FG: Galactic Overlord 8, Part 5

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Galactic Overlord
A New Forum Game from
Jamski Productions

Overview

Galactic Overlord is a game of space strategy and warfare for any number of players. It is turn based and builds on the success of the well-known Paper-Stone-Scissors^tm system. Each player is the ruler of a faction determined to bring the whole galaxy under their domination using every means at their disposal until they are the sole survivor and the almighty Galactic Overlord!

Setting up the Game

Each player starts the game with three Bases. A Base is a planet, hollowed out asteroid, huge space station or any other large structure capable of supporting life and industry. Each player also starts the game with 2 Counter-espionage options. Each of these options is capable of immunising the player that uses it against any enemy spy action for one turn. Each player also starts the game with 32 Build Points, or BPs. As long as the player has at least one base still in operation he receives an additional 5 BPs each turn per home base, and 2 BPs each turn per captured base. The player's BPs can be used to build Ships or more Bases according to the following table:

Turn zero
You may give any orders except Attack! during turn zero, the prebuild turn. In essence, you can build ships or bases, as well as either a shield or a spy.


Spending BPs

Self-built bases 1 through 6 cost 16BP each.
Self-built bases 7 through 12 cost 24BP each.
Self-built bases 13 through 18 cost 32BP each and so on.

Frigate......1 BP     
Cruiser......2 BPs
Battleship...3 BPs
Dreadnaught..4 BPs
Titan........5 BPs

The more expensive the Ship, the more Bases are required to build one:

Frigate......1 home Base     
Cruiser......2 home Bases
Battleship...3 home Bases
Dreadnaught..4 home Bases
Titan........5 home Bases

***NOTE - Only self-built bases count towards maximum hull sizes***

Each Ship built can be armed as you wish with Lasers, Fighters or Torpedoes with each weapon taking up one unit of space from the Ship's total. A ship may only carry one kind of weapon.

Frigate......1 unit of space/3 hit point     
Cruiser......2 units of space/6 hit points
Battleship...3 units of space/9 hit points
Dreadnaught..4 units of space/12 hit points
Titan........5 units of space/15 hit points

EXAMPLE : A Battleship might have 3xLasers (Laserbattleship), a Cruiser 2xTorpedoes(Torpedocruiser) and a Frigate 1xFighters (Carrierfrigate).

BP's may be stockpiled for use later during the game.

Playing the Game - Orders

This part of the game is similar to Nuclear War^tm. Each player sends his orders to the GM who processes them all together once they are received.

Normal Orders (you may make all three of these orders in conjunction with the orders in the next section)

• Build Ships/Bases : You may spend your BPs or stockpile them for later. Ships built that turn may be used for attack and defence, Bases built may be destroyed that turn. Damaged Ships may be fully repaired for a cost of 1 BP (Now you see why big ships are good)
  ***NOTE - You need to already have bases built for them to count for hull size allowance.***
• Use Counter-espionage : You may use one Counter-espionage order per turn, to a total of two, to protect your orders from enemy spies’ interference. Once used up, this option cannot be rebuilt.
• Use Spies : If you have a Spy you may stop one of your opponents orders that turn being executed. The Spy is lost. Spy affects Attack!, Rebuild Generator and Train Spy. You cannot build a spy and use a spy in the same turn.

Special Orders (you can choose only one of these per turn)

• Attack! : This starts a fight between your fleet and that of an opponent. You must choose which ships to send, and which to leave at home in case you yourself are attacked that turn. See Combat for more.
• Raise Shields! : This protects your Bases and Ships from all attacks that turn, and also stops any spies. Any opposing fleet that attacks you will take hits equal to 10% of total tonnage (distributed as per combat damage) while you remain snug and secure. The generator is exhausted by this use and must be rebuilt.
• Build Generator : Rebuilds a shield generator. Up to three shields can be stockpiled for later use.
• Train Spy : Trains and inserts a new Spy for your cause. Up to three spies can be stockpiled for later use. You cannot train a spy and use a spy in the same turn.

