Looking for a ruleset that features Carriers

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**malfred**

Either sci-fi or historical where the Carrier is the focus of the game.

**Ozymandias**

They are not necessarily the focus but Battlefleet Gothic has carriers.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

**grey_death**

It'd be interesting to see if someone has come up with an AI rules set for carriers in the game.

Would make for a hell of a scenario game at the very least.

Not that I've played AI...

**syr8766**

What about victory at sea?

**Balance**

A Call to Arms has carriers, but they're not necessarily the focus. Not bad rules, but they had some trouble (in my opinion) getting certain things right... Specifically the role of fighters in the game and dealing with demands to make the lists show-accurate (First ones kill everyone) or playable.

**malfred**

Interesting.

Or maybe a conversion of Starmada (which I found by looking up reviews of
Victory at Sea).

**Janthkin**

Babylon 5 has decent carrier/attack craft rules (not dissimilar from BFG, but deeper).

**Strangelooper**

I was looking for a decent set of rules to replace the lame Starship Battles (Star Wars collectible prepainted miniature fleets) rules, and I came across this interesting version of the Full Thrust rules:

http://webpages.charter.net/dervel/Full%20Thrust%20Star%20Wars.pdf

Basically they took Full Thrust (which tries to balance Star-Trek style torpedo ships vs Star Wars style carriers) and rebalanced it to make carriers more attactive. They just removed the point and weight cost for Fighter Bays (you still pay points for the Fighters, just not for the empty bays).

And a few more simplifications too, but that was the gist.

Also check out http://www.star-ranger.com/CurrentGames.htm

**Kilkrazy**

Any fleet scale WW2 naval rules, such as General Quarters, has to cover carriers.