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[AdmiralZeech]

On the subject of TV space battles, just wanted to mention some anime: Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and Starship Operators.

The first one (a very old anime, but a classic) is a long series full of political intrigue and large scale space fleet battles. I really love this kind of stuff, detailed depictions of strategies and tactics, pitting commander against commander, etc.

The second is a really interesting take on space ship to ship combat (and then throw in a bunch of teenage girls.... ). Rather than using aircraft or naval as a basis, instead this show embraces the idea that space ships can use innovative and unknown technologies and tactics. It becomes a cat and mouse game, "Enemy ship detected! What kind of weapon do they have? How will they attack?"


I mention anime because I don't think these sorts of tropes appear in english-language film/TV very much. English-language media seems to be more action oriented, with amazing feats from a single heroic pilot or captain winning the day, where the fleet is just a backdrop pew-pewing each other uselessly.

Asian fiction & myths historically have a lot more "tactician heroes", which might be why you can get away with anime where a large part of the show is diagrams explaining why Admiral X was incredibly brilliant and did this incredibly innovative formation that totally caught the enemy offguard etc etc.

[Nepty]

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[NapSpan]

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[Hawkei]

I mention anime because I don't think these sorts of tropes appear in english-language film/TV very much. English-language media seems to be more action oriented, with amazing feats from a single heroic pilot or captain winning the day, where the fleet is just a backdrop pew-pewing each other uselessly.

Asian fiction & myths historically have a lot more "tactician heroes", which might be why you can get away with anime where a large part of the show is diagrams explaining why Admiral X was incredibly brilliant and did this incredibly innovative formation that totally caught the enemy offguard etc etc.

That would be because the western ideal of a "hero" includes some measure of self-sacrifice. While western film does have the masterful tactician as a trope. Who can sway the final outcomes with their brilliance. Western film tends to glamorise the achieving of one's ends, for the greater good, through personal sacrifice.

[Spearhead]

Just play Space Engineers )

All Space engineers like games show what SE should've really been like (Empyrion galactic survival, planet nomads, etc..) they arent exactly space engis but they definitly what it shouldve been like if the devs wouldnt focus on graphics which is what mostly ruins the game because no one i know can run SE in a planet with more than 50 fps

[TheKoopa]

Well give them a break, they are only in the beta phase which is mostly bug squashing. Besides the fact I have a $100 gpu and run the game at a nice 60 fps (ofc it gets nice and hot so after a while I have to stop..)