Alliances

You may want to organise joint attacks on an opponent with an ally. In this case you must agree on an Order of Battle between the allies. If two different opponents attack at the same time without informing the GM of their alliance, then the defender must fight them consecutively, fighting first against the one who posted their orders last.

It is possible that when a player is attacked by two non-allied fleets at the same time that he loses both battles. In this case both attackers gain a base. Allied fleets that attack together must decide who is to get the captured base.

The GM applies hits to allied fleets in the same way as to a normal fleet. This means that if one ally has smaller ships than his partner, he will take the bulk of the casualties. War is hell.

If not otherwise specified, multiple bases captured by an alliance will be divided up evenly between the fleets that actually arrived. Odd bases will be assigned to the members of an alliance that sent their orders first. Players may choose to redistribute them afterwards if they wish.

Transferring Ships & Bases:

In some situations, players may wish to transfer ships or bases among themselves. Trading ships in not allowed. Trading bases is allowed.

Clarification: The base is transferred at the end of the turn. So, if you were gonna give away some bases, but you lost the battle, your bases get captured by your attacker, not your ally.

Shields:

It is possible for a player to send out a fleet and have it run into a shield or lose the battle, while his home bases are simultaneously captured. In this situation, the fleet remains independent, but will lose all stockpiled shields, spies, and BPs, and will lose 10% (rounded down) of it’s original numbers every turn due to lack of supply. Thus, such a fleet would be advised to capture or negotiate for a base ASAP.

Clarification: Attrition begins place at the end of the turn the battle took place.

The GM

The GM will report each turn on the activities of each player. He will keep their orders secret, but will reveal their bases, the size and breakdown of their navy and their current BPs.

Winning the Game

You win the game by destroying all the bases and fleets of your opponents to become the Galactic Overlord^tm!!!

Note: Co-operative victories are not permitted.

Playing the Game - Combat
Combat Version 1.3

Combat is a simple, and yet complex, Paper-Stone-Scissors^tm system :

Lasers    - beat - Fighters
Fighters  - beat - Torpedoes
Torpedoes - beat - Lasers

If your weapon beats the other fleet's weapon, your raw attack strength against them is doubled, cumulative with all other modifiers.

Every player must also specify an "Order of Battle" every turn, whether attacking, or expecting to be attacked. Failure to do so results in a random OOB. This is simple to do though. The OOB is divided into two groups of three weapons each. You must have 2 of each type in any order.

EXAMPLE 1: Lasers-Fighters-Torpedoes-Laser-Torpedoes-Fighters (LFTLTF)
EXAMPLE 2: Lasers-Torpedoes-Laser-Torpedoes-Fighters-Fighters (LTLTFF)

These can be further refined by different tactics.
Tactics 1 - Range:
You may instruct your captains to try to engage at different ranges.

• Close In - Lasers from both fleets count an extra x2. If both fleets Close In then this stacks to a x4. This negates Back Off.
• Back Off - Lasers from both fleets count an extra x0.5 penalty. This is negated by Close In. If both players Back Off this stacks to x0.25.

Default is no special orders.

Tactics 2 - Formation:
You may instruct your captains to engage using different formations.

• Bunch Together - Your ships huddle together to protect each other from Fighters, but are more vulnerable to the large explosions of Torpedoes. Attacks with Fighters against Bunched Together fleets are at x0.5, while Torpedoes get x2.
• Spread Out - Your ships spread out, making the fleet hard to target with Torpedoes, while leaving individual ships vulnerable to Fighters. Attacks with Fighters against Spread Out fleets are at x2, while Torpedoes get x0.5

Default is no special orders. These orders can be used even when sending out a single ship.

Tactics 3 – Miscellaneous:
[*]The attacking player may decide to attack to the death. In that case, proceed as normal, but repeat the combat until one side or the other is completely destroyed.[*]You may set different OOBs for different enemies, if you wish, but always send a default OOB in, to cover any situation not specially mentioned.

