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[Nirur Torir]

I had been kicking this idea around for a few months: A strategy game with customizable units, focusing mostly on planets, but with space travel later on. It is loosely based on the Alpha Centauri game. Combat is mostly deterministic.

Spoiler: Backstory (click to show/hide)

June 12, 2013: a large comet was noticed for the first time by an amateur astronomer. He reported it to a local observatory, hoping to get it named after him. They came to a startling conclusion while plotting its course:
It had a 97% chance of hitting the Earth in six months. It would likely create a planet-wide dust cloud that would envelop the Earth entirely for two years. Civilization would be doomed, possibly alongside humanity.

June 15, 2013: The UN met frantically, drawing up various options. Eventually, two major courses of action were decided upon: Diverting the comet with nuclear ordinance, and, should that fail, saving as many people as possible in bunkers deep underground.

June 19, 2013: The Chinese stated that they had been secretly working on a large ship over the previous two years, with the hopes of creating a self-sustained colony on Mars. The frame had been built, but they lacked the technological background to guarantee that it would have been launched before the comet hit. The UN unanimously decided to make provide whatever support they could. The previously decided upon courses of action would still be taken.

November 28, 2013: The comet was 12 days away. The first wave of missiles appeared to have done nothing, but more were ready to launch. The ship was finally complete, with a Swiss captain. Many arguments had taken place over who should be in charge, but the Chinese finally relented after being promised Mars. A representative of each major nation was present, to act as a senate for ruling the people on board. The captain had all say in matters of the ship, but could be replaced by a majority vote. It had been decided that Mars was unlikely to offer much of a back-up for the survival of humanity, and that it should instead be launched to Alpha Centauri.

The ship, the S.S. Faith, was a massive vessel, able to carry 100,000 people. Large nuclear pulse engines would allow it to reach its destination in appoximately 44 years. To feed the people on the voyage, large solar funnels were built into the sides, collecting as much light as possible to grow grains, and limited amounts of fruit. Roughly 1000 chickens were brought, and a number of fish, but no other animals. A collection of genetic code for a large number of animals was stored in the ship in digital format, in case of the unlikely event that they could be re-created in the future. The ship was segmented into 22 "city pods," each able to carry 1000 people. They included self-contained factories, living areas, and farms, and each one was theoretically capable of restarting humanity on an airless world. They were designed to be launched, and send shuttles back to the ship to collect the remaining people after more living space was available.

The ship was launched successfully. It stopped at Mars orbit briefly, where the two "city pods" containing the Chinese were sent to the surface. Both crashed, and contact was lost. The first one's pulse drive failed to activate, and it impacted hard enough to scatter massive pieces throughout the impact crater. The second one's pulse drive misfired. Large gashes throughout the structure were visibly venting atmosphere. The captain ordered the ship to leave the system. Rumors circulated that the captain had had the pods sabotaged, but no proof was ever brought forward.

December 10, 2013: Successive missile barrages failed to deflect the comet, merely breaking it into large pieces. As radioactive dust was clouding the Earth's atmosphere, analysts aboard the S.S. Faith decided it would have been better if the missiles had never been launched. Already outside of radio contact, the captain once again ordered the ship to continue its course.


March 3, 2058: The S.S. Faith has arrived. The years were long and hard, but humanity has survived. Micro-meteors have rendered most of the "city pods" inoperable, and destroyed nearly all of the shuttles designed for ferrying the population down. Only eight "city pods" remain, but the populace has split into many factions. The captain, Frederick XX, has gathered eight faction leaders together, ordering them to commandeer the "city pods" with their most loyal followers. He would stay aboard the ship and try to prevent rioting.

There are two planets that are most likely to be suitable cradles for humanity to re-establish itself. One is similar to Mars and airless, which the captain named Krigg. The other looks slightly like Earth, but has a largely methane based atmosphere. The captain named it Siren, as the alluring beauty made false promises.

Here are most of the rules. Any questions will be answered.

Spoiler: General (click to show/hide)

-Your goal is to defeat your foes. You do this by building or conquering cities, building armies, and attacking people.
-This is explained later: The timeline for each turn is: Movement/Production, then bombardment, then before-combat missiles, then combat, then after-combat missiles, then colonization.
-Planets wrap around horizontally.
-Poles wrap around to any other pole on their side. Cities built on poles, aside from their normal gathering range, only gather from one pole in each direction, for a total of 3 poles including their own.
-Any naval unit may enter a friendly city. Space units require an entire turn to launch or land.
-Fighters, bombers, and missiles may enter or leave orbit for 10 movement points. With 20 movement points, they may launch, land anywhere, and fight.

