Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles

[Faust23]

In 31 years of active wargaming and in 12 years of professional game design, I've never seen a better set of space combat rules than this. THEY SHOULD WIN ALL THE AWARDS!

So say we all!

[Faust23]

Anyone here play this game yet?

I'm really impressed by not only the high quality of the paint jobs on the ships, but the rules are ground breaking and IMO the best space dogfight rules ever written.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I only know about them from the promo on the front page of Dark Sphere's web store and this post.

So take some photographs and tell us about it.

[AKULA]

Wings of War with Vipers.

You’ve been able to buy suitable models for WoW from Shapeways for years, but it will be interesting to see the official models first hand.

 

[n815e]

It is an evolution of Wings of War, for sure.  To just call it Wings of War with Vipers doesn’t convey the enhanced movement rules as well as it should.

[Agis]

Sounds interesting!

Is there an official website with some rules to download?
And - how much ships are covered, just Vipers and Raiders?

[n815e]

https://www.aresgames.eu/games/battlestar-galactica-starship-battles-line

[Ultravanillasmurf]

https://www.aresgames.eu/games/battlestar-galactica-starship-battles-line

Good to know.

So the box set has two of the "Reimagined" Cylon fighters and two of the "Original"/Old Fashioned/difficult to pwn Vipers?

I had assumed the MkII Viper box contained the "Reimagined" current Viper, but peering at the photograph on the site would seem to indicate it was an additional non-networked dual universe one.

They do not seem very proud of the models on their site.

[NurgleHH]

In 31 years of active wargaming and in 12 years of professional game design, I've never seen a better set of space combat rules than this. THEY SHOULD WIN ALL THE AWARDS!

So say we all!

1. which Company, never saw any advertise.
2. pictures?

[Faust23]

Wings of War with Vipers.

You’ve been able to buy suitable models for WoW from Shapeways for years, but it will be interesting to see the official models first hand.

 

Nope, this isn't WoW with Vipers. The authors created an entirely new game that is IMO the greatest Vectored space combat game to date. Don't dismiss this as a reskin of their previous work. That's way off target.

[Faust23]

Good to know.

So the box set has two of the "Reimagined" Cylon fighters and two of the "Original"/Old Fashioned/difficult to pwn Vipers?

I had assumed the MkII Viper box contained the "Reimagined" current Viper, but peering at the photograph on the site would seem to indicate it was an additional non-networked dual universe one.

They do not seem very proud of the models on their site.

Best painted models from any boxed game I've ever seen. Re-imagined series is first. Capital ships to come as well, and the original series Vipers & Raiders will also appear down the road.

If you miss out on this, you will later wish you'd jumped in early.

[Faust23]

1. which Company, never saw any advertise.
2. pictures?

Which company makes the BSG game? Ares.
Google Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles and go from there.

[Agis]

Glimpsed at the rules and it all sounds interesting.

However, I am not sure if this property will take off.
The starter box seems to be almost 2x the price of a X-Wing starter.
The BSG IP has only VERY little ships to support a full wargame. .(

Colonial
Viper Mk I and II
Raptor and Heavy Raptor
Blackbird
Stealthstar
maybe Atmospheric Shuttle

Cylons
Raider
Heavy Raider

And counting prototype ships like the Blackbird is very optimistic; but FFG has done the same with Sabine's Tie fighter.

If they take in capital ships, you have mixed scales...
In addition you only have a lukewarm marketing campaign.
So all in all a mixed bag for me.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Best painted models from any boxed game I've ever seen. Re-imagined series is first. Capital ships to come as well, and the original series Vipers & Raiders will also appear down the road.

If you miss out on this, you will later wish you'd jumped in early.

That may be true, but they do not seem proud of them, no photographs on their site.

[AKULA]

Glimpsed at the rules and it all sounds interesting.

However, I am not sure if this property will take off.
The starter box seems to be almost 2x the price of a X-Wing starter.
The BSG IP has only VERY little ships to support a full wargame. .(

Colonial
Viper Mk I and II
Raptor and Heavy Raptor
Blackbird
Stealthstar
maybe Atmospheric Shuttle

Cylons
Raider
Heavy Raider

And counting prototype ships like the Blackbird is very optimistic; but FFG has done the same with Sabine's Tie fighter.

If they take in capital ships, you have mixed scales...
In addition you only have a lukewarm marketing campaign.
So all in all a mixed bag for me.

My thoughts exactly.

I’m a complete BSG geek and would love this to be a success, but I’ve been underwhelmed by the marketing so far.  Might see if I can get a peak at the rules, but I’m not sold on it yet....who am I kidding I’ll buy it...just because.