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Author Topic: Battleships IN SPACE. Apparently I need boarding/ramming mechanics  (Read 11377 times)

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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #195 on: September 24, 2020, 02:56:55 pm »

Turn off all lasers. Turn on jump drive. Jump to T-Lock.
DC crews to reactor on deck #2, and point defense on deck #5
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #196 on: September 24, 2020, 03:13:05 pm »

Complete jump. Fire missiles on the Mandator.
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #197 on: September 24, 2020, 03:27:15 pm »

Damn, man. It feels downright impossible to land a killing blow, huh?

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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #198 on: September 24, 2020, 03:46:31 pm »

Damn, man. It feels downright impossible to land a killing blow, huh?

Successful hits should probably be forced to strike compartments that still have functional modules, i.e. instead of scattering hits across 10 compartments on the Kogan, I'd be scattering them across 5 meaningful compartments. It does mean that damaged ships lose combat capability exponentially instead of the present more linear decrease (except for when shield generators are hit), but that's actually very realistic to real-life naval warfare (or most forms of warfare) anyway, so I'd consider that to be just fine. It would also increase the speed with which the winning side, y'know, wins.

Murder the Koganusan. Keep up the stern chase. Think murderous thoughts towards the T-Lock.
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #199 on: September 24, 2020, 04:25:24 pm »

Eventually there would just be holes where you've hit multiple times.  Maybe an additional hit beyond "destroyed" removes that component from the list of available damage recipients? In essence, each component can get hit three times before becoming damage saturated and exposing the neighboring components?  It would be a slightly less severe exponential loss in combat capability.

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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #200 on: September 24, 2020, 05:03:39 pm »

I would mostly like to shorten the game immensely, so I'm not a fan of extending damage past the point of a compartment being nonfunctional.
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #201 on: September 24, 2020, 11:44:46 pm »

Could see something where a section has a few 'reserve hit points' that get hit after all it's components are destroyed, and when those run out does damage start targeting other sections (until DC gets one of those components to Jury Rigged anyway, but that shouldn't reset the 'reserve')

Also Madman, last I checked you've had very few hits to already destroyed components (you damn luck vampire), so even if that rule was already in place the match likely would've gone exactly the same. Still, something for Kashyyk to think about.

Think you got a good chance of ending me this round, given how you only need to knock out 2 more of my internals, only 1 of my 5 active internals has a functional external (and even that is Jury Rigged... Look, the color is wrong, ok?), and you have a very good track record for scoring triple hits on a section.

Fire off spite shot from sorta intact mass-driver, continue buying time
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #202 on: September 25, 2020, 01:01:49 am »

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Huh? How did that happen. Lemme fix.
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #203 on: September 25, 2020, 02:33:23 am »

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Huh? How did that happen. Lemme fix.

If it makes you feel any better it happened when basically my everything got busted.
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #204 on: September 29, 2020, 12:29:28 am »

I'd be interested in the next match, if there will be another game.

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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #205 on: September 29, 2020, 02:08:06 am »

There will be, once I've finished this one, gathered opinions and tweaked rules. This turn is just a bit delayed because everyone in my house is ill.
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. The Stern Chase!
« Reply #206 on: October 02, 2020, 01:08:21 pm »

Turn 15

Spoiler: Crunch (click to show/hide)

Both capital ships jump, it being all the Koganasun can do to avoid melee range with the unharmed warship. Damage reports trickle in from the barrage of lasers and missiles before, reporting that the last Mass Driver has once again been destroyed as lasers splash across the hull.

Meanwhile, the T-Lock escapes out to Extreme range as the Ayes carefully powers on the hastily rebuilt Jump Drive and moves to follow.


The Field (Extreme Range)
 |- Whack-a-mole (Short Range)
 |   |- The Ayes
 |   -> Imminent Hugs (Close Range)
 |       |- Koganasun
 |       -> Mandator
 -> T-Lock

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Spoiler: RED The Ayes - a1s (click to show/hide)

Destroyed
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. I really need to fix Offense/Defense balance
« Reply #207 on: October 02, 2020, 02:03:50 pm »

Wow

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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. I really need to fix Offense/Defense balance
« Reply #208 on: October 02, 2020, 02:21:58 pm »

Disengage! It has been an honour! (and a massacre :P)
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Re: Battleships IN SPACE. I really need to fix Offense/Defense balance
« Reply #209 on: October 02, 2020, 03:40:44 pm »

So I guess if Red team manages to escape without losing a ship, they technically win?
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