Talon

TALON

Talon is a tactical game of space fleet combat between the Terran Confederation and the invading Talonthincanthanadu (Talon) Empire. The game accurately captures the feel of science fiction space combat as seen in the major sci-fi franchises, but it does so very simply. The play test rules, including all the advanced rules, are only 8 pages long.

This is a game of fleet combat. Battles with individual ships can be fought, but the game has been designed to be able to easily handle combat with fleets of 3-10 ships. The ships in the game, for the most part, are large ships that have shields, have to charge systems, and maneuver – not just do an Immelman.

Each ship class has a specific “Power Curve”. All of the energy use for basic systems for the ship are already baked into the Power Curve. This power can be spent as it becomes available throughout a turn to do things like: charge a weapon faster than normal, reinforce a shield, turn the ship faster than normal, etc. depending on the needs of the situation.

Perhaps the most innovative part of the game are the counters, which are hexagonal shaped, laminated, and very large (the hexes in the game are roughly the size of a hex in Space Empires). The largeness of the counter allows all of a ship´s systems to be displayed right on the map and the lamination allows the player to mark damage right on the counter with a dry erase marker.