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[Harry Baldman]

I'd definitely be interested in a Dogfight RTD

I'd definitely be interested in a Hot Air Balloon Dogfight RTD. Or a Hot Air Balloon Racing RTD.

[Tiruin]

I'd definitely be interested in a Dogfight RTD

I'd definitely be interested in a Hot Air Balloon Dogfight RTD. Or a Hot Air Balloon Racing RTD.

Anyone remember how Wacky Death Race mechanics went?
I'd love to see that in this kind of setting. Zeppelin type ships in a mechanical era of industry, commerce and practical Helium.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Well, the Wacky Death Races were a little too... wacky. I don't know, I wanted to use existing aircraft because statting up an existing craft is easier than coming up with a custom craft creation and statting system. I can just say "you suddenly spot a flight of 5 Me-109's bearing down on your MiG-21", instead of describing - and coming up with - every random encounter in detail.

[Sean Mirrsen]

So, hot air baloon.

I'm going to rule the miniguns as feeding from the same ammo supply, and the missile launcher as a man-pack (i.e. a Stinger). You won't be able to fire more than one minigun at once (you're one guy), but you can essentially fire in any direction.

Aircraft: War Balloon

Mobility: 1
Responsiveness: 1d6
Toughness: 8

Weapons: 4x Minigun (separate 90-degree arcs), 1x Stinger launcher
   Minigun: up to 4 damage in 1 point clusters
   Stinger: guided (IR), 8 damage in 4 point clusters
Ammo: 20x Minigun burst, 8x Stinger Missile

No armor
Structure:
   Balloon: 6HP, 2 criticals (Valve, Fin)
   Gondola: 8HP, 6 criticals (Minigun, Minigun, Minigun, Minigun, Pilot, Rigging)

Some explanation. Mobility is how well you can move. Responsiveness is a measure of how likely your craft is to do what you want it to. Toughness is a measure of how unlikely your vehicle is to fall apart upon taking damage.

Mobility is not rolled against. It's straight up compared when determining maneuvers between aircraft, and various skill check values are altered accordingly.

Responsiveness: Rolled like an RTD check. Natural 1 is a failure, natural die maximum is a success, everything inbetween is neutral. If more than 1 die is rolled, the sum total of failures and successes determines result. Net failure may cause you to fly in a different direction, and will make you an easier target for the turn. Net success gives you a piloting bonus and makes you a harder target for the turn.

Toughness is checked whenever structural damage is sustained. 1d12 is rolled for every hit on the internal structure, and failure to roll equal to or under the Toughness value will cause a random Critical hit within the part. If there are no more critical locations, the part is destroyed even if its Structural HP is above zero.

All stats degrade as structural damage is taken.

I'll wait until some more entrants to start.

[Digital Hellhound]

I'd be interested. Prepare for the dragonfly personal flyer, marvel of steampunk French engineering, straight from the dockyards of the Emperor. A curious construction of brass shaped like... whodathought, a dragonfly, it will finds its way through any battle, cutting and weaving with all the speed its fluttering wings allow. Make no mistake, mon ami, it is a precision instrument, and one that has won many battles.

...oh, real-life aircraft? Pity. I'm sure I'll figure something out. Still;

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Captain Henri Dechoirs
Stats: Piloting 2, Gunnery 2, Awareness 2
Weapons: x2 18 Brumaire Machineguns, indeterminate amount of bombs, cutting blades for tearing apart enemy craft up close

[Sean Mirrsen]

I'd be interested. Prepare for the dragonfly personal flyer, marvel of steampunk French engineering, straight from the dockyards of the Emperor. A curious construction of brass shaped like... whodathought, a dragonfly, it will finds its way through any battle, cutting and weaving with all the speed its fluttering wings allow. Make no mistake, mon ami, it is a precision instrument, and one that has won many battles.

...oh, real-life aircraft? Pity. I'm sure I'll figure something out. Still;

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Captain Henri Dechoirs
Stats: Piloting 2, Gunnery 2, Awareness 2
Weapons: x2 18 Brumaire Machineguns, indeterminate amount of bombs, cutting blades for tearing apart enemy craft up close

Either I missed an aircraft name, or it'll be just mr. Dechoirs shooting double machineguns, and tearing apart enemies with blades from the comfort of his parachute. Or freefall.

[Digital Hellhound]

I'll take that as a 'no, not acceptable', then. If I can't have fancy mechanical dragonflies, I'll go for your run-of-the-mill triplane. But it'll have fancy colors atleast, damnit.

[Sean Mirrsen]

A fantasy contraption just leaves too much leeway for stats, really. I can hang machineguns onto a balloon, but I've no idea what to do with a mechanical dragonfly. Part of the reason I didn't go with the whole "craft your own aircraft" idea.

Triplane works, though. Fancy colors noted.

[Harry Baldman]

I suppose I'll sign up as well.

Spoiler: Jeffrey Gamble (click to show/hide)

Name: Jeffrey Gamble
Piloting: 3
Gunnery: 2
Awareness: 1
Choice of aircraft: motorized stunt kite!
Weapons: an elephant gun with armor-piercing and/or explosive rounds, preferably.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I suppose I'll sign up as well.

Spoiler: Jeffrey Gamble (click to show/hide)

Name: Jeffrey Gamble
Piloting: 3
Gunnery: 2
Awareness: 1
Choice of aircraft: motorized stunt kite!
Weapons: an elephant gun with armor-piercing and/or explosive rounds, preferably.

Interesting. A stunt kite isn't something that carries a person. Do you mean it's being flown by wires by a person on the ground, or do you perhaps mean a motorized paraglider? With the former you're only getting the two shots that are in the elephant gun - you need to land and technically end your engagement to reload. You can definitely down something with two shots from an elephant gun though, so...

Also, forgot to assign the balloon a value, but I'll wait until I have more crazy ideas like these to see what becomes the lowest point.

[Harry Baldman]

I mean a paraglider, yes. It was either that or an autogyro, and I'm not sure about the combat capabilities of that one.

[monk12]

I mean a paraglider, yes. It was either that or an autogyro, and I'm not sure about the combat capabilities of that one.

Implying that you're sure of the combat capabilities of a paraglider

[darkpaladin109]

I like how only one person so far has picked a somewhat sane vehicle for dogfighting.

[Harry Baldman]

I mean a paraglider, yes. It was either that or an autogyro, and I'm not sure about the combat capabilities of that one.

Implying that you're sure of the combat capabilities of a paraglider

Well, if it's motorized, it should work fine, no? Particularly if I've got a gun.

[Kadzar]

The previous mention of hot air balloons in combat reminded me of dirigible aircraft carriers. There's no way it would work in a one-person-per-craft dogfight game, but I'd love to see a game that did include them. That and submarine aircraft carriers. Oh, and maybe also seaplane tenders, just because I have a fondness for weird logistical equipment.