New board games?

[Starlord]

Just curious: are there any plans to revise/republish any of the classic Traveller board games, like Fifth Frontier War, or Invasion Earth? Might be neat to see a modern take on some of them.

 

[Reynard]

What's a 'board game'?...

 

[sideranautae]

Just curious: are there any plans to revise/republish any of the classic Traveller board games, like Fifth Frontier War, or Invasion Earth? Might be neat to see a modern take on some of them.

I don't know that Mongoose has the Rights to any of the board games...

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

The board games were not rated all that high by reviewers.

 

[Reynard]

and yet I own most of them. That's why I don't listen to the reviewers as far as I can throw them off a cliff. Those who can't do, criticize.

 

[sideranautae]

and yet I own most of them. That's why I don't listen to the reviewers as far as I can throw them off a cliff. Those who can't do, criticize.

So true. Critics are by definition, critical.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

and yet I own most of them. That's why I don't listen to the reviewers as far as I can throw them off a cliff. Those who can't do, criticize.

Some people are collectors. They don't actually play Imperium or Invasion Earth. They just bought the games because they had a link to the Traveller Universe is all. When they think of reading the rules to play a game, the pieces are soon put back into the box.

 

[sideranautae]

and yet I own most of them. That's why I don't listen to the reviewers as far as I can throw them off a cliff. Those who can't do, criticize.

Some people are collectors. They don't actually play Imperium or Invasion Earth. They just bought the games because they had a link to the Traveller Universe is all. When they think of reading the rules to play a game, the pieces are soon put back into the box.

Really? And you personally know many of these people?

 

[Reynard]

I bought them and my friends and I played them quite a bit, some more than others. Collecting them because they were a Traveller game actually says something positive but they were played and I'll bet that goes for a lot of gamers that like(d) Traveller over the decades.

I don't believe gamers today actually understand the enjoyment of a board game with the obsessive advent of video games and I mean current video games that have almost entirely done away with strategy for mindless frag competitions. That would be the reason Mongoose may not revive any of the old game, sadly.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Much better board games would be Twilight Imperium 3rd edition, for example. Mongoose does their own line of board games with starships. People play these kind of board games now. Then there is Warhammer 40k of course. There are not enough Traveller players to gravitate towards one particular miniatures game. There are not enough Traveller players to gravitate towards one Traveller RPG system. All the polls show this.

Traveller players count for nothing in their city's largest game store. Traveller is not heard of by the store clerks. They might special order a Traveller book for you if they have re-seller connections. But their business if mostly Pathfinder and Warhammer and Magic cards.

 

[GypsyComet]

Traveller players count for nothing in their city's largest game store. Traveller is not heard of by the store clerks. They might special order a Traveller book for you if they have re-seller connections. But their business is mostly Pathfinder and Warhammer and Magic cards.

Sounds like you have a bad game store on your hands.

The board games were not rated all that high by reviewers.

Boardgamegeek really has no clue how to handle games that aren't "Euro".

 

[Reynard]

And a bad local gamer base when it comes to Traveller I guess. I'm well acquainted with my local game store for the last thirty years and Traveller holds it own as well as any game there. I see things come and go on the Traveller shelf and it always there even as so many other games and RPGs have long disappeared.

 

[Reynard]

Oh there's an idea! A remake of Mayday featuring minis of the iconic adventure ships with advanced rules for larger military battles. Maybe an adaptation of A Call To Arms. Just a though... as I was browsing my two Mayday boxed sets.

 

[dragoner]

I bought them and my friends and I played them quite a bit, some more than others. Collecting them because they were a Traveller game actually says something positive but they were played and I'll bet that goes for a lot of gamers that like(d) Traveller over the decades.

Yes, I bought Imperium before I bought anything Traveller related; later I bought The Fifth Frontier War, which had a dot matrix printed award, a title I think.

 

[GypsyComet]

I had and played Mayday and Snapshot quite a bit back in the day. Some of Shawn's criticisms do stick to AHL, though. That game really needs a Referee. Striker isn't a "boardgame" as such.

 

[Rick]

Funnily enough, a few people were chatting about where ACTA could go from here and I mentioned Traveller as a possibility. I had an idea that you could do 2 games: a big scale military fleet game and a smaller 'skirmish' game with adventure class ships. It would be more of a tabletop game, or games, rather than a board game, but there might be huge potential there.

 

[dragoner]

I had and played Mayday and Snapshot quite a bit back in the day. Some of Shawn's criticisms do stick to AHL, though. That game really needs a Referee. Striker isn't a "boardgame" as such.

We even played those as part of the RPG, Snapshot especially, the FASA deck plans were great; and then there were the non-board game abstract games, High Guard and Trillion Credit Squadron.

 

[Infojunky]

Oh there's an idea! A remake of Mayday featuring minis of the iconic adventure ships with advanced rules for larger military battles. Maybe an adaptation of A Call To Arms. Just a though... as I was browsing my two Mayday boxed sets.

The question is with a "remake" of Mayday what scale to use?

I kinda like the current close in scale that Mongoose has, though I have been considering the One Minute turns that a gent on this mentioned recently. Though I must mention that 3 chip Vector based games tend to bog with too many combatants. My preference is colored pencil on butcher paper for them, gives them that bridge plotting table feel.

Though to be honest an adaption to the ACTA probably would be grand as well.

 

[locarno24]

Though to be honest an adaption to the ACTA probably would be grand as well.

A Call To Arms: Power Projection would be quite nice. Mongoose might not be willing to rush into another iteration of ACTA just yet, though - both Star Fleet and Noble Armada have had to finish (along with B5 initially).

I know they started doing CG models of Imperium ships, and it'd be interesting to see, but miniatures games have a high cost requirement on them to get things started. By comparison, Traveller - especially pure soft copy/print on demand supplements - have no real cost to them outside the authors, artwork and layout.

That said, I would love to see this, and if Mongoose wish to step back into the space combat arena, and their licenses allow it, it would be perfect.