Looking For 28mm sci-fi skirmish rules

[The_Beast]

Check out Five Parsecs From Home. http://www.wargamevault.com/m/product/132176

"PLEASE NOTE: This is an expansion for the FiveCore system. You will require a copy of the FiveCore main rules (or Five Men in Normandy) to use these rules."  Unfortunately, you have to expand the text to see this; I'd bought FiveCore already when I got Five Parsecs, but others may miss this.

Is Stargrunt II a yea or nay in this convo?

Doug

[hummus]

As stated already, Mutants and Deathray Guns and Flying Lead from Ganesha Games, or One Page Kill Team may be worth checking out.

If you like MDRG check out this blog
http://interloperminiatures.com/2016/05/info-dump/

[Billchuck]

"PLEASE NOTE: This is an expansion for the FiveCore system. You will require a copy of the FiveCore main rules (or Five Men in Normandy) to use these rules."  Unfortunately, you have to expand the text to see this; I'd bought FiveCore already when I got Five Parsecs, but others may miss this.

Shoot, I forgot that. I named it based on my experience with the FiveCore rules and the OP's desire for scifi. Get FiveCore instead, then. There's plenty of good stuff in there.

[mcfonz]

Try https://iten-game.org/

Although aimed at people who like the 40k fluff it doesn't have to be used for that setting.

[dijit]

One of the more solid rulesets I've played in this genere is AE Bounty by Darkson Designs. It uses D6 rolls and has a fairly free build system. Though to be honest it's space opera rather than near future, but a good ruleset all the same.

[Sir_Theo]

One of the most interesting skirmish rulesets I've read lately is Rogue Planet by Brent Spivey. A little off the wall but worth a look for something different!

[Ironhead]

Is Stargrunt II a yea or nay in this convo?

Still my favorite by far, but I'm entertaining Mutants and Deathrays.

[steders]

Is Stargrunt II a yea or nay in this convo?
Doug

Not strictly skirmish rules
I found them to be a disappointment unfortunately. Everything is great and flows well (opposed die rolls, different dice for troop quality and different colours for morale as I remember) then it all comes to a massive standstill whilst you go through the laborious 'who buys the farm' process. Real shame as I love the 'hard' sci-fi setting. Lots of counters as well which I'm not a big fan of.
just my 2 pennies worth, best to download them for free and give them a run out.

[The_Beast]

...then it all comes to a massive standstill whilst you go through the laborious 'who buys the farm' process. Real shame as I love the 'hard' sci-fi setting. Lots of counters as well which I'm not a big fan of.

The first, sort of the way I feel about my fav space game, Full Thrust, but there are workarounds. Definitely agree about the second point, though, again, I would find substitutions.

just my 2 pennies worth, best to download them for free and give them a run out.

As well as Dirtside, Full Thrust, and drooling on the keyboard at the figs.  

Doug

Edit:

Shoot, I forgot that. I named it based on my experience with the FiveCore rules and the OP's desire for scifi. Get FiveCore instead, then. There's plenty of good stuff in there.

On my pile of 'skim, will I ever get to play?' only a few feet away as I type, right there beside AE Bounty. However, I've a feeling once trying Five Core, if it pleases, Five Parsecs is a very natural progression. I think there's a bit of a problem with versions, which Nordic Weasel has promised to sort out on the Vault soon.