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Hussar replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.I've only had limited success with that sort of thing. Players want to play their characters and I find that some players really don't... -
Hussar replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..It's always funny how the math never seems to matter. 10 peasants vs an AD&D ogre will obliterate that ogre in a single round. 10...
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Hussar replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.It's very difficult to make that kind of blanket statement. After all, what kind of technology are we talking about? Maybe the...
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Hussar reacted to Mallus's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with
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Allow me to make an argument for space navies: Space Battleship Yamato and Legend of the Galactic Heroes. (they don't make any sense... -
Hussar replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.This is quite possible. I played SFB back in uni, so that's an embarrassingly long time ago. I have no idea which version of the rules...
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Hussar reacted to Koloth's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
<Snicker>. They since changed the rules but I saw a 1200+ point Romulan fleet taken out by a pair of Orion PFs carrying 4 NSMs(Nuclear...
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Hussar replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.Yes, but, you could always ram. Which then detonated your engines. But, your point is still very well made. They were basing things...
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Hussar reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Ships in Star Fleet Battles were designed with the thought they were constructed to perform other functions outside of a single combat...
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Hussar replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.Not without running afoul of site restrictions. But, surely you can think of wars from the 20th century where very aggressive nations...
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Hussar reacted to Jeffzilla's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Fair point-- not arguing against you-- but my take is that The Expanse's fantasy elements don't negate its attention to real-world...
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Hussar reacted to Von Ether's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
The answer is the same as it always has been, navies and armies conduct their missions with the technology they have at hand. On that...
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Hussar reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Sooo much of this. In a world with guns, we still have knife fights. In a world with airplanes, we still have submarines. In a world...
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Hussar reacted to Sossij's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
In fact, the range of any spaceborne weapon is effectively "infinite" barring detection ranges and evasive maneuvers. The book...
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Hussar reacted to Mortus's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Greetings Mr Pulsipher, great article! For part 2 can you add your thoughts on Star Frontiers: Knight Hawks space combat? Thanks!
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Hussar reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
The Expanse has more realistic space combat.