Mobile Frame Zero: Dog Fight

[VitorFaria]

After some study I realized that my turret implementation differs from Joshua's in a really interesting way!

Joshua's gets stronger the more spotting your opponent has, while mine would waste a nice spotting, since it can only make one damage per strike. 5 damage dice or less mine is usually more powerful, 6 or more Joshua's become a better bet.

I like that difference enough that I'm going to implement both at the same time, Joshua's turret becomes "turret" and mine becomes "disruptor turret".

I would also like thank Francisco Duarte for helping me out with a pdf!

Speaking about PDFs, here's an early version!

[CmdrRook]

Perhaps rendering the images of movement examples would be helpful, as the quality of the photos makes it difficult for me to tell which hinges are red in the template figure. I recommend carefully standardizing your terms, as you refer to 2-6 ruler units as both "Direct Fire" and "medium" range in the document. Otherwise this is an exciting development, and I'm very pleased it exists. I have a question about the rules. Are the movement templates locked? Could I choose a hard turn on some of the units but a gentler turn or straight with others? Can I snap inward at the end of a gentle bank?

[VitorFaria]

Thanks for the excellent and on point constructive criticism, Rook! All of those issues will be addressed soon!

Oddly enough, those are renders already, not pictures, but yeah, the orange/red contrast is kinda hard to pick, gonna change the colors and render it again.

The movement templates are indeed locked, it's "all or nothing" for each of them. I will reword the movement section to make this clearer as well.

[VitorFaria]

New 0.0.3 version is out already!

[VitorFaria]

And so is version 0.0.4.

Mostly some small corrections and clarifications. With a design considerations section so it's easier to know what I'm trying to do in the first place.

Also, four SSRs to make it slightly shootier!

[VitorFaria]

Version 0.0.5 is already out!

In which might be the the most radical Dog Fight change to date. I present you the Maneuver Re-balance.

By shifting the template values around, now the movement will feel more like IO, if you don't spend good dice values with greens, you might go further forward than you would want to. Yet, all the important maneuvers are still 4 or under, to keep flying from being way too difficult.

Also, some minor renaming, courtesy of our Discord channel friends!

Coming soon: Different fighter size classes!

[VitorFaria]

After too much of a long time not being able to work on this project, here's Dog Fight version 0.0.6!

Size classes finally implemented with some other optional rules to spice things up!

And a reminder, only two the weeks until the end of the competition, so if you still have some fighters to post, do it fast!

[CmdrRook]

If I choose a as my fourth heavy fighter system, have I simply added a health point to a medium?

[VitorFaria]

If I choose a as my fourth heavy fighter system, have I simply added a health point to a medium?

No, the maneuver templates are different between the classes, a heavy will have more trouble tuning with a lower dice roll.

[VitorFaria]

Thanks Rob!

[Trokodile]

Thanks Rob!

Nice to see that this is still being improved upon, even if it's just scaling of the rulebook. As someone who has played Star Wars X-Wing before, I like the movement types and I now want to try out a Dogfight game!

[VitorFaria]

Thanks, Trok!

Oh, it's not just the scaling, there are other subtle changes and fixes as well!