"Favorite Fighter-Level Starship Rules" Topic

What are your favorite rulesets for miniature wargaming with star fighters?

Silent Death

X-WIng

X-Wing

Used to be Silent Death, but X-Wing has won me over.

TacShip by Jon Tuffley.

X-Wing

The rules don't get in the way of the fun, the minis are unequaled, and the universe is so entrenched in our psyches as to be real.

Tac Ship, but I'm keen to give 5150 Fighter Command a go when I find the spare budget for it.

Robert

X-wing

5150 Fighter Command from Two Hour Games which also has a great expansion with two campaigns as well as new rules for capships.

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Silent Death.

+! Bashytubits

Then continue as you are "promoted" to 5150 Carrier Command followed by 5150 Star Navy.

5150 FC. Clearly.

What??? No love for Renegade Legion: Interceptor???? :O

*Goes off muttering to colour in armour boxes…*

MacrossMartin,

Heard of it, never seen/played it.

Silent Death then X-Wing

X-Wing (with an occasional dusting off of Silent Death)

Silent Death

5150 Fighter Command.

Silent Death
Fly till You Die!

Hey, I'll take the plunge: Renegade Legion: Interceptor!

x wing

X-Wing miniatures game.

I'm old, the FASA rules for Battlestar Galactica for me.

A vote for Silent death everything in one box. No "waves" or extras needed really.
X- wing is pretty good .

Hard Vacuum used to always receive a vote or two, back in the day.

Never played it myself.

X-wing.

silent death

You mean there's a question?

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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Sadly, nobody remembers FASA's old Interceptor system…dang good for its day. It had this interesting damage low chart for hits that got past armor/shield, and you could get a one-shot kill if you punched the armor on the right place.

Well I have Interceptor (as well as Centurion, Leviathan and Prefect. Traded Epic for Centurion and got the others), but I still have to say the best star fighter rules are Silent Death, which just so happens to be the first game I ever purchased.

I admire Interceptor, and Crimson Skies, the Original, which shared much with it, but I never really felt it.

Always found FASA's BSG a hoot, though the damage tracks could be a BIT fiddly.

Tacship is brill, but I REALLY like using Full Thrust for fighters.

Doug

X-Wing. Fun mixed with the lure of Star Wars and some opportunity for strategy.

Silent Death followed by X-Wing

Silent Death, so many fond memories.

I liked some aspects of FASA's Aerotech, but ultimately found Silent Death more fun for fighter-only games.

Ron

Er…X-Wing!

I like X-wing but I prefer to not use the special character ability and upgrade cards,just fly the basic craft.Playing with squadrons of heroes with tweaked gear is to much like WH40k war gear duels.

Many years ago I played a lot of WW1 naval. I recently had some games of X-Wing. Apart from the models, I see very little difference. Both are two dimensional; both use turn circles, firing arcs, armour (shields), torpedoes, guns (sorry, lasers), have collisions (and how in vast 3D space???), mines, comms between ships, "gun directors" of sorts, etc, etc. Clearly, X-Wing is nothing new; it's just WW1 naval combat with different models.

Silent Death & X-Wing

FASA's old Interceptor game, closely followed by DP9's Jovian Chronicles.

Silent Death

What??? No love for Renegade Legion: Interceptor????

A miasma of flow charts and missed opportunities, as I recall

John T

Another vote for Silent Death

X-Wing, and Squadron Strike conversions of X-Wing ships, which answers much of TJRaymond's objections.

Oh, forgot to mention first edition Babylon 5 Wars. Not as chartsy-complicated as Interceptor, and gave the fighters a bit of life.

…which answers much of TJRaymond's objections.

I simply don't answer the objections as they are damn thin. I've played some WWI naval, and he seems to have missed the point altogether.

Might as well say 'you use miniatures, so it's the same.'

Doug

I simply don't answer the objections as they are damn thin. I've played some WWI naval, and he seems to have missed the point altogether.

Yeah, that SWars capital-ship combat really *is* WW1-Naval-in-space, just as much as SWars fighters are WW2-aircraft-in-space.

Rocky Russo was fond of mentioning that the guys at ILM back in the 1970s loved playing Mustangs and Messerschmidts, and that the computer movement controls for the Falcon explicitly used the A20's maneuverability charts.

I thought the Falcon was maneuvering in a rather familiar fashion…

Nice to see there's still fondness for Silent Death in the community… we're doing our best to keep moving things forward to bring this classic game back to a presence in the FLGS network, perhaps even later this year of we're able.

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net