Space Empires the Board Game???
 

Ok, what about it? SEIV the Board Game? Think of it, a game you can play with the whole family without ever having too turn on your PC. An epic game of galatic conquest.

Hell the rules are simple enough. Most forum games use them. Simply update them, and set them up for board game play.

While Shrapnels at it, they could also do board game for some of their other fine games.

Set a standard, Shrapnel Board Games, the board games of the 21st Century.

Hell I would by an SEIV Board Game.

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hell yes! a board game would be just G_R_E_A_T!

just explain me the "all-know" rules i've never heard of?

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Hum, if you never heard of em, then I guess we would have to make some up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif That's not really hard, just time consuming. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I personaly would love an SE IV. I would even buy it. I expect I would never play it.
There was a game out in the 80's by Yakinto,(sp?)
called Battle.
It was a very easy game and could be taught to the average non gamer family. It could be "modded" to fit any "ERA" from Fantacy to Future.
If you want more info, please let me know.
It was a greate, "Beer and Pretzles" game.

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Oh, and I'm sure you know about "Star Fire" that SE is based on. That was far to complex to try to introduce to a family. It was "Spread Sheet **ell" to quote my x family.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif No computer? That would be too much like real life.

Actually I think that SE IV is a little too complicated for the "average" family. Either that or the board game would have to be too watered down that it would not do the original justice. Sort of like how most books are better than the movies made about them.

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Try "Twilight Imperium" for all your galactic conquest needs http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Twilight Imperium

Its a nice little board game.. perhaps a bit long winded for a family play session though. It takes us a good 4 - 6 hours to play a 6 player game... especialy when we all know how to play.. its very cut throat and everyone gangs up on the leader http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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The company that published Battle was spelled Yaquinto.

For a "family game", the upper limit of complexity is around the level of the game Risk.

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Anyone play the space game "Silent Death", fairly easy to play, its the die rolls that always get to me. SE4 could be set up similiar to it..

just some ideas mac

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The first 4X game I ever played was called Stellar Conquest. It was a board game, and a lot of fun, but definitely not something for your average family to play. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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capnq,
Any idea who owns the rights to it?
I'd love to do some commercial things with it.

Is anybody interrested in a "Star Fire / Space Empires" Version?
It is turn based
The game does not use dice.
Each unit has an strength number
It can be modified by the terrain

On your turn you move your units up to his, (if you want)
If your strength is greater than his,
You remove his units
If they are weaker, um, I forget but I think nothing happens
I modded the game to play on a Panzer Blitz / Panzer Leader board.

I could see an "SE" Version where you could design your ships and the other players would not know what they were till you compared them.
Hmm, Sissors, Paper, Rock would be possible.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">is that the one published by Ground Zero Games? in the good old glory-days of tuesday night battletech, some of the old crew played that game, and had nice things to say about it. i always wanted to pick it up, but never got to it. The same company makes two great ground combat games, one scaled for AFVs and the other scaled for infantry. Dirtside II and Stargrunts II. fast gameplay, lots of fun.

man, i would love to be playing tabletop wargames again.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Interesting. Sound vaguely familar....

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Puke, Silen Death is/was made by a company called ICE, large table top space map, I started playing it when I tried it at Gen Con In Columbus, Ohio about 4-5 yrs ago, has some neat ships and names
like, Strom, Teal Hawk, DraKar, Salamander, Hell Bender, Spirit Rider and lot more, each race has their own specialty ships as well that no one else can have, fun game,
I agree I haven't played a good table top game in several yrs, Last one was Silent Death, one of my favorists was TSS by Spi.. one of the all time best Civil War Games ever designed (in my opinion)
You just gave me an idea for a new thread...

just some ideas mac

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You can get info on StarFire here. The link is near the bottom of the player link page on Malfador's Web site.

ICE (Iron Crown Enterprises) is, to the best of my knowledge, now defunct.

AtP

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">oh yeah, i was thinking of FULL THRUST. in that case, i have seen the Silent Death box, but never heard much about it until now.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dunno. According to Web Grognards (link), Yaquinto stopped publishing games in '83, but are still operating as a printing firm (link).

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capnq,
Thanks for the links, I know it is kinda wierd, but I do have "nostalgic" feellings to something that I did for over 20 years.
Anybody interested in a very simple turn based higly moddible, (is that a word?), board game?