Spoiler: Orders (click to show/hide)

-You can order your units to:
Move - Move somewhere. Units can move a distance of the engine points they have. They will attack any units they come across.
Bombard - Naval units can bombard a hex for half of their attack in damage, rounded up and then distributed by the GM. Note that each unit may only bombard a single hex per turn, and that their attack strength is all added together before it is cut in half.
Patrol - A unit or force that spends its turn stationary may automatically attempt to engage anything entering the patrol zone. The possible patrol zone is any or all area within a range of engines/2, rounded down. A plane with at least 10 movement points may instead patrol near-orbit for anyone landing wherever the player picks, or generally attack anything that launches.

-There are "standing orders" that you can do, in addition to the implicit "attack any units that are in your hex". These are:
March Under Fire - Units ordered to March Under Fire will ignore any attackers as they attempt to move to the destination. This gives each attacker 3 free attacks, targets chosen by me (as though I was the attacker and wanted to inflict maximum casualties)
Standard - Any surviving defenders will arrive at their destination and may engage in a standard combat at the end of the turn.

-You give turn orders in this format, which will be explained in the rest of the spoilers. You can post your orders in the thread, but you do not have to. You can post false orders and PM me the real ones.
-Please to be seeing this thread for the example game, yes? Please to be asking Nirur Torir or Cheddarius if has questions?
-Cheddarius's Turn:
THE FOLLOWING WILL BE POSTED IN THE THREAD THE NEXT TURN:
New research
New production
Movement/bombardment/patrols, etc

Forces:
 (Where you intend for your forces to end their turns, names, and stats)
 1 D1 - GLS Jarlsberg - 6/6/5/2 (Naval_sea)
 Stragglers H5 - Airag Mk II - 4/6/4/1 (Land)
 Legion I4 - 5x Airag Mark II - 4/6/4/1 (Land)
 Stilton D7 - Thorn 6/1/0/0 (Land)
 Great Lactosia E10 - 2x Thorn 6/1/0/0 (Land)
                      2x Thorn T21 2/1/0/0 (Land)
 Gruyere I8 - 4x Airag Mark II - 4/6/4/1 (Land)
            - 3x Cachaille C12 - 1/0/0/2 (Missile)

Cheddarius status
 Industry remaining after use
 Research remaining after use
 All tech levels, with something indicating changes <New>, <N>, *, etc.
THE FOLLOWING WILL NOT BE POSTED IN THE THREAD THE NEXT TURN:
I want the order each force will fight in. I want any special orders, like where they are patrolling or if they're ordered to March Under Fire. I want where missiles will be targeted in case of an attack. Whatever else needs to be said about orders, say it here.

Custom formats are accepted, but this is preferred. Anyone who does not correctly format their post (e.g. leaves out unit placements or orders) will be publicly chastised and summarily shot (by Cheddarius). He knows where you live. Yes, you.

Spoiler: Cities, Research, and Production (click to show/hide)

-Each city occupies a hex.
-Each city gets resources from the hex it occupies and the six hexes surrounding it.
-A hex may produce 1 industry, 1 research, 2 industry, 2 research, or one of each. Mountain produces 2 industry. Plains produces 1 industry and 1 research. Polar caps produces 1 research. Sea produces 1 research, or 1 research and 1 industry with the Naval Mines upgrade. Barren wastelands (Darker brown) produce 1 industry.
-A newly conquered city must have a military unit in it for a turn, or it will revert to its previous state. In addition, it will be in turmoil for the first turn that it is conquered and will not produce resources or construct units.
-If a hex is controlled by two cities, whoever had it first controls it initially. A colored flag is placed to show whose it is. A contested hex can be seized by placing a military unit there. Even a non-contested hex can be "blocked", denying its resources to the owners, by placing military there. If you send military there but they are destroyed that turn, it doesn't count.
-A city may be built from a Colonist (0/3/0/1), which costs 15 industry.
-You may build as many cities as your Colony Limits Level. Through conquest, you may control as many cities as your Colony Limits level plus one. Newly conquered cities that go over the limit will be razed. You can voluntarily raze one of your own cities, but it takes two turns.
-Every player has a universal research pool. This may be saved between turns if you want to save up, although there is no specific benefit to doing so.
-Every planet each player owns has its own industry pool. Modern transportation technology allows cities to collaborate on projects, allowing all units to be built in the same city if so desired.
-Production may be shipped to other celestial bodies or to allies, at the cost of one cargo space (see below) per two IP shipped.
-If a shipment is destroyed, half of it remains on the hex, ready to be picked up by any unit with cargo space spending a full turn on the hex. It may also be destroyed by any unit spending a full turn on the hex.
-Completely surrounded cities have a separate industrial pool from the rest of the planet. The blockade need not be adjacent to a city, but it must be unbroken.
-Units cannot be moved on the turn they are built.
-A unit that is attacked on the turn that it is built will miss its first attack.

