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Vanguard Spaceships is a complete set of rules for designing spaceships and running spaceship combat in the Vanguard universe. It was written to be used with Vanguard Free Roleplaying (VFR), but it works as a stand-alone game, too.
As a game of hard science fiction, Vanguard Spaceships includes speculative but plausible technology. Spaceships are propelled with reaction drives, not inertialess drives. If crews need simulated gravity then they spin the ship or accelerate hard; they don't have gravity generators. To destroy an enemy, they fire lasers, missiles, or kinetic-energy projectiles. To survive combat, they usually must avoid being hit, since there are no shields. This is not a prediction of what the future will hold, but it is a representation of something that is a possibility.
Vanguard Spaceships contains:
Overviews of spaceship and weapons technology
Detailed rules for designing all kinds of ships, from cargo barges to fighting vessels
Tips on combat tactics in deep space
Combat rules
Click here to download Vanguard Spaceships now. (PDF file = 270KB)
(The Vanguard spaceships file is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You'll need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don't have it. Click here to get the free reader from Adobe's web site.)
Click here for an Excel spreadsheet ship design aid by Phil Mackenzie, and click here for one by William Miller.
Click here for a spaceship image by
Michael McDermott.
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