[Wargame] A Sky Full of Ships

[John Geoffrey]

As this group seems to be barely in use I decided to post a bit of
stuff that might be of use to someone stumbling over it.


Subject: [Stuffed Crocodile] [Wargame] A Sky Full of Ships


A Sky Full of Ships is a nice and very basic looking space combat
system that I have been looking into lately. It simulates space combat
between single ships rather nicely, and I thought about using it as a
replacement for the usual Traveller ship combat in a few cases (All of
those that would involve lots of ships fighting each other… I am
planning to hit my players with the Fifth Frontier War soon). Funnily
enough I don’t seem to be the only one doing that, as there are some
nice and concise other houserules for exactly that on the net.

The system is free and online, and seems to be easy to handle. Which is
good, considering that my experiences with wargames are so few to be
nearly nonexistant. The rules are lightweight, the stat blocks are a
bit crude but effective, and all in all this seems to be a nice
addition to my game. Lets see if my players think the same.

A Sky Full of Ships – Free Rules (also as a pdf)
http://web.295.ca/danabbott/fleet.html

ASFoS-Traveller - Houserules for playing in Traveller
http://home.comcast.net/~steveosmanski/traveller-ASFoS.html

Resource page, with rules for Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Star
Wars, and a few others (seems to be outdated, but the replacement link
is not working) Tagged: Game, space warfare, Space warfare in fiction,
wargame
http://www.geocities.ws/inferno_s/index-2.html

Link
http://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/wargame-a-sky-full-of-ships/

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J.E.Geoffrey
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