Emulating other aspects of the BTu in some game format

[Daemion]

So, I was thinking about planetary conquest one night, and I recalled the interesting game called Dragon Dice.  One of the things I enjoyed about Dragon Dice were two things: 1) Each die represented a unit. When you had an army, you rolled all the dice, and you used the different results for different effects. One of which was... 2) Terrain Dice. They had a D20 that had different effect icons and a value which indicated range from target.  Movement icons allowed you to change the facing on the die if they outnumbered your opponent's.

Imagine having a pool of dice, each one representing a lance or company and objective dice that represented key places near a capital or on a world.



I know that I've wanted to see various aspects of BT tackled in a game format of some sort, just like the above. Catan for world- or region-building. A Cities & Knights add-on to have the occasional pirate raid.

But, I know there are others. What games have you looked at and thought 'Oooh! I could probably port that into BT for some fun way to cover X'?

[Hythos]

Exactly! A Tech-repairs and manufacturing "mini-game" is needed :)

[Kovax]

I always felt there should be some rules halfway between the BT battlefield and the old Succession Wars game, where you fight over a planet or star cluster in some sort of economic + military campaign game.  My impression is that some developer like Paradox or possibly Slitherine would be capable of handling the complexities; a primarily FPS/RTS oriented or "strategy-lite" company wouldn't.