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After binging The Expanse, loving Battlestar Galactica, etc... the wife and I were thinking of finding a game of that sort. Other than Battlefleet Gothic, are there any supported games that aren't entirely unwieldy or overly complex while still having the whole capital ships, escorts, etc... kind of feel?

We don't love Star Wars Armada, and Firestorm is a dead system, correct? Anything else out there? I feel like Firestorm is close to what we wanted, as it had ideas like boarding parties, etc... but I think when it died it was considered a grossly imbalanced system?

Well that's a tough one. since you want simple. other than BFG the only one that comes to mind is mongooses Babylon 5 system "a call to arms" . it is basically the same system they use for their WWII victory at sea system as well.

Unfortunately unlike B5 wars, which is the best Newtonian based scific space skirmish system IMHO(but also very complex by comparison), that has been converted into star trek, star wars, battlestar galactica, wing commander, stargate, macros/robotech, battlefleet gothic etc..

the "a call to arms" system is only for Babylon 5.

You can get the control sheet and such for it here

http://www.ibisfightclub.tk/

the B5 wars stuff can be found here if you want to look into it.

http://b5warsvault.wikidot.com/

If you want to make something akin to The Expanse, Full Thrust is a good starting rule set - missiles, railguns, and newtonian-style inertial movement.

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