The Dog's Brush: Wear your vac suit at all times, because all it takes is one rail gun slug to vent this whole compartment into space.
Welcome to the playtest version of Rail Gun, a set of wargaming rules for creating sci-fi spaceship battles on the table top. It is intended as a game somewhere between hard-core simulation and quick-play beer and pretzel games. It borrows aspects from both of those kinds of space ship games, and injects some ideas from air combat and naval gaming.
This is the playtest version of the rules. Anyone who buys will end up with the final version of the rules for free, and can provide any feedback/commentary they want (or sit back and enjoy the updates).
Some general details and information about the game:
1) A typical game involves 2-8 ships per side, and takes 45 minutes to 2 hours to play.
2) The game uses D10s and measurements in inches, and is scale neutral--you can use any sized ships. It requires a 3'x3' or bigger space.
3) Light bookeeping is required. Each ship's data fits on a 3x5 index card.
4) Movement is done by “vector.” There’s nothing to slow you down in space and there is no in-game speed limit. Speed carries over from turn to turn.
5) Knowing that the enemy is out there is one thing; hitting them with fire is another. Detecting targets—and trying to make yourself less detectable—are built into the firing rules.
6) Once a ship starts getting damaged, it will likely lose key systems in a hurry.
7) Weapons are simplified to a Firepower value, a range, and a “class” designation.
8) The game is played 2-d.
9) Ammo is tracked, but abstractly.
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