Re: Curious about SGII

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Roger Books wrote:

> Quick curiousity question,
> 
>   I've never seen the rules so I know nothing about the game
> system, but I was wondering how well they would work for a 
> boarding action?  Would you have to heavily modify them 
> Scenario: 
> 
> A group of trained space marines on ship, boarding action 
> from religious fanatics.  Marines turn off artificial
> gravity figuring that the fanatics won't have null-g 
> experience.  (Borrowed from Paladin, 
> http://www.angelfire.com/or/FireHorse/ )  How well would
> SGII deal with this?	Is this more something that could
> be done by DS which I also have no experience with.

SG2 isn't strictly a skirmish game - it's a squad-vs-squad game.

You could change the ground scale to allow for boarding type actions
(where space & LOS are limited) but it's really set up for firefights
outdoors.

There are also no zero-G rules - these would have to be house rules as
well. It could be interesting - maybe adapt FT's vector movement to SG,
and have various thrust belts & similar. For real fun, do it in proper
3d
with vector movement. Training level would obviously be paramount - the
different levels of training in SG could limit the maneuvers allowed -
force reaction checks for certain actions.

Pick up a copy of SG2 - it's a great game just on it's own, and you can
probably come up with house rules for the situation you describe. If you
do, share them with the list!

Brian
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9774/games.html
(athough I'm joining the exodus from Geocrap next week!)