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

-Occurs when one stack of units is ordered to attack another. If a stack moves onto another stack, the defending stack is assumed to be ordered to attack, but this can be changed.
-Each player PMs me the battle plan. It goes like this: The stack is made into a list. Each unit in the list has an instruction on when to fall back - fight to the death, fall back when at 3 armor, etc.
-Each unit has four combat stats: attack, armor, shields, and movement.
-The top two units of each stack attack simultaneously. Damage = Attacker_attack - Defender_shields. Damage is always at least 1, even if shields block it all.
-The round repeats until one or both units are destroyed or satisfy their fallback orders, at which point the next unit in the stack is called up.
-Air units only have enough ammo for two rounds, at which point they automatically try to retreat. Only other aircraft may pursue them. The ammo is replenished when they refuel.
-Fast units may be ordered to try to escape after their first round if they survive. Escape chance = n-1/n, where n is the difference between the retreater and the fastest unit in the enemy stack. If failed, the retreater is forced to the bottom of the stack. It will try to retreat again unless ordered otherwise.
-Units that do nothing for a turn recover 25% of their armor if in the field, or 100% of their armor if they are in a city.
-Fighters have a 50% dodge chance.
-Bombers have a 25% dodge chance.

-Missiles may be fired before or after combat, aimed at any unit.
-The player is not told the results of the battle until after it is too late to fire missiles, and they must be targeted at a specific unit - "the weakest" is not a valid choice.
-Armor on missiles is optional, but aids their survivability.
-Missiles have a 75% chance to dodge each point of damage. Any damage that gets through their armor destroys them, preventing their damage entirely.
-Only the unit they are aimed at may target them while they are attacking.
-Missiles are always destroyed after being used.
-If their carrier is destroyed, they are automatically fired in retaliation at the unit that destroyed the carrier, even if said unit was destroyed by the carrier. If the carrier is destroyed by missile fire before combat starts, the GM will determine where the missiles are fired.

Spoiler: Technologies (click to show/hide)

-See below post for cost table.
-Level 9, 10, and 11 colony tech each enable +2 colonies, and increase the extra city from conquering by a successive +1, up to +4 at level 11.
-Level 12 colony tech removes the colony limit completely.

Spoiler: Unit Designs (click to show/hide)

-Units are custom designed by players.
-Size Limit tech increases the soft cap of the unit point limit. Exceeding this increases the unit cost to x²/y, where x is the points used, and y is the size cap. If the can carry cargo, the formula is instead (x+z/2)x/y, where z is the number of points of cargo space.
-Weapon, armor, shield, and engine technologies increase the soft cap for that stat by one each unless otherwise noted.
-Exceeding the soft cap of a stat increases the point cost by an amount equal to how far over the cap it is, rounded up.
-Units at or below the point cap usually cost an amount of industry equal to their point multiplied by their unit type modifier. This is one for land units and naval units. This is two for missiles, fighters, and bombers.
-Shields cost 2 points each.
-Carriers cost .5 points each.
-Engines cost variable.

-Missile units:
---Engines cost 1/2 a point.
---Missiles gain 1 to their point limit per tech level.
---Costs 2 industry per point.
---Does not require armor.
---Destroyed at the end of the turn they are launched in. They may only be moved in carrier units, except for launch.
-Fighter units:
---Engines cost 1/3 a point.
---Fighters gain 1 to their point limit per tech level.
---Costs 2 industry per point.
---Must refuel at least every other turn.
-Bomber units:
---Engines cost 1/2 a point.
---Bombers gain 2 to their point limit per tech level.
---Costs 2 industry per point.
---Must refuel at least every other turn.
-Land units:
---Does not require engines
---Engines cost 2 per point.
---Land units gain 4 to their point limit per tech level.
-Naval_sea units:
---Engines cost 1 per point.
---Naval_sea units gain 8 to their point limit per tech level.
---May non-lethally bombard adjacent hexes for 50% of their attack value, with no retaliation. Bombardment happens like this: All attack points for one bombardment ("all sea units in X bombard Y") are added up. Then that number is halved and rounded if necessary. Each point "lines up" to damage the current highest-armor unit, choosing randomly if there's a tie. Bombarded units cannot heal that turn.
-Naval_space units:
---Engines cost 1 per point.
---Naval_space units gain 16 to their point limit per tech level.
---May non-lethally bombard any hex in an adjacent celestial body for 25% of their attack value, with no chance of retaliation.
---Have double the standard soft cap.

