Generic Space Combat 2
The Next Generation of Starship Combat

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GSCII allows players to design their own ships, from the tiniest star fighter to the largest dreadnought. You can play games as small as a couple of gunboats to as large as massive fleets of capital ships. You get to use all of the cool special systems and attacks from the TV and movies - like ion beams, singularity missiles, transporters for boarding actions, tractor beams, cloaks, tunneling drives, scanners, assault pods, and mines - that the other games leave out.

Much is still to be added, and some further revisions and rules tweaking will continue to made for as long as people keep suggesting ideas.

GSCII fleets have been folded into Xenocide's universe, but it will remain flexible for anyone's desired background.

11/10/03 A page of potential Rules Changes has been added! Check them out, playtest them, give your feedback!

8/6/00 - All fleets have been refitted, and larger ships have had their hull damage enhanced based on size. This change is also reflected in the hull buying section of the ship building section.
                            7/31/00 - Updated 2 more fleets. There may be 1 more change to the rules - the hull damage to larger ships may be increased  -the will be an easily changed value though.
                            6/2/00 - Added the Planetary Bombardment scenario
                            Updated the rules - changed pricing on weapons, and beam weapon ranges. Decreased weapon strengths and ships hull damage, and armor and shields. Basically, reduced the math load significantly. Raishek and Terradyne Ships have been updated. Others are undergoing refitting still.
                            Added a reference sheet, finally:)
                            4/2/00 - Updated the R'Tek fleet into the Raishek Fleet
                            Fixed 2 artifacts from GSC 1 concerning movement descriptions
                            Added a bit more description to the System Chart allocation in the ship building rules.
                            1/11/00 - the Thraka Fleet was added
                            1/23/00 - Fixed the carrier bay size issue; a carrier bay holds 1/2 of a size of ship per Level. So a level 12 bay can carry 12 size 1/2 ships, 6 size 1 ships, 3 size 2 ships, etc.
                            The Delari Missile frigate should have an aspect of 3 and a turn of 4". this is now corrected on its record sheet.

All of the following are MSWord documents. HTML or  Adobe formatted pages will soon follow.

GSCII Main Rules
GSCII Ship Building + Ship Building Sheets for Small, Large and Huge Ships
Play Summary Sheet
Insterspatial Drive Rules - for getting into and out of battle

Mine Rules - New and nasty ways of hurting the enemy. Under construction and revision.

GSCII Potential Rules Changes
 

NEW!! Fleet Reference Sheet
Bionid - Background - Biometallic organisms from the ultimate genetic engineers.
Terradyne - Fair number of Police/security ships, with some heavy hitters when push comes to shove.
Raishek - Heavily armored and shielded ships but with slow drives.
Thraka - A race of brutal scavengers, with mainly Ionic Weapons
Delari - Fast, hard to hit ships with advanced weapons
Planetary Defense Systems
Blank Fleet List

The Empire

The Rebellion

Scenarios -
    Planetary Bombardment (6/2/00)

Ship Building Sheets
    Huge
    Large
    Small - Medium

Blank Ship Record Sheets
    Large
    Medium
    Small