Your map idea sounds very much like "GC Tanaab", which had Imperial cruisers, fighters, and other ships like Lambda shuttles and the Falcon fight around a platform armed with scattered laser turrets. The Rebels, to win, had to destroy the Empire's comm dish and board the platform to destroy several parked X-1 TIE Advanced prototypes inside it. The Imperials had to hold the Rebels off until their tickets reached zero.

I had a "Pavolv's House"-ish idea of the same nature. It features a "front line" Rebel platform under siege by the Imperials. The Empire's fighters have achieved total space superiority (all Rebel fighters in the hangar are statics as they'd have been blasted apart if attempting take-off anyhow) and the Imperials are preparing to board the facility and capture it. The facility has many laser turrets to defend itself, and possible mines and gun platforms around it. Entrances are one hangar, several docking platforms/landing pads (on the "arm" seen in the screenshot), as well as several air locks spread throughout the structure.

The Imperials have Stromtrooper Transports or Assault Transports for boarding the station (either through the hangar or the docking platforms) and TIE Bombers or some other attack light ship for suppressing the turrets. It's up to them to plan an attack strategy, either spreading out and hitting the air locks or landing pads, or concentrating their attacks on one spot such as the main hangar. The interior engagements play out like "GC ISD Judicator" battles for several control points throughout the station.

Maybe the control points could have different functions, such as one or two being armouries and the source of special pick-up kits not found in your spawn inventory, another being some sort of power generator from where the occupying force could shut down or active power to the turrets defending the outside of the space station, or to blast doors,  elevators, or other "infrastructure" features, and so on. Could be interesting if it's not overdone. Either way, I'd want a "command centre" to be in one of the tower, which'd cause ticket bleed for the side not controlling it.

Since I base it on "Pavlov's House", I'd like for it to have an air of desperation to it, with the Rebels having to cling on to their platform until reinforcements arrive to drive the Imperials off (which could be the setting of another map - a cruiser-vs-cruiser battle around the station). The challenge would be to give it an air of desperation and challenge without making it unbalanced.

I like your idea, Blank, and I would really like a space station battle of some sort. I'm not sure of it having to be some groundbreaking thing like a fight for a new super-weapon, though, with all due respect. It just gets tiring after a while to be important all the time, if you know what I mean . A bit like how Rogue Squadron overdid by far the "tow-cable-against-walker" tactic used, let me see, once in the entire Civil War.

Oh, and here are more platforms, all from X-Wing Alliance.

I like your idea, Blank, and I would really like a space station battle of some sort. I'm not sure of it having to be some groundbreaking thing like a fight for a new super-weapon, though, with all due respect. It just gets tiring after a while to be important all the time, if you know what I mean . A bit like how Rogue Squadron overdid by far the "tow-cable-against-walker" tactic used, let me see, once in the entire Civil War.

Hmmm, intresting....

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