Space Combat Game

[Jaeger]

A new game I've been Brewing for a while.

So far I've purchased a whole lot of plastic Spaceships:





And I'm almost done with my hex-table:



(I plan on using it for Battletech also, so that's why it's green).

[Machinegunkelly]

Aren´t those three ships top left from the old Buck Rogers game?

[Jaeger]

They might be. I just bought a few bags I liked from ebay.

[dijit]

Looking very nice, do you have a link to where you got the ships from? If you want more have a look at EM4.
Duncan

[Jaeger]

Search "plastic Space ship" on ebay.com and you get a few to choose from.

I even think there's a EM4 seller too.

[Jaeger]

I'm currently looking into what classes and weapons I want to add:

Name of the game: ?

Ship Classes:
Draconis
Centauri
Scorpii
Lupi
Vela
Cygnus
Deneb
Vega
Leonis
Sadir
Crux
Cetus
Andromeda
Sirius
Orion
Aldebaran
Taurus
Gemini
Pollux
Castor
Arcturus
Corvus
Nebula

Weapons:
Laser
Missile
Plasma
Scram Cannon
Mass Driver/Rail gun
Kinetic Penetrator
Particle Projector

Feel free to join in with suggestions.

[dijit]

Have you had a look at silent death for a possible rule set?

[Jaeger]

Nope. I really want to make this from scratch.

Unless Silent Death has a ship generation system?

[dijit]

It does and it seems to be getting a bit of a rehaul at the moment.

[Jaeger]

Ah ok. I like the idea of using different dice.

I'm currently looking into a re-write of a free ruleset called Sky Full Of Ships.

[The_Beast]

Aren´t those three ships top left from the old Buck Rogers game?

Rtght-o. Fighter, battler, transport.

The others (edit: in the top row) were for 'gumball machine' toy dispensers (edit part deux: an eBay seller claims they are cereal box prizes). The designs include things from Message From Space, a Vic Morrow live-action-attempts-anime movie that I can't decide if I love or hate.

I've a metric b***load of each, but I admire someone who'll actually get them used!

Doug

[dijit]

A quick question, what size are your hexes? So I can work out how big the star fighters are?

[HerbyF]

I have the one third from the right top row in my collection of ship some where. It is a silver hard plastic and it came out of a gum ball machine. Mine is at least 30 years old.

[Elbows]

Is the table remaining green?  I do recognize the Buck Rogers ship.  Also, they're perhaps 1"-1.5" in diameter - quite small really.

[dijit]

I'm just wondering how they scale with EM4's starfighters.