Example of full OOBs:

Attack: TFFLLT back off, bunch
Defence: LFTFTL close in, default

New for Combat v 1.4
Maneuver (M)- your ships do not fire and take normal damage. On the next round their firepower is doubled. You can only maneuver once, and it may not be in the 3rd or 6th slot of your OoB.
Disengage (D)- Defensive only. You withdraw your fleet in the middle of battle. No damage is taken in the round your fleet withdraws (though damage from previous rounds will still be dealt) and your opponent takes your bases. Note that your opponent must still have ships alive at the end of the 3-round cycle to occupy bases.

• Add hitpoints for fleets involved in the battle (3xBP cost of fleets)
• Add total Fighters/Lasers/Torps in each fleet.
• Sort fleets according to their empire's Order of Battle. Fleets with no OoB are destroyed.
• Adjust raw fighter/laser/torp numbers.
• The fleet with the "winning" tactic in a given round has their raw total attack strength doubled.
• Spreading or bunching your fleet affect the opposition's raw total attack strength. Double or halve this accordingly.
• The higher adjusted total wins. Apply Hits equal to the difference between the totals.
• Every three rounds, tally up the hits taken by both sides, and apply them as losses, then continue on to the next three rounds, if applicable.
• Remove destroyed ships according to the following rule. All ships of one type first, before moving to the next type, in the same order as the order of battle. Start removing frigates first, titans last. Damaged ships don’t break formation.
• Combat continues until one fleet receives more hits than it has hitpoints, or 6 rounds of combat have taken place unless the attack ordered a fight to the death, in which case combat ends with the destruction of one fleet.
• A destroyed fleet loses.
• If both fleets survive, the fleet that takes the most Hits is the loser.
• If the attacker won, he captures one base.
• If the attacker destroyed the entire enemy fleet, he captures all his opponents bases.
  
  Additional rules concerning damaged ships
  Ships that have taken 1 or 2 hits of damage are repaired for free at the end of battle.
  Ships with more than 2 hits of damaged are automatically repaired for 1 BP, deducted from next turn's income.
  A player with no home bases and exactly 15 BPs as a result of such a repair may build a base using deficit spending.

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Cast of Characters

Polly Siffan
(Snoopy369)

Zol Ventis
(Skanky Burns)

General Ordin
(Kassiopeia)

Mr. Y
(Jonny)

Min Grah
(Geomodder)




Kit Chuss
(Joncha)

Ken Banobi
(Jaguar)

Lord Vetko
(Lord Nuclear)

Colony I
(Spaced Cowboy)

Agath Agathari
(Moron)

[Tassadar500]

And then there were ten...

[Tassadar500]

I also declare myself winner.

[Tassadar500]

I'm now going to go hide and cry in a corner of Eventis.

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Crosspost with previous thread


Chapter 13.7
End of an Era

Here is something to think about
Power abhors a vacuum.

The end of an era had come. With the Emperor defeated and his two loyalists stripped of their industrial bases, the galaxy began its journey of modernization. Leading the way were industrialists Mr. Y and Polly Siffan, and their left-wing rival Kit Chuss.

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Orders due on Sunday 5 PM Pacific.

[snoopy369]

Ahh 3 updates next week!

[Jonny]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Ahh 3 updates next week!

Good then. Maybe we can finish this game before we reach 10 threads, then?

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I don't think turn length has such a huge effect on posts per turn, that's more a factor of which players are still in the game.

[Tassadar500]

Do I still keep any specials?

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Smiley
I don't think turn length has such a huge effect on posts per turn, that's more a factor of which players are still in the game.

I believe it does - we get bored so we start talking

[Tassadar500]

On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed
And on Yom Kippur it is sealed
How many shall die and how many shall be born
Who shall live and who shall die
Who at the measure of days and who before
Who by fire and who by water
Who by the sword and who by wild beasts
Who by hunger and who by thirst
Who by earthquake and who by plague
Who by strangling and who by stoning
Who shall have rest and who shall go wandering
Who will be tranquil and who shall be harassed
Who shall be at ease and who shall be afflicted
Who shall become poor and who shall become rich
Who shall be brought low and who shall be raised high.

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Yes, you keep specials, they are only lost when you go completely baseless.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Smiley
Yes, you keep specials, they are only lost when you go completely baseless.

