Realtime or turnbased tactical combat?

Sabin · #1 May 9th, 2005, 03:17 PM

Hopefully, it would be possible to create ships and mecha like SDF-1(transforming battleship of Robotech fame) and the like...actually, that brings up a question/idea: Would it be possible for...say, a fighter to transform into a battle armor, or a battle ship to switch from "navigation" mode to "battle" mode?(Aka, going from fast-weak ship to slow-strong ship)

I figured I would ask...I mean, it might seem silly but I am a big fan of anime, Gundam, Robotech, and the fantastic.

Suicide Junkie · #2 May 9th, 2005, 09:19 PM

That would have to involve losing engines and gaining weapons, or some wacky thing like that, would it not?

Sabin · #3 May 9th, 2005, 11:29 PM

Hrm...maybe a system of "Active" and "Inactive" components would be involved. I imagine that this can actually play a role for non-transforming ships and such, too...like a battleship making a long-range trip, needs fuel supplies and disables it's weapons and battle shields in supposedly friendly territory. It makes good distance, and suddenly a cloaked enemy ship ambushes it, causing great damage and such due to the weapons and shields being "Inactive".

The ship survives, and doesn't have much fuel, and poor hull integrity...it uses the fuel pods, and disables all non-critical functions, and enables "boosters" to increase it's warp speed/impulse power or the like to run to the nearest space dock as quickly as possible...

Yes, I guess it is somewhat crazy, heh.