Greetings, Commander.
Long range sensors have detected an enemy flotilla in-bound. Burn your engines to intercept. They must not threaten the home world!
Contact: Red is a multiplayer 3D space combat simulation. Custom design your ships, deal with real (ish) physics, locate and destroy the enemy.
{I ran a game like this many years ago, and was recently inspired to see if I could recreate the spreadsheet that allows me to track objects in a 3D space and give ranges and relative bearings, etc. It turns out that I could, even if it took me a lot longer than I remember it taking last time.}
Each turn a player will be told where their ship is in relation to other objects, their vectors, etc.
For example:
Contact Alpha: range 110, 58 degrees, +37 degrees. Heading 113 degrees, -45 degrees, speed 12.
Each player will give orders to their ship allocating energy to weapons or engines or thrusters (engines accelerate the vessel, thrusters change the direction the vessel is pointing). Fire torpedoes or lasers, etc.
This post is to see if there are folks interested in playing. More rules if there is interest.
Yeah I probably won't have much time in the near future...
I'm happy to continue this game if there is interest. It just seemed that there was no interest for a long time.
Since posting it here I've taken the inspiration and simplified it into a game about penguins having a race.
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2664736/wip-iceblock-derby-8th-rw-comp-components-ready
Sorry, I completely forgot this, and the notifications i got are overflowing and they seems a bit random (hence i didnt notice the mention of my name).
Seemingly, a lack of interest?
What happened?
Sure. Coming in several hours.
@GhostofNobodyInParticular @sasska @The Jabbawookiee
Would you like to submit a ship please?
I'll sit this one out but I'll try to follow what's going on.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1abqAo81HFoMIdtHla4F8w12kR5foJ2Jrapq-0-mmPuA/edit?usp=sharing
This link should take you to the ship design sheet. Please just change the numbers in the "number" column to design your ship.
I think we should play team vs GM for the first round. Take 1200 credits (T-Bills) and design your ship and post here. You can buy Sensor and Laser Drones if you wish.
Have you encountered a game called Sonar Captain? Is it similar at all?
The essential rules can be found here:
https://daveswargames.blogspot.com/2021/04/contact-red.html
Cool cool.
I will continue to work on this project.
Any other interested parties?
@Bertie Wooster
@The Jabbawookiee
@Thirty Seven in Red
@idjmv
?
Im not necessarily sure i'll have the time for it, but i'm interested too!
This sounds really neat! Though I always was bad at math and physics. . .