-Any unit may be marked as a carrier/transporter. Each point of carrier space is one point of space that may carry anything and refuel planes. It costs 1 unit point but only .5 industry.
-Carried units are destroyed if their carrier is destroyed, unless they may survive in the terrain. See also: Troops carried by APCs vs. troops carried by dreadnaughts.
-Carried units may only be used in battle if they can survive in the terrain, such as using a mobile air base to launch planes.
-No using carriers to chain move a unit far further then it should be able to move. Carriers may launch carriers that carry units, but units may not get on a different transport mid-way through the turn to get on a fresh transport.
-Two IP may be carried per cargo point and sent to an allied city or to a planet on another celestial body.

-Units can be upgraded. A unit to be upgraded must be at full health and spend the entire turn in the city. The cost is (NewPointCap - OriginalPointCap + CostOfNewPoints). So, suppose you upgrade Land Size Limits from 16 points to 20 points. You want to upgrade something that cost 15 points before to 20 points now. The cost is (20-16+20-15), or 9.

Spoiler: Diplomacy (click to show/hide)

-Trading cities, trading units, temporarily loaning out command of a unit - All are possible. If it makes sense, ask me about it.
-Giving away technologies requires both the giver and the receiver to pay 20% of the cost of what the receiver would pay if he/she researched it for himself/herself.
-Please include the GM in all diplomacy-related communications. In case of IM, just give a summary.

Custom sprites may be PMed to me, and I will probably use them. As I use PNGs, you are only allowed to add 4 colors to the palette, total. Use of colors I'm already using or that somebody else is using does not count towards this.

Warning: Anyone who refers to the Alpha Centauri star system as the Solar System will receive a free meteor. Probably more then one.

Spoiler: Planets (click to show/hide)

Cheddarius has been kind enough to post the coordinates of every hex  on the planets. I'm posting them alongside the old pictures for now, as the coordinates make the mountains slightly harder to see.
First, Siren:


Note the gray dot at F16. This is a test of the coordinate system. Note the blue dot at N24. This is a test for colorblindness.

Second, Krigg:



There are other bodies in the system, which will be revealed when somebody gets into space.

To sign-up, please post stating your preferred planet and color. If you choose Krigg, PM me your landing spot. If you choose Siren, post the coordinates here - I'm only allowing up to two players per continent, but it might be fun if everybody lands in the same area on Krigg. Landing on an island on Siren is ill advised, but permissible.
Four people per planet.
Spaces are reserved for my beta testers, Cheddarius and Knight Otu. This game is only here because of their testing efforts. Also because Cheddarius wouldn't give up on me making this. He collated the rules for me, and I edited them slightly. Any complaints about the quality of the game should be pointed at my beta testers, and not at me. It's their fault, not mine. Any praise should be pointed at me, because I take responsibility for how great my creations are.

Spoiler: Player list - Outdated, see most recent turn. (click to show/hide)

Siren Players
Techno65535 - White
<NONE> - Green
RAM - Blue
Jesse - Pink

Krigg Players
Cheddarius - Orange
Knight Otu - Gray
Wimdit - Red
Wolfchild - United Federation of New Ireland - Dark Green

[Nirur Torir]

Technology costs:

Spoiler: Help! (click to show/hide)

The following tables are the lists of technology costs.
More will be added as players advance in technology.
100% is for standard research. 20% is for trading research.
All players in the trade must pay the 20%, and on the same turn.

