I had this idea a while ago but anyway is it possible to maybe be able to board enemy ships in space.

Like, you have to destroy everything but the shield or engine on a ship and then you could board it. If you do succesfully board it then you can take controll of the ship (and use on the galactic map maybe).

Here's an idea of a way to board.

Capital ships can board all ships.

frigates can board other frigates as well as corvettes

corvettes can board other corvettes and transports

and transports can board corvettes.

If it's impossible then I'm sorry for wasting your time

I know of two mods that had boarding of space stations, but not of ships. One was the Legacy mod I think, and apparently alpha99 had one in her/his supposed mod. You'd have to ask commander bacarra since he was the only one with access to it. But that's another matter entirely....and we won't be seeing that mod at all.


Maybe boarding could depend on a space station's health? I.e., A capital ship could board a space station only at 2/3 health, a destroyer at 1/2 health, a frigate at 1/3 health, and a transport at less. Anything else would be too small (the only reason transports can is because their large troops compliment).

As for ships, there would have to be some sort of defense to make boarding difficult. Otherwise, winning space battles would be incredibly easy and you could pass the command limit too easily. But it would be a great idea.

I can think of a number of games that have successfully implemented boarding actions.... i don't think that the star wars universe is the best medium for boarding actions... maybe a rebel tactic... hmm wait couldn't it be accomplished by somehow just using Like some sort of IG88 ability? or Chewbacca hijack thingy? (seems like way too much work to me)

Well, essentially, you could just frankenstein the chewbacca overtake code into a starship. Seems ridiculously simple to me.

True, but what he's suggesting is a sophisticated and fun boarding system. More than just "click a button and the ship is magically your's" like Chewbacca does. The only reason I'd think it possible would be commander bacara's comments regarding testing alpha99's mod. Now, I know that won't be released or hosted here or endorsed due to what happened, but if he was telling the truth, that means boarding is possible. Apparently another mod incorporated it as well (Legacy, I think).

I sincerely hope that Commander Bacara kept Alpha99's work on the mod, even if some of it wasn't legitamate, there was some definate promise in it.

WOW i didnt think my topic would get so many posts in such a short time

but thx i like the ability to board space stations but being able to just press a button and have a ship is almost no fun at all thx though

also could i get links to those mods you mentioned(if they're out yet)

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If my topic gets 6 or more replys within a week then thats alot to me (maybe it's cause im a noob at this...) thx for welcoming me also

Also any suggestions on my little idea (i guess it's not so little to the developers)

Well, I personally think a complex ship boarding procedure like this sounds really fun. Maybe a specific hero for each side specifically for this reason, like Tyber does in the end of FoC...or a ship class like a boarding shuttle for every faction that you have to build on a certain planet, or with a specific facility, specially designed for this purpose.

I'm thinking maybe an un- or poorly-armed shuttle that you send to a frigate or larger ship once you destroy it's weapon hardpoints or hit it with an ion cannon, and you take control of it...if it survives until the end of the battle, you can keep it for use on the galactic conquest map (doing so would be difficult because it would only have a fifth- to a sixth- of it's health to finish the rest of the battle, unless you used the ion cannon option, but it would take a lot of bombers or a planetary superweapon for that). I was going to add the possibility of building this ship from your own space stations (with prerequisites, of course) after taking it over, since your engineers could analyze it after the battle, but the space unit queues are already pretty crowded in most mods, that might not be the best of ideas.

Ya thats what i was thinking

maybe a ship could have a disable ability where it only shoots ion cannons at a targeted ship until it's disabled and then it could protect it once it's captured

nice idea thx

This idea reminds me of Conquest : Frontier Wars - a greater game than EaW could ever dream to be. Even RaW cannot outmatch this old classic lol.
Anyway, in this game you are able to board ships and stations with small ships called infiltrators and then you take control of them. It's like the last mission of Underworld campaign, when Tiber Zann uses a pirate boarding shuttle to temporarily take control of the Eclipse. Cool idea. I hope Z is wise enough to catch up on this.

it's a good idea