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Has anyone seen anything about this game in development?

Official Link:

http://monstersinthesky.com/

Link to excellent article on TGN:

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2009/09/02/29509

It looks very interesting, and I think I'll be picking up the box when it comes out!

Please, oh Please! Don't let this be a resurrection of Crimson Skies.

Hey. I actually miss Crimson Skies. It's silly in a pulp kinda way.

I liked the look of Crimsom Skies, I bought the game and a few planes.

M.

I can already see it now, Dreadnought classes will be overpowered.

As a BFG player with multiple fleets (painted!), this is a nice effort, and very interesting alternative.

It's a Catalyst game - the current makers of BattleTech - so expect the rules to be top-notch. They care about making a good game, not selling flashy new model kits.

And apparently they ditched the pre painted idea. Yay for cool unpainted models.

While this looks quite promising I really hope they include naval units as the battle described in the on-site fiction sounds quite compelling.

I've been interested for a while now, can't wait to see the models and hear some mechanics!

This reminds me of a cartoon "Last exile"

I'd like to know why the leviathans have guns on top. Wouldn't it make more sense to have them under the carapace? So that you'd actually have a chance to shot at the targets below?

ED209 wrote:This reminds me of a cartoon "Last exile"

That's exactly what I thought when I first saw it.

But it's hex based, so I'm not interested.

Here's another vote for actual naval units to be involved too.

Now that would be cool!

His Master's Voice wrote:I'd like to know why the leviathans have guns on top. Wouldn't it make more sense to have them under the carapace? So that you'd actually have a chance to shot at the targets below?

it will be more fun that only one faction got their guns under belly and the other faction only got guns on the top

ED209 wrote:This reminds me of a cartoon "Last exile"

Reminds me a bit of the comic "Red Star" ...

BFG-esque with BTech-level rules has me interested too.

- Salvage

WANT.

That looks terrific.

His Master's Voice wrote:I'd like to know why the leviathans have guns on top. Wouldn't it make more sense to have them under the carapace? So that you'd actually have a chance to shot at the targets below?

Because they are designed as standard wet Navy ships that FLY. The setting is the early 1900's, so that thought probably isn't there yet. Might be a later addition to some ships.

For the introduction to the game, the Leviathan is more a proof of concept than a completely thought out and long-designed project.

H.B.M.C. wrote:It's a Catalyst game - the current makers of BattleTech - so expect the rules to be top-notch. They care about making a good game, not selling flashy new model kits.

As long as Jordan Weisman isn't involved this may actually be good.

Cool looking game to me! I'd atleast buy the boxed set.

Mattlov wrote:
Because they are designed as standard wet Navy ships that FLY. The setting is the early 1900's, so that thought probably isn't there yet. Might be a later addition to some ships.

For the introduction to the game, the Leviathan is more a proof of concept than a completely thought out and long-designed project.

Most big gun turrets are held in place by gravity alone. The mechanism for inverting even a basic gun mount would be incredibly complicated (you would need two sets of hydraulics to control elevation, for example), and heavy. A true, inverted turret would probably be impossible with anything even aesthetically close to turn of the century technology.

Then again, they have flying battleships that appear to be floating on concentrated vapour of suspension-of-beliefia, so the thought process probably didn't get that detailed.


Looks interesting. I'll watch.

Steam-powered airships? Sign me up!

So many tempting things out there lately, will be following this one closely =]

Breotan wrote:As long as Jordan Weisman isn't involved this may actually be good.

Don't worry about that. Jordan Weisman is no where to be found at Catalyst.

This looks pretty cool. Maybe another game to get if I can get anyone local to join in the spending ... er ... gaming !!

This looks great, I really like the Steam-punk feel of it all. I really hope this comes out as a full game, I don't mind about it being hexed as I think it's a bit easier to get good game flow. I've not long tried the old Starfleet Battles game, and hope this moves the theory forwards.

The ship designs they've shown so far look good too

H.B.M.C. wrote:It's a Catalyst game - the current makers of BattleTech - so expect the rules to be top-notch. They care about making a good game, not selling flashy new model kits.

Wait, then why are they making BattleTech?!

Neat idea with the ships though.

Yeah......awesome.
The fact that the minis are not pre painted and the hope that catalyst can turnout a good system makes me very happy.
Never thought I"d be saying this but I feel the urge to listen to some Abney Park

With a crew of drunken pilots
We're the only airship pirates
We're full of hot air and were starting to rise
We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now
-Abney Park - Airship Pirates

Great song
And yeah I still excited to see the models for this game.

Cloudships of Mars, oh yeah.