Re: Boarding parties question
Nice ideas to all below. :-))
I never really liked how the current boarding
is handled. (and i did not like the pictures, but thatīs just personal taste)
I would like to add the following ideas:
Give all "warship-hulls" a specific boarding +and+ security rating depending on hullsize, representing armed sailors on small ships and
specificly trained marine parties on larger ships. (I think this is an real world approach/18th and 19th century also).
+boarding only possible if one ship is shields down +and+ immobilized. (tractor / repulsor weapons could benefit from this)
+all normal troop types in cargo holds get only a fraction of their combat value, representing men armed with small arms and lacking shipboard training.But lots of warm
bodies can overwelm boarders. these troops can +not+ board other ships and take great
casualities in a boarding action.
+decrease the a.m. hull rating with damage,
to enable smaller ships to capture larger ones. (representing loss of personal to
combat casualitis, low morale, injured and
fatigued crew)
+add a new troop size/type. say a raider marine in space combat armour with some kind
of +small+ (say 10 kt)bay component for storing. with this you can create a small
specialized boarder ship and as it is small
can put this on larger /civil ships for
insurence and in case of war fill it with
marines. the marines can +not+ invade a
planet due to specialisation.
+an afterthought for this bay component.
create a special force type troop for this
also. make him quite expansive.
but this can represent saboteurs droped prior
to normal troops which can destroy military
installations (WP, shield generators, some
percent of troops). this can ease invasions,
and they are expansive enough (maintaince and building)only to be used for the hardest,
most valuable targets. and their transports
must run the gauntlet of fire to the planet.
therefore no sneak attacks as well defended planets will down their transports.
these sf can not invade the planet. thats
what normal troops are for.
Any comments are welcome. (If this are
stupid ideas pls say so)
If they have some merit feel free to point
MM or others to them to include them in their mods.
Personally i think that the above can possibly implemented without to much
difficulty as component addition.
if the a.i. can handle them, that is a
whole other world.
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