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[Aaron DeChavilier]

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[TheRulesLawyer]

There was a real earthsiege TT game you know, right?

[Aaron DeChavilier]

TheRulesLawyer, on 12 December 2011 - 01:29 PM, said:

There was a real earthsiege TT game you know, right?

NO! wait!?
really!?
enlighten me! i must know

[TheRulesLawyer]

http://boardgamegeek...siege-rebellion

I worked for Dynamix back in the day. Though we didn't have anything to do directly with the TT game.

They had a sealed copy down at my local game store last I checked if you're really interested.

[Aaron DeChavilier]

oh wow!
that's awesome, http://theminiatures.../rebellion.html
looks like a blend of Heavy Gear and 40k rules with some interesting
tweaks. However most of it is spot on with what I cooked up
too bad it's starsiege not earthsiege (lol)
what years did you work for Dynamix?

[TheRulesLawyer]

Aaron DeChavilier, on 13 December 2011 - 06:37 AM, said:

oh wow!
that's awesome, http://theminiatures.../rebellion.html
looks like a blend of Heavy Gear and 40k rules with some interesting
tweaks. However most of it is spot on with what I cooked up
too bad it's starsiege not earthsiege (lol)
what years did you work for Dynamix?

Earthsiege is just the ground combat element in the starsiege universe or at least that's how I understood it. Revisionist history and all that.
I was there 95-99. Of the dozen or so games I worked on there, Tribes is the only one anyone remembers these days.

[Aaron DeChavilier]

TheRulesLawyer, on 13 December 2011 - 08:54 AM, said:

Earthsiege is just the ground combat element in the starsiege universe or at least that's how I understood it. Revisionist history and all that.
I was there 95-99. Of the dozen or so games I worked on there, Tribes is the only one anyone remembers these days.

well I'll have you know I played Earthsiege 2 before MechWarrior 2
that was the bug that bit me for giant robots
and now I'm tracking the tabletop game to buy; much like trying to find a copy of 'The Succession Wars' board game

idle question; did you ever know what happened to the Earthsiege 2 engine source code?

[TheRulesLawyer]

There are two copies for sale on the market at BGG. (the original link I posted) just check that page for the links.

Otherwise, this game store had one last time I looked.
http://www.games-plus.com/

No idea what happened to the source code for earthsiege. However, I know that Jeff Tunnel (past pres and founder of dynamix) took the engine from the starsiege series and is selling an updated version at his new company, garage games.
http://www.garagegam...ducts/torque-3d

[Aaron DeChavilier]

yeah I've tried Torque as it is
but I was intrigued at modding the original
engine or extracting media resources like
models and such for my TT version and a
possible remake <.<
I emailed his google+ account a few weeks
ago with no response
no worries though.

[TheRulesLawyer]

Aaron DeChavilier, on 13 December 2011 - 09:33 AM, said:

yeah I've tried Torque as it is
but I was intrigued at modding the original
engine or extracting media resources like
models and such for my TT version and a
possible remake <.<
I emailed his google+ account a few weeks
ago with no response
no worries though.

He probably doesn't own the rights to that anymore. You'd most likely have to contact Vevendi about using resources.

Check out this.
https://sites.google...site/es2reveng/

[Aaron DeChavilier]

yeah I saw that a while back, the guy doesnt seem to have
gotten very far D:
but thanks for all the info! ^^_
I'll be uploading more stuff for this thread soon enough
cause most of my TT rules line up with the SS:Rebellion
stuff!

[phalanx]

Earthsiege was the Mechgame where i first climbed into the cockpit. without it I might not have never discovered Battletech.

DEATH TO THE CYBRIDS!

[Aaron DeChavilier]

Phalanx, on 14 December 2011 - 12:50 PM, said:

Earthsiege was the Mechgame where i first climbed into the cockpit. without it I might not have never discovered Battletech.

DEATH TO THE CYBRIDS!

hell yeah!
now here's some scenarios you can blast the Tin Cans in!
just find a friend or friends to be those clankers and you're set!

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[TheMagicMan]

Earthsiege 2 was friggin awesome.

[Aaron DeChavilier]

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[Aaron DeChavilier]

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[Vincent Vascaul]

holy crap earthsiege takes me back, I wasnt a huge fan but I bought them anyway cause they had giant robots in them ya know!

[Aaron DeChavilier]

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[Mason Grimm]

Is this actually "Battletech Universe"?

[Aaron DeChavilier]

yeah this is out of hand, apologies