Editing New Space: Ships (section)

== Ship Combat ==

In various roleplaying games, you have many rule sets where you can roleplay out Ship to Ship combat. Such rules are found in GURPS: ''Space'', LUG's ''Star Trek: the Next Generation RPG'' (Rules of Engagement, pg. 139-149), Star Wars Saga RPG, and perhaps many others.  However, I suggest you use [http://www.ironcrown.com/?page_id=232 Silent Death] rules to resolve Ship-to-Ship combat, especially when you are dealing with an armada of ships.

In terms of ship combat, I suggest you treat the universe as Space Opera rather than Hard SF.  This allows for dog fighting and is generally safer for the player characters.  Hard SF battles means that ships are less agile and less able to turn on a dime (since in space, you don't have anything like a gas to push against).  You have to use maneuvering thrusters to change the speed of your ship and turn.  In New Space, however, the ships are pushing against something that fills the vacuum of space; Plasma and Solar Winds. This allows them to turn much more quickly; almost as if they are in an Atmosphere. However if you don't have ''Silent Death'', then use the rules of your Sci-Fi RPG.  If you have the SpaceMaster supplement -- ''Tech Law: Vehicle Manual''; then use those rules since these ships are built according to those rules.