Slag Space combat for the common man.

     Slag is a fast and simple space combat game that you can play anywhere, anytime. You don't need fancy maps, hordes of dice, decks of cards or reams of rules. All you really need is a sheet of paper for your fleet, a handful of spare change and a space the size of a checkerboard, or a plain old sheet of hex paper.

     Slag is a wonderfully simple and elegant game. It takes the complex nature of ship construction and space combat and makes it as simple as possible while still keeping whatever realism we can manage. Many assumptions about the nature of this type of combat are abstracted into the rules without being explicitly stated.(role of fuel consumption, vector movement, three-dimensional combat, ship structure, etc.)

• Design your own ships or use those provided
  • Determine Tech levels
  • Determine hull size
  • Assign Engines, Defenses, General Systems and Weapons
  • Assign point value based on all the above statistics
  • Ship layout is important for determining damage, weapons arcs and function.
• Setup involves
  • Decide Fleet Size (based on point value)
  • Decide map size (usually larger ships require larger map size to maneuver)
  • Decide game length (the number of turns before someone is allowed to retreat off map or jump out)
  • Place Terrain features (if used like planets, moons, asteroids)
  • Place ships.
• Diceless combat system
  • Combat is resolved in order of effective Sensor Ratings.
  • Each ship fires only one weapon system, then damage is resolved
  • Following this, all ships may fire any remaining weapons simultaneously and resolve damage at the end.
  • Rules include Point Defense (against missiles), Close Combat, Weapons Arcs

Contains:

• 28 pp Rules Booklet
• Quick Reference Sheet with Hex map
• 60 adhesive counter overlays (for making counters out of spare change)
• 35 pre designed ships
• Multiple ship record sheets for different hull sizes
• Designed by Greg Porter

This is a new, unused copy, that has spent its life in a warehouse.

BTRC6001 Second Edition June 1996  zip-lock   rules, Quick Reference sheet, Adhesive counter set

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This item would weigh just under 0.50 pounds (0.239 kg) when packaged for shipping.