new space game?
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You know.....that doesn't remind me of a star destroyer so much as....I'm not quite sure what it reminds me of. But I've seen it before.
Ah. Yes. Now I place it. It's the old (old, old, old!) Gothic-class battleship from Space-Fleet, GW's forrunner to Battlefleet Gothic. Sadly the picture I have is on a piece of paper.
I understand what you mean about the 'sameness' of FT, ACTA and BFG. The thing is, that's all ultimately a factor of the size of game that's played; if a 'normal fleet' is about 5-10 capital ships (which it is in each game), a reliable one-shot-kill makes the game little more than a coin toss unless you have a 'dice-less' defence from it.
In each game the ships are 'tough' - that is they can usually sustain multiple turns of fire from a ship of equivalent size. A game with 'fragile' fleets would be interesting but would require much larger fleets to be playable over a similar length of time with similar levels of tactics.
Not that that's a bad thing. A properly epic fleet game would be impressive.
Lorcan Nagle
Mongoose
locarno24 said:
Or maybe the firestorm cruiser:
or the cobra destroyer:
I have to agree with that, though from what I've seen the Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato Game can handle large enough numbers easily.
MustEatBrains
Mongoose
Mage said:
So they have pratically pressed the "reset" button and gone back to what, 4-5 years ago?
See you in 2013 then, when things are back to interesting...
But damn, this must have been one hard decission to make, laying off practically everything that had set MGP apart from other companies... I remember a story on the blog not so long ago stating that Mongoose would expand in 2008. I think there was something in there like "if you have ever wanted to work in the gaming industry, 2008 is your chance", or something like that.
Guess that didn´t quite work out.
M1ndr1d3rs
Mongoose
Court Jester said:
Actually just 1. Assuming that MGP is truthful about the mothballing and having some sort of plan for 2009. But you've made your point...
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
Starwars and BSG are both two fleet settings, which might be a bit dull for a wargame.
I don't know SG1, how much ship combat was there in it?
Trek has a wider variety of races, but the ship combat was soooo random and inconsistant in terms of what the ships were capable of, it would be difficult to make any game fit what happened on screen.
Farscape might be interesting, there are a number of powerful races involved, and the ship designs were interesting at least. Personally of the options listed recently, it gets my vote.
I don't know SG1, how much ship combat was there in it?
Trek has a wider variety of races, but the ship combat was soooo random and inconsistant in terms of what the ships were capable of, it would be difficult to make any game fit what happened on screen.
Farscape might be interesting, there are a number of powerful races involved, and the ship designs were interesting at least. Personally of the options listed recently, it gets my vote.
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
Nightmares about Minbari said:
Off the top of my head, a Star Wars game could include the following fleets at various times in the setting:
Great Hyperspace War/Sith Wars:
Sith Empire
Galactic Republic
Galactic Civil War:
Rebel Alliance
Galactic Empire
Corporate Sector Authority
Hutt Cartels
Hapes Consortium
Various pirate groups
New Republic:
New Republic Navy
Imperial Remnant (various warlords)
Hapes Consortium
Corporate Sector Authority
Hutt Cartels
Various pirate groups
New Jedi Order:
New Republic Navy
Imperial Remnant
Yuuzhan Vong
Corporate Sector Authority
Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
OK, LDTD, but most of those I've never herd of, and neither will most people who arn't serious Starwars fans.
Even so, at any particular period there only seams to be two or three major fleets, then a selection of smaller powers.
Even so, at any particular period there only seams to be two or three major fleets, then a selection of smaller powers.
Locutus9956
Mongoose
Space Above and Beyond - Would be great but I suspect not really worth it since not that many people have heard of it outside of its cult following (and also youve basically only got 2 forces to choose from again)
Star Wars - Would be awesome but REALLY expensive to get the licence for... and as noted theres not a huge chocie of forces in terms of fleets (that said it seems to work well enough for the WoTC ground based Minis game, theres plenty of distinct factions there.
Battlestar Galactica
Would be extremely awesome. However it again suffers from '2 fleet syndrome' which for many people I know was the biggest problem with Starship Troopers the game. (Yes there were other races but noone really wanted to play them much)
Star Wars - Would be awesome but REALLY expensive to get the licence for... and as noted theres not a huge chocie of forces in terms of fleets (that said it seems to work well enough for the WoTC ground based Minis game, theres plenty of distinct factions there.
Battlestar Galactica
Would be extremely awesome. However it again suffers from '2 fleet syndrome' which for many people I know was the biggest problem with Starship Troopers the game. (Yes there were other races but noone really wanted to play them much)
I can think of three I'd like to see.
Ian M Banks The Culture series.
Alternatively, Andromeda, which was very similar in principle (even if the ship names were less.....characterful*).
Lastly, Honour Harrington Series.
A decent missile duel ruleset (complete with counter-missiles) would be interesting.
* Culture warships pick their own names. By far the best example, I think, is the Culture's Offensive Unit Do You Want To Take This Outside?
Ian M Banks The Culture series.
Alternatively, Andromeda, which was very similar in principle (even if the ship names were less.....characterful*).
Lastly, Honour Harrington Series.
A decent missile duel ruleset (complete with counter-missiles) would be interesting.
* Culture warships pick their own names. By far the best example, I think, is the Culture's Offensive Unit Do You Want To Take This Outside?