I feel so much better.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by snoopy369

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
If I ally, I keep my agreement. That way if I need an alliance later, I can still get people's trust. Taking the short-term view will cause more problems in the long-term. I know I will think twice before allying with people who have broken pacts before.

You still sticking by this Skanky?

Originally posted by Smiley
"I'm afraid so, Zol. Though it's not that bad, the only thing affected was our spy training program. It's not as if you ordered an attack anyway."

Reading is a virtue, snoopy.

[MORON]

I wonder how does the net productivity of the universe now stack up to the beginning of the game.....

[GeoModder]

/me plays kingmaker.

[Jamski]

On a distant moon spinning its lonely orbits around a virus-bombed world on the far edge of the galaxy the inhabitants, a primitive all-female society watched the fall of the escape pod with astonishment. Gathering fruit and nuts the tribal women hurried along the moon's stunning beaches and paddled across the crystal clear lagoons to find out what was at the base of this column of smoke rising through the pure warm air of the moon.

Basilius Naviwinat popped open the escape pod's hatch and took a deep breath and gazed around at the palm trees, at the tribal women already starting to chant their worship to the new Sky God, up at the wrecked planet that filled half the sky, up to the stars beyond where battles raged seemingly without end. He pulled a crumpled photocopy out of his pocket and looked at it. "OoB", it read. The letters hardly seemed to mean anything anymore. Basileus Naviwinat threw the paper away, and he didn't look at the sky again.

"Emperor, darling," came a call from inside the pod, "Are you done playing war yet?"

[GeoModder]

Orders sent!

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Originally posted by MORON
I wonder how does the net productivity of the universe now stack up to the beginning of the game.....

Higher actually, a net increase of 25 from 270 to 295.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns




Reading is a virtue, snoopy.

You think I can make heads or tails out of half of what Smiley posts? (Not that I mind, it is enough to figure out what is going on ...)

I assumed based on Kassi's post.

[Skanky Burns]

I would have to be pretty silly to write about keeping agreements if I knew I was breaking on that turn. That would be serious self-pwnage.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I would have to be pretty silly to write about keeping agreements if I knew I was breaking on that turn. That would be serious self-pwnage.

Yeah Tho i'm now quite confused by Kassi's posts that really sounded like your inability to ... build a spy? ... caused serious doubt as to Kassi's ability to ... beat Lord Nuke?

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The straightforward version of what happened:

Jonny spied Skanky, who was attempting to build a spy.
I'm not sure how Kass comes into this.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Smiley
The straightforward version of what happened:

Jonny spied Skanky, who was attempting to build a spy.
I'm not sure how Kass comes into this.

Oh we figured that out

Kassi made a comment after Skanky was spied that I interpreted to mean that he was relying on Skanky in an attack somewhere.

[Skanky Burns]

I think he was analysing events based on Smiley's initial comments about the turn.

[Kassiopeia]

Yes, I was mostly just doomsaying based on the information I had. I was well aware of Skanky's own plans.

[Kassiopeia]

Also, sent.

[Jamski]

News

I'm planning a complete overhaul of GO for the next game. I think we can forget version v1.6 and call this v2.0 by the time I'm done tinkering. Shields will stay, spies will stay, lasers, torpedoes and fighters will stay. Buildpoints will stay, but building fleets and dealing damage will be both more streamlined, and have more tactical options. How is this, you all gasp? Let's just say that I'm going to move the focus of fleet construction slightly.

Oh, and some kind of marketing comment about being committed to providing the best set of GO rules for you as possible

-Jam

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Jamski
News

I'm planning a complete overhaul of GO for the next game. I think we can forget version v1.6 and call this v2.0 by the time I'm done tinkering. Shields will stay, spies will stay, lasers, torpedoes and fighters will stay. Buildpoints will stay, but building fleets and dealing damage will be both more streamlined, and have more tactical options. How is this, you all gasp? Let's just say that I'm going to move the focus of fleet construction slightly.

Oh, and some kind of marketing comment about being committed to providing the best set of GO rules for you as possible

-Jam