Re: Space Pirates!

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Mar 24, 2011; 11:16am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Space-Pirates-tp6188813p6203683.html

Nice ideas here

I'd be tempted to make 2 minor changes before using the rules myself

Mezillious wrote

- Ships can only be operated by Commanders

This would mean that once your commander died your troops are trapped, instead I would mark 1 square in the shuttle as the 'control square' and whichever marine the player places in that square controls the shuttle

Mezillious wrote

- To dock with a board piece, the vessel must line up the door section to the area of the board they wish to breach. They must then roll 2 red die and score 2 or higher.

Unlike the larger Space Marine Assault Ships your shuttles don't have the docking claws required to brake through the hull of another space craft. I would designate several Airlocks/Docking points on the main board pieces which the shuttles can latch onto and board once the controlling marine has used his action to initiate the docking procedure    

BTW: WotC did some nice Starship floor-plans for their D20 Star Wars miniatures game which would be really nice to use for this scenario