Futuristic Sub Warfare Project

[Bravo Six]

You ever get one of those ideas for a project you've had rattling around in your head for years, but you're not sure how to go about it until you write it all down? This is one of those.

Ages ago I found myself being a reluctant fan of SeaQuest DSV. It fell flat in so many ways, but it was interesting in so many others.  Especially the action under water. Sadly, it ended up getting worse as the seasons  wore on, and it basically became Star Trek Underwater. In 2000 I started playing the PC Game Submarine Titans and that also fueled my desire to represent futuristic sub combat on a tabletop. Fast forward to now…. like most gamers, I need another project like I need a whole in the head, but I think this one may actually have some legs.

For ships, I always thought Cold Navy vessels from Ravenstar would be perfect for futuristic subs as they have that sort of look. And ocean floor buildings could be represented by any number of 6mm sci-fi buildings.

I have yet to locate an ocean floor style game mat, but am still looking.

Open to thoughts and input from anyone who also may have considered, or even gamed with idea before. There was an old topic on it ages ago on TMP and I think Nazrat and NVDoyle added their input but as I say that was ages ago and I can't seem to find the topic.

[Gibby]

Great idea for a project. Will be interested to see how this goes! X-Com Terror From the Deep somehow springs to mind here as well!

[Bravo Six]

X-Com Terror From the Deep somehow springs to mind here as well!

Yes! That too!

[Cacique Caribe]

Fantastic project idea.

All you need now is a kraken, a megalodon and a few kaiju. 

[Bravo Six]

I knew you would say that. 

I forgot about this game too. Never owned it but the screen caps looked good back in the day.

[Gibby]

The thing is, you could have two main "battle modes". Vessels fighting each other, and then another which is crew on undersea away missions/explorations, etc. Lots of scope with an idea such as this. Campaigns to gather artifacts from under the alien seas of Jupiter's moons... (ok I stole that from the computer game Barotrauma).

[Bravo Six]

Ooooh. Good ideas. 

[OSHIROmodels]

I'm liking this 

[Bravo Six]

I'm liking this

 

[Bravo Six]

I'd like to find some tiny designs like these to buzz around the larger subs. Like sub-fighters I suppose.

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Very cool BravoSix,

I live in South Wales and regularly see lorries with DSV in big letters across the trailers and always think “budget cuts?”  .

I love the idea and have wanted to do the same a couple of times over the years mainly inspired from an old amiga game called subwar 2050. I’d be tempted by some modded Full Thrust for the big subs and convoys etc, modified Silent Death for fighter sub duels and I’m not sure what for the sea bed chaps and vehicles side of things (sorry that last one isn’t much help - maybe striker?). GZGs various stargrunt and moon grunt chaps in lighter environment suits would suit if you wanted to go down to platoon size in 15mm.

Good luck with this I’m going to watch your progress and try not to start another project.

BALM

[Bravo Six]

I live in South Wales and regularly see lorries with DSV in big letters across the trailers and always think “budget cuts?”

 

Good luck with this I’m going to watch your progress and try not to start another project.

Sure ya do BALM. 

inspired from an old amiga game called subwar 2050

OH! I totally forgot about that game! 

[Easy E]

I created a 40K submarine game called Aquanautica Imperials: Battle for the Depths. 

Here is the link to the free rules PDF: https://app.box.com/s/b8g0spwqwow600z0ovii

Here is a battle report of how it went on the table: https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2019/09/battle-report-aquanautica-imperialis.html


Hopefully, it is helpful.  I think this is a fertile area for gaming that is relatively unexplored.   

[zemjw]

The scale may be totally wrong, but matchbox did a Jurassic Park submarine model a few years ago. It claims 1:64 scale and you could sit a 28mm figure inside, but there's nothing about it that really suggests its scale.



Available to buy here and pretty cheap.

If you do decide to have a 28mm component to it, eg diver combat, Reaper are worth checking out as they have some diver figures

[Bravo Six]

Hey, thanks for the input guys!

@Easy E, those rules look great! Some good ideas in there.