Ascent to Greatness: A Junior Officer's Tale

[Azatol]

Well I'm in first place and way ahead of everyone else in tech, and it seems the rest of game is going to play out without a lot of excitement. Stories like this aren't very fun to read or write without some real challenging opponents. The Amon'krie never even sent more than one ship at a time against me, it was pathetic.

So I'm ending this AAR because its just not got the excitement. I'm going to go download TDM mod and hopefully have some more interesting games to write about.

[Suicide Junkie]

Yeah, the lack of competition was noticable.

A carrier battles mod game might be good. Plenty of crew turnover, and border skirmishes can go back and forth with survivors on both sides.

As long as you don't get to the point where you describe *this* as merely a "border skirmish"
A small map would help in that regard.

Considering that a story game would have fairly slow turns, I'd be happy to play an AI or two for you

[Azatol]

Maybe I should try to get into a good story game on PBW, or start one. If you really want to help out as an "ai", sounds cool to me.

I think the problem with the perspective of a junior officer is that most of the routines on a naval ship (and by extension a space ship) are well... routine.

When I was first introducing him I could give detail, but after a while, the lack of good battles made it hard to talk from his perspective and I gradually went away from that.

Carrier Battles mod sounds good for a PBW version. I'd like to scrounge up the Star Wars mod, if that still works with the latest Space empires version. Another mod that could work is P&N, with all human players being pirates or nomads, and some AIs as regular forces. That would facilitate more of a focus on just the ship.

I kinda wish there was a game in between Star Fury and Space Empires in style and scale. Especially since I like the tactical combat in Space Empires but sometimes wish I could lead a small fleet in Star Fury. (And I wish I could start out with a Battlemoon or something, heh)

One more idea on the PBW thing, if Carrier Battles has infantry size troops like Proportions, we could give all our ships some cargo space and have officers on them, allowing us to say whose onboard and when they transfered and such.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Azatol said:
One more idea on the PBW thing, if Carrier Battles has infantry size troops like Proportions, we could give all our ships some cargo space and have officers on them, allowing us to say whose onboard and when they transfered and such.

AAAnd of course if you make your main character one of those officers, he's bound to get wasted at some point. And not just your main character; what about the other, secondary characters? One big battle, suddenly you're forced to work with half the cast you used to work with.