| Capt Flash | 25 May 2014 1:40 p.m. PST |
As the title says, has anyone used G.O.B.S. for fighters only games?
I'd like something that allows a fleet of fighters ranging from 30-40 ships a side, flying in wings of 3-5 birds.
Inspired by new Battlestar Galactica, I picked a bunch of not-BSG from Studio Bergstrom last fall.
So I think you guys can see what I'm looking to do.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
-Edgar |
| SouthernPhantom | 25 May 2014 5:15 p.m. PST |
No, but after taking a look at the rules, I see absolutely no reason why it would be unsuitable for fighters. I personally hate space-opera-style stuff so it ain't for me, but I'd say go for it. Obviously, ship classes would be different- fighters in GOBS might correspond to drones, frigates might be light fighters, carriers, some sort of light tanker, that sort of thing. |
| Capt Flash | 25 May 2014 9:14 p.m. PST |
So how would you handle this type of project? Any rules recommendations? |
| Darkrazor | 26 May 2014 9:38 a.m. PST |
Colonial Battlefleet and Man Vs Machine Expansion |
| Darkrazor | 26 May 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
The other one that might be good would be Starmada |
TheBeast  | 27 May 2014 7:23 a.m. PST |
Just to be sure, 'wings' are still using independent models, correct? Or 'wings' as a stand of three to five models that never act independently except as to die? Doug |
| Capt Flash | 27 May 2014 3:24 p.m. PST |
I'm looking to go independently based models, yes. |
| TheBeast | 28 May 2014 3:59 a.m. PST |
Gotcha; I am a fanboy so take with copious sodium chloride, but still think FT would be a better fit than the latter two suggested. Still, those numbers would challenge me in any game, so I'd probably give GOBS a close look. It's designed for those kinds of numbers, and reported to do well with same. Doug |
 Parzival | 28 May 2014 1:00 p.m. PST |
G.O.B.S.! with fighters should work in terms of the numbers you want, but your ships are gonna blow up in the scores. Fighters just can't take a pounding the way capital ships can. That's by design, of course, as G.O.B.S.! is meant to be a capital ships game more than a dogfight simulator. But give it a shot, and tell me what happens! |
| Capt Flash | 28 May 2014 4:04 p.m. PST |
Will do! The idea is to have a bang up, fun game, so it should be a blast! Heh! |
| TheBeast | 02 Jun 2014 6:58 a.m. PST |
Okay, mister clarification-issues again. You ARE talking about running fighters as if they were individual ships, right? No problem using ship designations for all the fighters, right? Jon Tuffley made a fighter game called Tacship, really simple, but a bit more than GOBS, methinks. However, I really prefer using FT, but making fighters scout/courier thru frigate sized. Maybe DD's as gunboats on occasion. Course, I limit the arcs of fire on EVERYTHIHG, and dabble with limited element/squadron/flight rules. If I really got serious, I'd borrow some such rules from AoG's Fleet Action. Doug Doug |
| Capt Flash | 05 Jun 2014 12:42 p.m. PST |
Hello again Doug, and yes I want to run the ships as individual fighters, using Betgstrom's 1" fighters. It seems to me that Tacship is more of a dogfight game. I'm looking for bigger numbers. I'll need to give Tacship a run through begore I stick with that assumption, though. I think GOBS will work for this, but tomorrow I'm playing a regular game of GOBS so won't know for a while longer.
I'm actually pretty happy with Star Wars X-Wing for my smaller actions. |
| TheBeast | 06 Jun 2014 11:39 a.m. PST |
X-Wing does seem to do the job well, though I've been burnt pretty nastily with 'barrel rolls'. ;->= Doug |
