Going to make a SW Turn Based Naval Combat Game

[NecronLord]

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/iimperi ... /bombs.jpg

Spacebombs. Thats enough previews now, the rest are going to shep.

[Raptor 597]

Cool indeed, this game'll be fun.

[NecronLord]

I can't resist

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/iimperi ... /excec.jpg

Guess.

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/iimperi ... /torps.jpg

leading to target

[The Dark]

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/iimperi ... /bombs.jpg

Spacebombs. Thats enough previews now, the rest are going to shep.

It may just be me, but those look more like the Heavy Rockets than the Space Bombs, unless they changed them in XWA (which I've never seen).

[MKSheppard]

[Illuminatus Primus]

Did I? We'll I do go on the idea that 29 batterys is a misprint and it should be 92. But that should be more like 20. However Mediator seems to be a big destroyer, so I'm rating it around a bit above the ISD II, perhapes it should b esomehwat more.

Well, the NRDF considers the Mediator a battlecruiser, so I'm assuming that it'd be at least as prestegious as Home One, if not moreso. The latter dedicated a great deal of space to its carrier facilities and C4ISR systems, the Mediator may be a more balanced ship.

The New Republic also calls ships only 1000 meters long battlecruisers. The NJO is full of them. Theres seems to be some unknown KDY call floating around.

starship: Mediator, described as a Mon Calamari battlecruiser. This means that it is almost certainly larger, more heavily armed and armoured than the two types of cruisers at the Battle of Endor, and possibly approaching the size of Home One (depending on whether it's considered a battlesruiser, battleship or commandship in Mon Calamari terms). The use of the term "battlecruiser" is consistent throughout Vector Prime.

Yeah, but I'd think by now the Mon Cal definitions of ship classes would've caught up some with the KDY definitions; don't forget KDY is now a NR contractor too now.

[MKSheppard]

Expect to see THIS in the mod:

[NecronLord]

Expect to see THIS in the mod:

wierd

[MKSheppard]

Expect to see THIS in the mod:

wierd

You call the MIDWAY Class MegaCarrier "weird"?

Smite the Heretic for blaspheming Wing Commander!

[NecronLord]

Expect to see THIS in the mod:

wierd

You call the MIDWAY Class MegaCarrier "weird"?

Smite the Heretic for blaspheming Wing Commander!

You're wierd too.

PS. thought I recognised it.

[The Dark]

I don't remember if I asked this before, but I'll ask again:

Will it be possible to write in our own ships if we have the pic files and the necessary stats? Or will it be more along the lines of a "black box" game, where the ships that are in are in and those that are out are out?

[NecronLord]

As I understand it you will be able to.

[His Divine Shadow]

ISD I: 10000 pts
ISD II: 12000 pts

I'd say an ISDII is more powerfull than that, 14-15000 I'd say

[Vympel]

Midway is sad. Gimme the Vesuvius anyday. For a 'megacarrier' the Midway's armament is pathetic.

[MKSheppard]

I don't remember if I asked this before, but I'll ask again:

Will it be possible to write in our own ships if we have the pic files and the necessary stats? Or will it be more along the lines of a "black box" game, where the ships that are in are in and those that are out are out?

The more I think of it, the more I want this to be a classic pen and paper
board game using computers as a play aid, because that way, the game
"engine" will be 100% open to players like you who can put in their own stuff...

[NecronLord]

Yes. I thought that was your intention all along?

[phongn]

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/MKSheppar ... Winged.jpg

Unknown winged cruiser. It is not the Liberty-type. 1.5km long

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/MKSheppar ... MonCal.jpg

XWA claims that it is the MC80A cruiser. 1.4km long. It is markedly different than the wingless ship from the movies that is generally called the MC80.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/MKSheppar ... MonCal.jpg

XWA claims that it is the MC40A light cruiser. 500m long.

[Sea Skimmer]

I don't remember if I asked this before, but I'll ask again:

Will it be possible to write in our own ships if we have the pic files and the necessary stats? Or will it be more along the lines of a "black box" game, where the ships that are in are in and those that are out are out?

The more I think of it, the more I want this to be a classic pen and paper
board game using computers as a play aid, because that way, the game
"engine" will be 100% open to players like you who can put in their own stuff...

Drat, I'll never be able to find someone willing to do it pen and paper with the program a mere calculator.

[The Dark]

I don't remember if I asked this before, but I'll ask again:

Will it be possible to write in our own ships if we have the pic files and the necessary stats? Or will it be more along the lines of a "black box" game, where the ships that are in are in and those that are out are out?

The more I think of it, the more I want this to be a classic pen and paper
board game using computers as a play aid, because that way, the game
"engine" will be 100% open to players like you who can put in their own stuff...

I would ask if there's an AI, but from what I understand those are notoriously difficult to program properly. Just do whatever you feel is right, and I'm sure people will like it, and most likely give suggestions and tinker with it on their own .

[MKSheppard]

Drat, I'll never be able to find someone willing to do it pen and paper with the program a mere calculator.

What about me? I'm developing it for a pen-n-paper game engine
that allows you to play anyone over the internet in a setting that
resembles the pen n paper environment

[Sea Skimmer]

Drat, I'll never be able to find someone willing to do it pen and paper with the program a mere calculator.

What about me? I'm developing it for a pen-n-paper game engine
that allows you to play anyone over the internet in a setting that
resembles the pen n paper environment

I ment someone to play with. Now I'm not quite sure where your going with this game. Will your finnal design require me to move small objects around my table with a ruler and tape mesure or will it be possibul to play completly electronically?

[weemadando]

The intention is to have an electronic interface using the VASSAL engine, but with all tokens, rules etc able to be downloaded for pure pen and paper use.

[MKSheppard]

Got this for $10 bux today.....

[Hotfoot]

For those who might be interested, possible game engines capable of a good Star Wars mod...

The War Engine

Tactical only. Turn-based, should be able to handle ground assaults and space combat. Might have to simplify weapons a bit though.

Space Empires IV Gold

Already Star Wars graphics in use, could easily be modded to Star Wars specs. Not quite as much detail in combat as the previous engine, but this has the benefit of allowing for commanding hundreds, if not thousands of ships, and feeling as though you are actually commanding a real empire.

A Clone Wars Scenario would be quite interesting, and do-able.

[MKSheppard]

Resurrected from the dead and work has resumed....thanks to Yosemite
bear for moving this thread