Good Military/Hard Sci-Fi RPG?

[Eltharon]

The spycraft 2.0 dramatic conflicts would be a great dogfighting system. Hurry up Farthest Star...

 

[Aussiegamer]

Same as here, though I just joined and therefore havent posted anything yet.

you better do before the week is up or you'll get deleted :\ , the forum has rules about non-posters.

 

[Eltharon]

Yeah, I think thats what happened to my last account. I'll post somehwere in your Nexus page

 

[Aussiegamer]

You should have gotten a email telling you why, did you? :\

 

[Eltharon]

Nope. Of course, there's the very likely possiblily that I never registered and just assumed I did.

 

[Aussiegamer]

I think that might be the case

I don't remember seeing your user name before hand

 

[Roudi]

Ranger REG, starfighter battles in the Star Wars trilogy were based off of World War I / II dogfights. Grid-based combat fits them to a T.

However, starship battles in a setting more founded in realism ought to be more like you suggest: relativistic (the Grapple check idea is a pretty good one)

The first edition of SWd20 featured a relative combat system. It was much more abstract.

 

[Ranger REG]

Ranger REG, starfighter battles in the Star Wars trilogy were based off of World War I / II dogfights. Grid-based combat fits them to a T.

However, starship battles in a setting more founded in realism ought to be more like you suggest: relativistic (the Grapple check idea is a pretty good one)

I know. I guess I was spoiled by my Star Fleet Battles experience. I'm more concerned with ship-to-ship combat rather than shuttle/fighter wings/squadrons battles, although the good thing with fighters and shuttles is you don't have to allocate power as you would with a ship. Ah, those were good years.

The first edition of SWd20 featured a relative combat system. It was much more abstract.

It was too abstract for my taste. However, it can be a useful tool if one wants to detail a dogfighting scene in that square, as you're more concern about trying to outmaneuver your opponents.

 

[librarius_arcana]

As is cunningly concealed in the title, I'm looking for a good rpg along the lines of David Drakes Hammers Slammers books or, (if anyones played it) the Dirtside/Stargrunt/Full Thrust wargames.
I don't want one so ingrained as a military game that its impossible to play something else, but I'm not looking for 20 meter tall walkers, lightsabres, force powers, and ships bigger then planets. Or ones where the dramatic battles have both sides charging towards eachother with BLASTER RIFLES, instead of taking cover like intelliegent clones. Droids. People. Whatever.

I was looking at spycraft 2.0 and waiting for Farthest Star (Even if it is a bit Space Opera-ish). Are they're any other good sci fi games out there?

I bet you'd like this (but D20 modern :\ )
http://michael.tresca.net/freebies/indexterminator.html

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If I were doing a game set in a hard sci-fi setting, the RPGs I'd consider would be:

1) Traveller (any edition, dependent upon prospective players)

2) HERO 5th or M&M 2 (Über-Flexibility)

3) SPI's Universe (OoP game whose publisher went out of business before it could challenge Traveller for supremacy- and would have)

4) Spycraft or D20 Modern/Future

5) Alternity w/ Stardrive setting

6) Gamma World (any edition, dependent upon prospective players)

7) GURPS (but only if I had to)- much as I hate it, its pretty good for sci-fi.