online game for ship to ship combat

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-10-13 01:13pm

ok I was searching the net when I found this interesting site.These are online backups for an old game some of you may remeber.

Leviathan is interesting in that as Emperor Ming mentioned to me it could be modded as a Star Wars ship combat game.

http://indigo.ie/~ngilsena/pdfs.htm

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-10-13 04:31pm

Been looking for those.

BTW, have you seen the updates to the originals?

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-10-14 01:57am

not yet

dacis2 · Post by **dacis2** » 2004-10-14 04:17am

ummm.... okay.....
can you give a little info on what this game is like? Thanks.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-10-14 01:36pm

basically multi km long warships slugging it out . it uses thrust points for movment ...IE if last turn you moved 10 hexe4s this turn you move ten hexes unless you decelerate.

hexes are 75km across... but the ships signiature can be multiple hexes BB is 4 hexes long and can take several hexes to turn .

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-10-14 04:35pm

There was also at least one computer game based on this universe. It was a fairly basic flightsim-type game called Battle for Jacob's Star. I remember that when I read the backstory I thought that they whole thing was a huge rip-off of Star Wars.

I thought that the game itself was pretty good at the time, although I hadn't played games like X-Wing or Wing Commander at the time, both of which blow it out of the water. It still had some interesting bits, though, like the way that you could select your wingmen for each mission. Their statistics would improve the more you used them, but they also had a fatigue level that you had to keep your eye on.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-10-14 05:29pm

WooT anotherone that knows about this old game

Time for TOG to crush those Renegade Bastards.

Roma Victor!

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-10-15 12:40am

Not really since Renegade Legion is set in the Milky Way Galaxy. Basically you can play as TOG or as the Commonwealth/Renegade troops.

TOG is invading Commonwealth Space to finaly bring the Galaxy under Ceasars rule. BUt they are slowing down the conquest and it isn`t because resi8stance is stiffening.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-10-15 02:26am

You couldn't play as TOG in the computer game. You were stuck as a Renegade pilot.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-10-15 12:23pm

This is the tabletop game that inspired the computer game.From the same people wh brought you Battletech.

Unfortunately Wiz Kids isnt bringing it back

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-10-15 06:05pm

There were actually three computer games. One that was marketed simply as Renegade Legion: Interceptor, I believe, and included custom ship designs, so I heard.

Then there was The Battle for Jacob's Star and Return to Jacob's Star, the first of which included some pretty cool music.

The boardgames simply rocked, with the exception of Prefect, which was damn near unplayable.

Leviathan was very good, though it suffered from a bit of sloppy playtesting and needed a bit of house-rulework as a result.

FASA pulled the plug, eh, about eleven or twelve years ago or so, selling the rights off to Crunchy Frog, who put it under their Nightshift Games department, which released all of one or two supplements before giving up.

Major bummer, because IMO Renegade Legion purely owned Battletech.

LordChaos · Post by **LordChaos** » 2004-10-16 07:12pm

Yall are just now finding out about this? I'm a big RL fan. Belive it to be far superior to Btech in just about every way. How big a fan am I? My avatar over at spacebattles is a combo of the RL and TOG logos, and have even made 1 attempt at modeling a RL cap ship.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-10-18 01:22am

Have you seen the site that has rules for a combination of Battletech and Renegade tech?

LordChaos · Post by **LordChaos** » 2004-10-18 03:40am

didn't know there was a site that had it... I saw the Btech mod rules years ago (refered to as "RenigadeTech" at the time).

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-10-19 01:58am

Yeah. Same site. The material is still up there.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-10-19 03:43am

Talk about a slaughter.I cannot see ANY Inner Sphere or Clan force that can stand toe to toe with the TOG.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2004-10-23 04:41pm

Typhonis 1 wrote:Talk about a slaughter.I cannot see ANY Inner Sphere or Clan force that can stand toe to toe with the TOG.

That was fairly obvious to me when I looked at the game scale and movement capabalities of grav armor. Long range for the inner Sphere is medium range for the TOGies/Renegades...