idea for battleships...

[Treewyrm]

Naming conversions, traditions, overall militaristic style. But that's just common, regardless of the actual media. However, comparing actual combat unit from one era to imaginary combat unit from distant future isn't practical in terms of gameplay mechanics, since the purpose of the whole thing is to make things there balanced, not to make them very realistic, especially considering when there is no realism possible with sci-fi. Plasma cannons? Give me a break. Style is a one thing, balance is a completely different, don't mix the two. Equations, rocks, papers, scissors, chaos, tables of stats, numbers and values.

Bluntpencil2001, Starlancer is a play on cold war period put on sci-fi theme, the difference is mainly that in Starlancer it resulted in actual war.