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Dan Ibekwe
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:20 pm    Post subject: Ground Assaults Reply with quote

Probably Borders of Madness materiel, but I was kicking around with Module M over the weekend wondering about integrating FC with a strike-from-space ground battle.

Problem is, no-one has any troopships with large banks of transporters in FC yet.

Then I realised you don't need them. You just land your ship(s) directly on the objective and deliver the marines that way.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The prob is you can't land on an enemy ship.
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Dan Ibekwe
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The clue is in the word 'ground'...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the ground, without transporters, the most you could do with your marines is set up a perimeter around the ship ---
Even with transporters, your still limited to line of sight to move your troops ---
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And don't forget SVC's desire to produce Star Fleet Assault: Ground Combat in the SFU.

If it ever sees fruition, this game should interface with SFB/FC and with Prime Directive to provide a ground-combat option that is currently missing from the SFU (short of Module M).
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Dan Ibekwe
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I'll look forward to that, and in the meantime continue using DNs as LSEs (Landing Ship, Enormous).

@ Bolo - it's science fiction. They have jet packs.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You fly into a hot LZ,
I'll walk, Thank you
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LSE's...

now that's funy! Very Happy
I'll have to remember that one.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:12 pm    Post subject: Hot LZ's Reply with quote

There is no way I am going to put my troopers into a hot LZ. I will bombard the planet into the stone age if they do not surrender, thus the statement of Klingons, 'Surrender or die!'

But I would love to see mass shuttles assault in waves, similar to Starship Troopers, Iwo Jima, or The Longest Day, while I am transporting units to the ground from my Commando ships!

I need a glorius war! And more bloodwine!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And as your mass wave of assualt shuttles comes in, I'm going to be picking them off with my 4 Plasma-D racks (that's a little trick I learned from an Orion Pirate I once ran into...) Cool
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Dan Ibekwe
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scoutdad wrote:
And as your mass wave of assualt shuttles comes in, I'm going to be picking them off with my 4 Plasma-D racks (that's a little trick I learned from an Orion Pirate I once ran into...) Cool


I thought landed ships couldn't shoot in FC?

There are times you want to capture something or someone without necessarily destroying the planet's biosphere in the process (unless you're Klingon, natch).

And if you are a lone Orion pirate, you won't have the firepower to do it before the law arrives.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My Pirate Cruser is in close orbit above the planet... picking off those shuttles as they launch, but before the land...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All the better reason to land the ship!

16 plasma-Ds = very dead shuttle wave

4 plasma-Ds = mildly annoyed cruiser (or faintly amused DN)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was the simplified ground combat module from Captain's Log #3 totally scrapped when the Doomsday edition of the rules was released?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike wrote:
Was the simplified ground combat module from Captain's Log #3 totally scrapped when the Doomsday edition of the rules was released?

No. It forms the basis of SFB Module M. The rules are mostly the same.
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