Boarding Rules Inspiration?

[Gir Quee]

There is a set of fan-made boarding rules for a certain miniature space game that I think might be interesting to try in our own setting.

The advantages of the system as it stands are relative simplicity, an element of chance, and the card system add some interesting writing opportunities.

Some disadvantages include that it doesn't really take into account force-users or any chemical/biological weapons.

For reference, CP and AP mean "crew points" (typical sailors and the like) and "assault points" (defensive marines, battle droids, etc). A typical frigate in the game has 3 CP and 1 AP, whereas a battleship(analogous to a star destroyer) may have a 7 CP and 5 AP.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Gir Quee"]
It's good...but far too interactive and war-game-like to be useful for us here.

However, I welcome anything people do to make boarding rules to replace the ones I used.

 

[Cyrus Tregessar]

I don't think we need a lot of rules for boarding. It's not done terribly often and is usually RP'd out. The issue could arise of course that people start boarding left and right to take out key ships, and there should be something to prevent that from becoming a problem.

If anything we should focus on how incredibly difficult it would be, unless you've got specially made boarding droids, I suppose. And possibly squash any notion of ever capturing a ship via boarding, since that's basically impossible.

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Cyrus Tregessar"], I certainly am not personally interested in seeing fleet battles turn into the Star Wars equivalent of the Battle of Mylae. From my perspective, that looks like a chance to turn fleeting into PVP for Force-users.

But I've seen several Republic ships boarded by One Sith recently, and so I thought if the trend continues, I'd throw up it there to give some ideas to make it more objective-based rather than just another duel.

I probably will try out this system when I'm writing more of a pure, non-competitive story just to see how it turns out.