Joe_Dracos
Mongoose
mikelosaurus said:
He has already ruled out anything with only two sides.
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He has already ruled out anything with only two sides.
Armydillo978
Mongoose
Greg Smith said:I've just seen the first draft of the rules.
Don't be a tease, love. Tell us more.
Greg Smith
Mongoose
it is still ACTA with the same movement, AD, special orders, many of the the same traits, etc etc.
The boarding rules are interesting. Taking control of the bridge is vital.
The shield rules are a very significant part of starship combat as almost every ship has them.
The boarding rules are interesting. Taking control of the bridge is vital.
The shield rules are a very significant part of starship combat as almost every ship has them.
treknogeek
Mongoose
I'm not so sure about the SG option. Believe me, I wish I was. My firstborn recognized the theme song at one day old, our second is named Samantha, and our dog Rodney . . . but I don't see SG filling the need for types and varieties of ships and tactics, although it would be ideal for boarding actions. The Gould have 4 capital ship designs (2 of which are unique) and even fewer fighter and mid-ranged ships, and they have the most options of any of the races.
However, if imagination was used and more ship classes created . . .
Ah, I just hope I'm wrong and you guy's SG prediction is correct.
Joe_Dracos
Mongoose
If there ever was a restriction on the ship classes based on what was seen on TV B5 wars and the original ACTA's would have had much smaller fleets. They would have created more ships so the limited number of ships seen on the show should not restrict the fleets sizes.
*prepares flame shield*
My hat would be in the "almost anything but Stargate" pile. I liked SG-1, but never really got into the sequel/spin-offs, so my lack of fandom most likely skews my love for the ships designs. They worked well for the show, but even when I liked the show, I thought most of them were fairly ugly or uninteresting.
I think that Halo or Mass Effect would be better, but for whatever reason both of these seem gimmicky. I would like some of the ship models, but I would worry that the table-top game would last as long as the hype for the games themselves. In three years when no one cares about Mass Effect and Space Alligators: Origins is the sci-fi video game to beat, I wouldn't want mongoose to repeat ACTA history. I also worry about new sculpts. A very small percentage of the original mongoose ship sculpts were table worthy, imo.
My hopes are still on a Noble Armada spin-off. The ship models are mostly great, there are existing molds of them, it gives the writers a lot of room to expand and improve, plus it isn't as polarizing with trolls/fanboys who will argue the rules versus how it worked in the video game/books/whatever.
My hat would be in the "almost anything but Stargate" pile. I liked SG-1, but never really got into the sequel/spin-offs, so my lack of fandom most likely skews my love for the ships designs. They worked well for the show, but even when I liked the show, I thought most of them were fairly ugly or uninteresting.
I think that Halo or Mass Effect would be better, but for whatever reason both of these seem gimmicky. I would like some of the ship models, but I would worry that the table-top game would last as long as the hype for the games themselves. In three years when no one cares about Mass Effect and Space Alligators: Origins is the sci-fi video game to beat, I wouldn't want mongoose to repeat ACTA history. I also worry about new sculpts. A very small percentage of the original mongoose ship sculpts were table worthy, imo.
My hopes are still on a Noble Armada spin-off. The ship models are mostly great, there are existing molds of them, it gives the writers a lot of room to expand and improve, plus it isn't as polarizing with trolls/fanboys who will argue the rules versus how it worked in the video game/books/whatever.
ACTA was based on B5W, and there were big gaps in TOEs to fill in.
Stargate literally has all the Earth ships are named ships you see on screen.
It would be neat to see them, but BSG would be something I'd like to see far more (particularly the original war).
I can't see it being Stargate or Farscape.
Stargate literally has all the Earth ships are named ships you see on screen.
It would be neat to see them, but BSG would be something I'd like to see far more (particularly the original war).
I can't see it being Stargate or Farscape.
Greg Smith
Mongoose
Ben2 said:
Yes.
Starship combat games often add ships to canon to make games viable, even going back as far as FASA's Star Trek starship combat simulator.
But BSG suffers from a lack of races, something that Matt has said in the past was a hinderance to the success of Starship Troopers. (Not that I am ruling out BSG).
treknogeek said:
Not I. I've never been all that enamored of Stargate, and certainly not as a space battle game. If it is that then I doubt I will pick it up unless as I've previously mentioned there is an easy and complete means of porting the new system back to B5. But that's just me.
Cheers, Gary
hiffano said:
From Planet Mongoose, 30/8/10:
So even if the fleet lists have been expanded, it won't be as excessive as it was for B5:ACTA, very few of whose ships appeared on screen and some of whose fleets contain no ships from the show at all.
And now in Planet Mongoose, 8/9/10:
Another couple of clues from an earlier post by Matt in this thread:
msprange said:
Let the speculation continue.
In particular, was anyone at GenCon who can guess the identity of the other side of the "chance meeting"?
