Discuss spaceship games.Show off painted spaceships.Talk about spaceships.>Thread QuestionWhat is the best space combat game ever created and why do you love it so much?
>>98398820If you just wanted a Babylon 5 thread why didn't you just ask OP?
>>98398820Battlefleet Gothic cuz ramming is fun.
How does /tg/ feel about Starfleet Battles?
>>98399117Surprisingly fun if you like spreadsheet autism. Sadly everyone I knew who played it has since died and nobody I could get was interested in trying it.
>>98399117>>98399155Actually not that bad at all, when you boil the rules down, it's just count this amount of energy, allocate it and roll per point of damage on a table. Yes, there are some complicated rules (mainly about how this rule relates to that) but it's more slow than complicated. Unless you use EW of course. I love it, have been playing it since 1980 and will continue to, but it is very old school and I don't like how all races have to have all the same type of ship just with different weapons, it does make a lot of it feel samey. We did a Fed vs Kzin fleet battle over a weekend about a month ago... well, I think we managed three turns what with all the fighters and drones, so use the newer game for speed and SFB for completeness!
>>98398820It's a toss up between Full Thrust and Starmada. Both are great in their own ways though I do give the edge to Starmada as with the latest edition you can pretty much emulate Full Thrust 1 to 1.
>>98400103>Starmada>Card activation systemHaram.
>>98398820I'm am FOREVER salty that the Homeworld game by Modiphipiss was a disaster with a literally unusual rulebook and a fuckton of behind-the-scenes drama that killed any chance of it ever actually succeeding.I wanted the Beast to get models.I wanted a Deserts of Kharak tabletop game.FUCK MODIPHIUSFUCK THEM FOREVER
>>98400497It really was a game with literally limitless potential and the chance to be be pure, unrefined KINO. The fact they fucked it up so bad is genuinely insane to me.Did anyone ever make a good "Totally Not Homeworld" tabletop game?
>>98400497>>98400826Didn't know this was thing. They fucked up how? QRD?
>>98400826>>98400497The Homeworld series is fundamentally unsuited to tabletop gaming, because the whole thing that made Homeworld's version of space combat so unique was that it allowed for fully 3D movement in a time when every other strategy game was locked to a 2D plane.
I like Flick Fleet.
>>98401682Especially like how misfires can still turn into successes.And how tthe physical details of the different weapon dice actually matter in terms of flick potential.
>>98401682So it's Subbuteo in space?Speaking of which, been a while since we had a Subbuteo thread, hasn't it? Which is strange, considering the World Cup only just ended.
>>98401835Never heard of Subbuteo. Looks great. Flick Fleet is a bit more rigid. Every ship has a placard of defenses and systems that give abilities, various types of attacks, and different tiers of survivability.Theres a point system for list building, and a lot of fun fan brewed scenarios.
>>98401664>Homeworld uses 3D movement>Therefore you can't represent it on the tabletopNigga never heard of Aeronautica Imperialis or Dropfleet Commander.
>>98403231KEK
>>98398820>besr space combat gameBattlefleet Gothic
>>98400497>I wanted a Deserts of Kharak tabletop game.Why did you have to ruin my day. It's saturday ffs, I was enjoying it so well.
>>98405408It would be so peak T_T
>>98400313what rule system are you talking about?https://www.wargamevault.com/en/product/472034/starmada-core-rulebook
for me, it's Attack Vector: Tactical
>>98398820>TQHalo Fleet Battles was fucking KINO and deserved to live. FUCK SPARTAN GAMES
>>98398831Wasn't there some bab5 fleet game?I just finished the series and the last of the movies not too long ago and it's such a good show. Though I am still left with a couple lingering questions.
Star Wars Armada was, by far, the greatest space game ever released. Can't believe they killed it tbhon
>>98406930Babylon five had no less than 3 official fleet gamesB5WarsFleet ActionA Call to Arms
Shit ruleset, fantastic models. Why did it had to die? Those models have so much potential! The molds are the expensive part you did the investment just sell them to the chinks or something.
star wars armada being a fantastic game but bein killed due to IP dependency makes me think that the genre needs a setting-agnostic game to really be evergreenbut capital ship nerds are almost entirely fans of a specific franchise, so that will never happen
>>98410235>Shit rulesetHow fucking dare you
>>98398820Distant Broken StarsIt doesn't actually exist and thus has no flaws.
>>98405912A man of cultureSquadron Strike, also.Speaking of which, anyone tried the Traveller expansion of SS? I've been looking for a system to use for space combat in my campaign (so one ship for the whole team), I'm wondering if I could use it for that?
>>98398820>TQThe OG.It manages newtonian physics and gravity seamlessly, purely visually, without needing any math.
>>98401538Not who you replied to but I was a backer on Kickstarter for it. The game was literally unplayable. Some of the most convoluted and needlessly complicated rules I have ever seen to the point that the included mission campaign was just a long tutorial that gradually added mechanics. Imagine needing to play ten games just to start to understand the rules.
>>98403231>Aeronautica ImperialisACK! Too soon :'(
Jesus Christ is this whole thread just people lamenting dead games? Wtf do all space games die?
>>98414100My game is still alive and getting a new box of the xeno factions sometime this year. :3
>>98411638Prove me wrong.
>>98414104Dropfleet?
The power curve system is so cool.https://www.gmtgames.com/p-910-talon-3rd-printing.aspx
>>98414261Nope, FlickFleethttps://gamefound.com/en/projects/eurydice-games-ltd/flickfleet-box-of-xeno-flicks-2#/section/project-story
Battlefleet Gothic
>Talk about spaceships.Sell me on the current edition of Dropfleet Commander.
>>98418090It's fun. I enjoy it. Models are good. Not great, but good.
