IO Without Frame Companies

[Luke_BMM]

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[Meaker VI]

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[Luke_BMM]

Additionally (or alternately), how about swapping the 4+ damage from Assault to Point. Doing so unfortunately also weakens Assault over Support, which might be a problem.

Point weapons ignore cover and always hit on 4-6.
Assault and Support weapons cause damage on 5-6 (with no cover) or 6 with cover.

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[Joshua A.C. Newman]

...except that there's almost never any cover.

[Luke_BMM]

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[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Oh! Hey! You can make it so ships can board each other from Dogfight or Point range. Roll as many dice as each ship has remaining systems. When a ship gets captured, use the new resistance rules. Every time the original owner of the ship removes a 4+, they get to remove an additional die on the next round. Once they've removed a die from each system, they've recaptured their ship. If a friendly (or just allied) ship helps them, they roll a die for every die they've removed and add them to the new boarder's dice.

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[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Hm! OK, that means that you've got very limited ways to score. In :RA, you can just fall back to Plan B, but in :IO, it's hard to even turn the ships around.

Most of the time, you keep HVAs close because someone can just drop a company on them at any point. This means the best thing to do is put them far away, removing them as much as possible from the tactical space.

I think you'll have to fall back to source material here:

In WWII, the job of the navy was largely to support/prevent troop movements. Nation 1 would need to move soldiers, materiel, or supplies between islands A and B, so they'd send them with an escort. It's the job of Navy 2 to stop them.

So what you'd want here is a wholly different setup for determining score, and likely conditions that included getting an HVA from point A to B.

Fortunately, I have plans for this kind of thing! But it takes actual game design to make it work!

[Meaker VI]

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[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Not gonna say I don't have any plans for a Micro Construct Tactics Nova pirate ship game. But I'm not gonna say I do, either.

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[Sovietshadow]

Yay pirates! And its ok that you necro'd it. It's always better to get a fresh perspective. As long as your just necro-ing old posts and not zombies, we'll be ok.

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Here's the battle report from the game in question.