Spoiler: Basic Technologies (click to show/hide)

Basic technologies are:
Weapons
Armor

Level       100%        20%
2           2           1
3           3           1
4           5           1
5           7           2
6           11          3
7           16          4
8           23          5
9           35          7
10          52          11

Spoiler: Advanced Technologies (click to show/hide)

Advanced technologies are:
Shields (Needs to be unlocked first)
Engines

Level       100%        20%
2           2           1
3           4           1
4           7           2
5           11          3
6           19          4
7           33          7
8           58          12
9           101         21
10          176         36

Spoiler: Complex Technologies (click to show/hide)

Complex technologies are:
Size Limits
Colony Limits
Industry (All IP production is multiplied by the level of Industry)
Science!!! (As Industry)

Level       100%       20%
2           2          1
3           4          1
4           8          2
5           16         4
6           32         7
7           64         13
8           128        26
9           256        52
10          512        103

Spoiler: One Time Techs (click to show/hide)

Energy Shields - 100 (Allows shields to be used)
Oceanic Mines - 100 (All ocean squares produce 1 research and 1 industry)
Space Flight - 400 (Allows Naval_space units to be built and enables space unit research)
Upgraded Laboratories - 50 (Unlocks the technology of Science!!!)

Spoiler: Space Research (click to show/hide)

To be determined.

[alfie275]

Sign me up!

White Siren F7

[smjjames]

Coolness, I'm an Alpha Centauri fan, although I really wish I could get it to work, plus I think I'm missing the main Alpha Centauri disk.

Green (with a black border probably), Siren, F/G20 H 20

By F/G, I mean the row that is right between the two letters, basically the only place on the eastern continent where you can get three mountains in a city resource zone. This hex coordinate system is confusing me as I've never done anything like this before.

Edit: Fixed it as per Cheddarius's fixed up map.

[Virex]

Coolness, I'm an Alpha Centauri fan, although I really wish I could get it to work, plus I think I'm missing the main Alpha Centauri disk.

I've only got 1 AC disk, so I don't know how you could have anything but the "main" disk.

[Cheddarius]

In for a spot on Krigg.
Please to be not reserving three spots on Krigg, yes? Me is wanting Knight Otu to be on Krigg, please. So two spots, no more.

I will be orange, and my civilization shall be the mightiest in the Srola system! Bow before me!
What are the industry/research values for Krigg's terrains?

[Nirur Torir]

Coolness, I'm an Alpha Centauri fan, although I really wish I could get it to work, plus I think I'm missing the main Alpha Centauri disk.

Green (with a black border probably), Siren, F/G20

By F/G, I mean the row that is right between the two letters, basically the only place on the eastern continent where you can get three mountains in a city resource zone. This hex coordinate system is confusing me as I've never done anything like this before.

Oh. Uhh ... Yea, F/G works. I seem to have forgotten to label that, but it was supposed to be G. I'll fix it for future turns.

In for a spot on Krigg.
Please to be not reserving three spots on Krigg, yes? Me is wanting Knight Otu to be on Krigg, please. So two spots, no more.

Because you helped get this running, yes, I'll reserve a space for him on Krigg.

[Cheddarius]

I was talking to the players there, saying that I would prefer if they didn't sign up on Krigg too much. However, this works also. Thanks a bunch!

I will be orange, and my civilization shall be the mightiest in the Srola system! Bow before me!
What are the industry/research values for Krigg's terrains?

[smjjames]

Coolness, I'm an Alpha Centauri fan, although I really wish I could get it to work, plus I think I'm missing the main Alpha Centauri disk.

I've only got 1 AC disk, so I don't know how you could have anything but the "main" disk.

Theres AC and then theres its expansion AC: Alien Crossfire.

[Nirur Torir]

I will be orange, and my civilization shall be the mightiest in the Srola system! Bow before me!

What are the industry/research values for Krigg's terrains?

1/1 for light brown plains, 1 production for dark brown wastelands, 1 research for that funny color that seems to be 3 parts white and 1 part cyan, and 2 production for mountains.

[Cheddarius]

How much ind/res do we get to start?

[Criptfeind]

Blue G17 Siren.

[Nirur Torir]

How much ind/res do we get to start?

None, that was just to speed up the testing. You start with your city, a 1/1/0/1 Survey Team (The survey is a lie! It's just a standard unit), all level 1 techs, and nothing else.

[smjjames]

How much ind/res do we get to start?

If we are going by typical AC/ Civ series rules, the city tile would be +1 to what the tiles resources are (I think, its been a while), and then there are city improvements and population. We aren't going to get into the city improvements and population thing since its more complex than a forum game could handle.

I might be misinterpreting what you said though.

[Wimdit]

Ohhh, this is complicated...

In on Krigg. Red.