Hex-style ground battles

So you mean abit like the Ground builder from Galactic Civilizations 3?

Actually, yeah! I was thinking like how Endless Legend looks, though I know that may be crazy to attempt to add since it's essentially a whole game in itself. But maybe something where you are able to zoom into the planet and manually rotate it and plant various things on it like as similar to this from Interplanetary:

Long ago, Steve Jackson Games published a game called O.G.R.E.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre_(game)

The battlesheet was a sheet of paper, printed with terrain, with a hexgrid superimposed.

There were rules for advancing your units, and attacks were performed by rolling a pair of dice.

In terms of ES2, each side would have an indication of what the terrain is.

To give the defenders an advantage, you could let the defending player choose the type of terrain.

Like the spaceship battles, the choice of tactics would affect how portions of your forces would advance across the battlefield.

When the timer runs out, each sides forces will be in control of portions of the map.

If neither side retreats, then fresh troops will arrive on the subsequent turn, though those forces would need to advance from the map edge, to the front line.

For aircraft, I'd suggest that they be more akin to flying mecha (ala Robotech), such that they can quickly fly to where they are needed.

With respect to the rock-paper-scissors mechanics i.e., tanks beat infantry, aircraft beat tanks, infantry beat aircraft, I would suggest that this carries over to how individual unit prioritize their attacks (e.g., a aircraft will try to take out a nearby tank).

Awesome! It's the use of the terrain that I really want, like in the old Battletech boardgame. I really like the ground builder angle, too.

I would really like a geed in-depth tactical combat system! EL is pretty simplistic imo, but it has the right idea. I would go as far to say that having a traditional RPG style combat system where units take turns to use different abilities would be an improvement on the current ground based combat.

Breyos wrote:

I would really like a geed in-depth tactical combat system! EL is pretty simplistic imo, but it has the right idea. I would go as far to say that having a traditional RPG style combat system where units take turns to use different abilities would be an improvement on the current ground based combat.

I agree. While it's nice that they included a new ground battle system, I think it could include the player involvement some more. 

Really, if this game had a more fun fighter combat system, a more enjoyable system of Hero levels and THIS IDEA. The game would win 10/10 on my scale. An interactive hex-style ground combat... Ahhh I'm drooling.

minurominerwin wrote:

An interactive hex-style ground combat... Ahhh I'm drooling.

You and me both :D

This idea is fantastic. It's something I've hoped for but never voiced as it seems too unlikely for Amplitude to greenlight, but I'll definitely upvote it on the off-chance we can actually get something.

At some point (probably galaxy generation), the game would have to create hex minimaps for each colonizeable world in the game. It seems to me that the AI would probably have a hard time figuring out how to fight on these maps unless Amplitude is able to just port over the EL system, and keeping the fighting to automatic but influenced with battle cards seems like the most feasible option.

Anyways, good luck! I really hope this can be a thing.