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  • #1612169

    macrossmartin
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    Greetings, fellow space-cadets.

    After watching a game design discussion with author Mike Hutchinson on Guerrilla Miniature Games’ youtube channel I am seriously ruminating (ohh, those prunes), on the idea of getting into A Billion Suns.

    The game’s central premise seems to be space mega-corporations hire mercenary fleets to do their dirty work in vacuum, so you can choose pretty much anything for your ships, and have at it. Working for different corps brings different advantages, and your fleet can be working for one corp one week, and another the next without painting an entire new fleet.

    (Although painting a couple of fleets for cola wars in space has some appeal…)

    Any insights from anyone lucky enough to have tried the game already?

    If you are also thinking along my line, what’s your motive for boshing paint onto steel leviathans of the void?

    #1612172

    avernos
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    33467xp

    the game is a lot of fun, I particularly like the fact that scenarios are generated first and then you have to build your fleet to complete your objective while staying under budget.

    I’m currently building two fleets based on the Babylon 5 Fleet Action game and can see it being a lot of fun in the long term.

    I interviewed Mike a couple of weeks ago, it will be on the channel on Tuesday 23rd. In the meantime find yourself a fleet you like and get to painting

    #1612182

    sundancer
    42560xp
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    I’m tempted…. still clinging to the “I will get through this year without yet another system” 😉

    #1612184

    limburger
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    I bet you can use your Xwing fleet @sundancer

    Consider it an upgrade from Xwing v2 😀

    so technically all you’re buying is a new version upgrade pack 😉
    (and it’s cheaper than the v1-v2 Xwing upgrade … )

    #1612185

    sundancer
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    I could see SW:Armada working but not X-Wing…

    #1612187

    onlyonepinman
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    I am very tempted. I have been 3D printing space ships for a while now with the intention of painting them up like the Infinity factions and Billion Suns seems like it would be a good rules set to go with.

    At the moment all the ships are just sat in tubs but when I get around to painting them up I will probably do a project for it. I have no idea whether or not the classes I ran with will align to Billion Suns but I am sure, being an agnostic rules set, I will be able to shoe horn my models into the game.

    I went with 8 size classes, starting at 0 (because I am an Ada programmer by trade and that’s just how it’s done).

    Class 0 – Dreadnoughts and Fleet Carriers, generally over 12cm with a soft limit at 12cm (although that’s more of a guide than a limit)

    Class 1 – Battle/Heavy Cruisers and Assault Carriers, generally 10-12cm long

    Class 2 – Light Cruisers, generally 8-10cm long

    Class 3 – Destroyers, generally 6-8cm long

    Class 4 – Frigates, generally 4-6 cm long

    Class 5 – Corvettes, 3-4cm lonh

    I also added Bombers and Fighters as classes 6 & 7 just in case the rules support such things. In order to build the fleets, I have had to steal ships from well known IPs

    #1612346

    blipvertus
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    Maybe. If I do, I might use my Dropfleet models. Or maybe some War Rocket minis as I like the retro theme. (Same universe as Retro Raygun.).

    #1612477

    hairybrains
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    I have it on order, and have quite a few SW armada and dropfleet ships and I have the files from Game God

    https://www.gamegodterrain.com/sci-fi

    but I haven’t printed any yet as I am not sure what or how many I will need of each.

    As for why, always loved my big spaceship games and I thought I would give this a go, sounds like fun the buy in to low as you only need the book if you have some ships already

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    #1612532

    torros
    23802xp
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    Havent really got into a good miniatures fleet space game since Full thrust . Amazon are saying the rules will be here tomorrow 18/02 so looking forward to giving them a brief read through as I can’t  see any games being  played until at least the summer

    #1613072

    torros
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    It arrived

    20210218_172842

    #1613216

    osbad
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    I’m thinking about this.  I like space fleet games.  Looking forward to seeing the lets play.

     

    Edit: just hit “buy”…

    #1613436

    captainventanus
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    4765xp

    Picked up a copy read through it last night. I get the unique elements of the rules and can see how this might give quite a different gaming experience. Managing resources and having to prioritise different battles is a different so of challenge. I’m happy to give it a try using DFC fleets, no harm in that ever. Overall I’m not unhappy to have gotten the rules, but beyond trying it out for the challenge I can’t see myself playing this much. I am far less interested than I was a good year ago when looking over the early concept on the website.

    #1613455

    onlyonepinman
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    My copy arrived this morning (following an impulse buy on Amazon) and I think I can easily map the ship classes I invented onto those described in the book. I will also see whether it’s possible to invent a new class for the light carriers I envisioned using (perhaps allowing them to carry less or only allow them to house specific ship types). This might be my next project after I finish Star Saga

    #1613516

    doomrider
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    1411xp

    I just bought the new 40k rulebook, Zona Alfa, and Baron’s War. I don’t need another system. God damn I need that one, too.

    #1613553

    lonkelo
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    I’ve been staring at my bitsbox for ages, thinking I could kitbash myself a basic fleet out of it. A Billion Suns is the perfect excuse for me to do so.

    I’m really liking the idea of playing across multiple tables and deciding on your fleet after the game starts.

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