to imperials.
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
Da Boss said:
Emperor-class battleships dont have Nova cannon...
Arch Lector Petrovski
Mongoose
I'd throw my hat in with the Star Trek one. For one it is practically the epitomy of sci-fi and due to its popularity and huge audience it would be liable to make a very good investment on obtaining the license. Also it would mean that people could finally fight those 'what if?' scenarios such as the Enterprise-D vs the EAS Furies (or the like). As for miniatures I'm sure that with Mongoose's new buisness relationship with Iron Wind they could arrange something or just run off counters for now with a hope of making the minatures in the future should the project prove profitable.
In terms of fleets you've got everything from the Federation, Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians and the like to appearences by the Sheliak, Kazon, and Hirogen. There's scope for further developement and supplements; Alpha, delta, gamma and beta quadrant books and possibly a temporal anomalies source book; time ships, Krenim ship (Voyage:Year of Hell) and alternate timelines such as the three nascels Enterprise and the Aliance ships. Plus it could be split into a post and pre TNG, pre including the Vulcans, Orions and Sulaban and post including things like the Dominion (probably a Jem'Hada fleet with a few points allowed from the Cardassian and Breen lists), Species 8472 and the Sona (Insurrection).
Also as has been said there are a number of fan/player made systems or mods out there, proving its popularity and saleability. Just because it has been done before is no reason not to do it, especially if it can be done well/better and a good bit of profit made out of it.
As for the other suggestions:
Battle Star Galactica wouldn't really work for the reasons mentioned and the fact of only two fleets.
Star Wars unless you're going rally early or really late you only have a couple of fleet options, plus the license fee would be disturbingly immense.
Farscape I don't know enough about to really comment on it but I think the audience size would be abit limiting.
Stargate would be nice to see, but I think it would work better as a Battlefield Evolution game and the fleet options would be rather limited without some 'maginative thinking'.
Traveller (or something else of their own design) the audience potential probably wouldn't be as strong as any of the others and they would have probably mentioned that as it is in house and there's no possibility of a license not coming through for it.
Another possible nice option would be Andromeda, though this suffers from similar problems to Stargate and Farscape, though it would be good to see.
In terms of fleets you've got everything from the Federation, Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians and the like to appearences by the Sheliak, Kazon, and Hirogen. There's scope for further developement and supplements; Alpha, delta, gamma and beta quadrant books and possibly a temporal anomalies source book; time ships, Krenim ship (Voyage:Year of Hell) and alternate timelines such as the three nascels Enterprise and the Aliance ships. Plus it could be split into a post and pre TNG, pre including the Vulcans, Orions and Sulaban and post including things like the Dominion (probably a Jem'Hada fleet with a few points allowed from the Cardassian and Breen lists), Species 8472 and the Sona (Insurrection).
Also as has been said there are a number of fan/player made systems or mods out there, proving its popularity and saleability. Just because it has been done before is no reason not to do it, especially if it can be done well/better and a good bit of profit made out of it.
As for the other suggestions:
Battle Star Galactica wouldn't really work for the reasons mentioned and the fact of only two fleets.
Star Wars unless you're going rally early or really late you only have a couple of fleet options, plus the license fee would be disturbingly immense.
Farscape I don't know enough about to really comment on it but I think the audience size would be abit limiting.
Stargate would be nice to see, but I think it would work better as a Battlefield Evolution game and the fleet options would be rather limited without some 'maginative thinking'.
Traveller (or something else of their own design) the audience potential probably wouldn't be as strong as any of the others and they would have probably mentioned that as it is in house and there's no possibility of a license not coming through for it.
Another possible nice option would be Andromeda, though this suffers from similar problems to Stargate and Farscape, though it would be good to see.
Greg Smith
Mongoose
Wizards already have a Star Wars ship battles game, so I doubt it would be that.
Arch Lector has it right - with TNG - DS9 - Voyager timelines you'd have core fleets of Federation, Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians with Dominion and Borg as significant others. Other races such as Ferengi, Hirogen, Kazon and Species 8472 would be there from the start but probably as partial fleets (much as most of the League fleets were in 1st ed. A Call to Arms) that could be easily expanded later. If it is to be Trek, I'd like to see it start this way and expand later rather than take in loads of the fan kitbashes and ships from other gaming systems from the start (that are unofficial anyway).
Stargate would be the one other universe that would work really well for my money although I can't honestly say I've seen more than a handful of episodes.
Star Wars would have plenty of potential but would not only be very expensive, but may not be an option anyway.
I've never watched any of the other series (at all!)
Stargate would be the one other universe that would work really well for my money although I can't honestly say I've seen more than a handful of episodes.
Star Wars would have plenty of potential but would not only be very expensive, but may not be an option anyway.
I've never watched any of the other series (at all!)
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
There's no way either the Borg or 8472 could be included and maintain any claim to accuracy of any sort. An entire Starfleet taskforce can't stop a single Borg vessel by brute firepower, only the plot-powered Enterprise/Voyager crew could do it. Same for 8472, they slaughter the Borg in ship combat, no one without the Voyager plot-factor could beat them.
There are masses of Star Trek races without being silly and including the unbeatable ones.
There are masses of Star Trek races without being silly and including the unbeatable ones.
In First Contact a taskforce of 20-30 ships just about defeated a Borg Cube through raw firepower. I'd say that's far from being silly. 8472 ships are even more powerful as you say but for a Borg vs. 8472 encounter, that may just about be possible...Lord David the Denied said:
Either way - they wouldn't be intended as common fleets, more scenario specific stuff.
