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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9510715" data-attributes="member: 907">Come to think of space battles... I think different scales ask very different things of a game system.When I think of Star Trek space fights, most of them are either big ship vs big ship, or big ship vs a small number of smaller ships. For an RPG, this is good because it keeps the focus on the PCs, with the Captain commanding and/or using smart tactics, the tactical officer pewpewing, possibly the helm maneuvering (though quite often the ships are too big to do that in a meaningful way), engineers pushing power and doing damage control, and so on.Sometimes the PCs' big ship would have a small number of allies. These are, I think, best handled by splitting up. The Concord is dealing with that Warbird, while the Potemkin is dealing with this one. And of course, in the best cases, battle (or the threat of battle) is just the backdrop for talking:[MEDIA=youtube]t5Jc9yTtirU[/MEDIA]Large-scale battles are probably best left mostly off-screen, or by having the battle serve as a backdrop for the PCs' ship taking on a specific mission. This is really no different from other games – I wouldn't model the Battle of Pelennor Fields using D&D's or even The One Ring's combat system either.</blockquote>