Comments on: First Game Design Concepts

By: Broadsword08

Broadsword08 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:08:50 +0000

How does one become a playtester or is it too late?

By: ThreeGees

ThreeGees — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:23:08 +0000

Ooops that first should have been, “Air Combat Tactics with multi-thousand ton floating ships?”

By: ThreeGees

ThreeGees — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:22:15 +0000

Air Combat Tactics with multi-thousand ton floating ships. I think of it as naval warfare without water, everybody on the same relative plane and moving at rather slow speeds (maxing at 30 knots or so, somewhere done the timeline)

By: Beermonkey

Beermonkey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:57:10 +0000

As a playtester all I can tell you guys is this. It’ll be worth the wait. The artwork and background really do grab you. I find my self pulling up the pictures and just staring at them. I havent’ done that since I was a kid. Really great stuff.

By: Goober

Goober — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:28:45 +0000

The artwork looks amazing, I saw the book they had at Origins and I cannot wait to get a look at the boxed set.

My father even wants to get his hands on this. Hope the game is as good as the art. If it is, you will have a hit on your hands.

By: RAE

RAE — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:05:15 +0000

>Unless Leviathans is going to assume every airship is on the same plane, which wouldn’t reflect “real” air combat tactics.

Actually, it is. It was confirmed a few posts ago that attitute most likely won’t be included in the basic rules.

By: Wrangler

Wrangler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:37:51 +0000

Sounds like coming on great.

I would prefer to use of smaller hex-based maps like the ones used by Heavy Gear. With more hexs per map, it would give alot more room to manuver. I’ve noticed from the AT2 games that limited map space caused less flexiablity in doing fancy manuvers. I know its economic to use BT maps, but i rather have more room with single map than a typical BT map.

Keep good work up!

By: mbear

mbear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:43:52 +0000

@StCptMara: I’m surprised that you didn’t list Altitude as a modifier. Unless Leviathans is going to assume every airship is on the same plane, which wouldn’t reflect “real” air combat tactics.

OK. Three comments in one day is enough.

By: mbear

mbear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:42:04 +0000

Oh, and the artwork looks SWEET!

And using a BattleTech map has another advantage: Players can borrow the mapsheets and flip them over to make huge play fields.

By: mbear

mbear — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:40:47 +0000

Totally unrelated to this post, I saw something on your timeline that made me curious:

“1847Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.”

What is an antisceptic? Is this supposed to be “antiseptics” or is Fox Mulder going to appear as Captain of a Leviathan?