Alterative Inititive proposal
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Wulf Corbett
Mongoose
I shall propose it for second edition (although personally I have no problem with Boresights, this DOES make sense).Ripple said:
Track Target! CQ Check 9
The ship declares a specific target ship before moving, then makes it's movement with one less Turn than allowed. At the end of the Movement Phase, the ship may attempt to Boresight the target ship by making one more Turn. No other ship may be fired on, even if the target ship has moved out of arc for Boresighting.
That looks limited enough to me, but would give those who have problems with Boresighting some help. It's going to be of limited use to ships with 1/45 Turn rate though...
Wulf
Thank you Wulf, I appreciate you bringing it up. (Off hand I would put it at CQ 8 - fifty fifty seems a nice balance to the automatic CAF the F arc boys get.)
It would be particularly useful for late game where with only a few ships left winning initiative often is all that matters for a turn if your boresighted.
Ripple
It would be particularly useful for late game where with only a few ships left winning initiative often is all that matters for a turn if your boresighted.
Ripple
What about a car-wars-esque movement system, where movement is broken into 3 "phases" each turn? Movement would have to be done in 1/2 inch segements though. you could fire after any portion of the 3 movement segmants.
Probably would result in slowing down the game some I'm sure...
Chern
Probably would result in slowing down the game some I'm sure...
Chern
Slightly Norse John
Mongoose
Past about seven or eight ships a side, that would become a major load of paperwork. Keeping running tallies for each craft of which phase it was in, how many of it's weapons and turns it had already used- given a normal amount of banter across and confusion around a games table, nobody's going to remember.
It would not be impossible, nor illogical for a system with a lot of complexity in it anyway- Brilliant Lances gave ships with more exotic drives more move phases- but it's more record keeping than a lot of people on the boards, including me, have said they were willing to put up with in the past.
It would not be impossible, nor illogical for a system with a lot of complexity in it anyway- Brilliant Lances gave ships with more exotic drives more move phases- but it's more record keeping than a lot of people on the boards, including me, have said they were willing to put up with in the past.
At the end of the day I think the current system works fine but the SA idea might be an interesting add on.
BTW: Locutus, it is Hari Seldon, that is also one of my favorite series of books. It is simply the cover art from one of the paperbacks ( sorry to dissapoint you )
Cheers
BTW: Locutus, it is Hari Seldon, that is also one of my favorite series of books. It is simply the cover art from one of the paperbacks ( sorry to dissapoint you )
Cheers
Locutus9956
Mongoose
Acutally then Seldon I have since found there was/is a movie version planned though I cant find much on it thats recent (so it may have dissapeared sadly as a well done movie series of Foundation would be right up there with Lord of the Rings for best movie adpatations ever 
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(If done well, of course the project is/was incredibly daunting, I mean how do you make a movie about a set of events set over the course of a 1000 years (and for those who havent read them I dont mean as in a brief prologue subtitled 1034 BC that then cuts to another scene that says 1000 years later and the movie carries on as normal the story jumps forward a hundred years every so often but each part of the story would be too short to do as a proper movie I suspect....
Actually though thinking about it if they did each period as a seperate relatively short movie that could almost work though that might lead to some of those short movies being much duller cinematically than others...
Still.... I'm hoping it does get done eventually. I want to see Trantor on screen, they did Corucant pretty well in the Star Wars prequels (though I wont get started on the REST of those movies....) but the way Asimov describes Trantor in the books could make for some amazing scenes....
)(If done well, of course the project is/was incredibly daunting, I mean how do you make a movie about a set of events set over the course of a 1000 years (and for those who havent read them I dont mean as in a brief prologue subtitled 1034 BC that then cuts to another scene that says 1000 years later and the movie carries on as normal the story jumps forward a hundred years every so often but each part of the story would be too short to do as a proper movie I suspect....
Actually though thinking about it if they did each period as a seperate relatively short movie that could almost work though that might lead to some of those short movies being much duller cinematically than others...
Still.... I'm hoping it does get done eventually. I want to see Trantor on screen, they did Corucant pretty well in the Star Wars prequels (though I wont get started on the REST of those movies....) but the way Asimov describes Trantor in the books could make for some amazing scenes....
