Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles

Ouch ! Priced for the super fan (I'm not quite there).

That's a cheap Ares' intro price, Wings of Glory Battle of Britain and Sails of Glory are both more. Four models for $50 is a good intro price these days.

I want to see how they handle damage. I hate chit pull. I want cards.

Wonder how they were able to get such a hot and current I.P. ?

Will Muffit will get his own pilot card ?

You're aware this is a couple of guys in their basement, right?

It's a good IP. If it was a Space: Above and Beyond minis game I'd mock it but Galactica is a modern classic that still has a lot of fans.

Honestly, I'm kind of interested. Would need to know more about their tweaks to the system.

Prepaints, I hope?

Gary Sax wrote: Honestly, I'm kind of interested. Would need to know more about their tweaks to the system.

Prepaints, I hope?

Yes, preprinted and assembled. There is a picture of one on the article. Small box. Click it to enlarge.

It's inertial movement. Direction of motion from the prior turn continues in this one. So you can be facing one way and moving in another. There's obstacles on the board though, and drifting into them busts you up. It makes the movement more space-like.

Ares did Divinity Derby, I'd totally love to review that.

Sagrilarus wrote: It's inertial movement. Direction of motion from the prior turn continues in this one. So you can be facing one way and moving in another. There's obstacles on the board though, and drifting into them busts you up. It makes the movement more space-like.

That could be good, actually.

Gary Sax wrote:

Sagrilarus wrote: It's inertial movement. Direction of motion from the prior turn continues in this one. So you can be facing one way and moving in another. There's obstacles on the board though, and drifting into them busts you up. It makes the movement more space-like.

That could be good, actually.

Yeah, that really captures what made space combat cool in the show as well, at least the newer version. It certainly sets it apart from something like X-Wing, at first glance.

Sagrilarus wrote: That's a cheap Ares' intro price, Wings of Glory Battle of Britain and Sails of Glory are both more. Four models for $50 is a good intro price these days.

I want to see how they handle damage. I hate chit pull. I want cards.

Probbaly why I don't do miniatures games then, that proce my be close to £50 when it hits UK shores so definitely won't be looking at it unfortunately.

Aren't there, like, two whole Viper models and, er, one Raider model? I saw the reference to Scar and to named-pilot ships, but while a base sounds kind of cool, this seems to have pretty short legs. Of course, to my far-from-expert eye, most of the Sails of Glory ships look the same, too, and there are three or four large waves of those (and at least many of the early Wings of War minis were just repaints of the same model).

jpat wrote: Aren't there, like, two whole Viper models and, er, one Raider model? I saw the reference to Scar and to named-pilot ships, but while a base sounds kind of cool, this seems to have pretty short legs. Of course, to my far-from-expert eye, most of the Sails of Glory ships look the same, too, and there are three or four large waves of those (and at least many of the early Wings of War minis were just repaints of the same model).

It looks to me like you are correct. The models of the named ships are the same as the standard, but have "markings" (i.e. slightly different paints), and come with special named pilot cards.

Southernman wrote:

Sagrilarus wrote: That's a cheap Ares' intro price, Wings of Glory Battle of Britain and Sails of Glory are both more. Four models for $50 is a good intro price these days.

I want to see how they handle damage. I hate chit pull. I want cards.

Probbaly why I don't do miniatures games then, that proce my be close to £50 when it hits UK shores so definitely won't be looking at it unfortunately.

It's tough for you UK folks. At online discount the starter set will be like $35 in the states, which makes it a little more reasonable.

ubarose wrote:

jpat wrote: Aren't there, like, two whole Viper models and, er, one Raider model? I saw the reference to Scar and to named-pilot ships, but while a base sounds kind of cool, this seems to have pretty short legs. Of course, to my far-from-expert eye, most of the Sails of Glory ships look the same, too, and there are three or four large waves of those (and at least many of the early Wings of War minis were just repaints of the same model).

It looks to me like you are correct. The models of the named ships are the same as the standard, but have "markings" (i.e. slightly different paints), and come with special named pilot cards.

Thanks. Just to be clear, I wasn't be critical of anything, just noting that as a potential "mine" for content, BSG is somewhat surprisingly thin for ship models given the lack of differentiation (which ties into the theme but makes getting a bunch of different minis less attractive--to me at least).

jpat wrote:

ubarose wrote:

jpat wrote: Aren't there, like, two whole Viper models and, er, one Raider model? I saw the reference to Scar and to named-pilot ships, but while a base sounds kind of cool, this seems to have pretty short legs. Of course, to my far-from-expert eye, most of the Sails of Glory ships look the same, too, and there are three or four large waves of those (and at least many of the early Wings of War minis were just repaints of the same model).

It looks to me like you are correct. The models of the named ships are the same as the standard, but have "markings" (i.e. slightly different paints), and come with special named pilot cards.

Thanks. Just to be clear, I wasn't be critical of anything, just noting that as a potential "mine" for content, BSG is somewhat surprisingly thin for ship models given the lack of differentiation (which ties into the theme but makes getting a bunch of different minis less attractive--to me at least).

Sounds like a positive feature.

The only way I see this working is as an event game enhancer where you’re playing FFG Battlestar and have to resolve dogfights via playing this game or something.

Standalone, it’s basically 6 enemy types, seven if you add the civvy transports:

Battlestar
Basestar
Viper
Raider
Raptor
Cylon Heavy

I think they will lean hard on different pilots...Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer, Helo, Hot Dog...rather than different ships.

I’m wondering how they’ll do capitals because that is a big part of BSG...but waaaaaaaay out of scale. I mean, a Battlestar isn’t really possible in this game unless the fighters are the size they are in Armada.

Interesting

Yeah, that's how you track your current direction and speed. Your ship’s nose can point any direction you want so you can’t use it as an indicator of current motion,

That part looks pretty interesting. I’ll be curious to see how much it adds to game play.

S.

I might pick it up once it hits clearance next year.

Most people don't give a shit but tracking direction of movement separate from facing is a pretty awesome complication tactically.

Star Warriors did that, as do a bunch of other spacey old school games that use inertia.

Yeah, there's some AH or SPI game that did this, was that star warriors?