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RE: Babylon 5 Wars (LONG)

From: Paul Calvi <tanker@r...>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:37:14 -0500
Subject: RE: Babylon 5 Wars (LONG)

As far as the minis go I thought the game had two scales, one for
tactical fighter combat and one for cap ship combat,; thus the different
figure scales. Is this true?

Paul

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From:	Allan Goodall[SMTP:agoodall@sympatico.ca]
Sent:	Saturday, March 15, 1997 8:09 AM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Babylon 5 Wars (LONG)

At 09:07 AM 3/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 14, 1997 at 11:58:49 AM, "Phillip E. Pournelle" wrote:
>
>I was one of the playtesters for the game.  My game group played it
about ten 
>times total, and filed a 20-page playtest report for each of the two
rounds of 
>playtesting.  The consensus of opinion was that there were some serious

>problems with it (detailed below), and that the more we played it, the
less we 
>liked it.

Thanks for the review, Chris. I don't think this is off topic
because--like
many on this list--I'll have to make a decision: spend money on Babylon
5
Wars, or just buy their figures and use Full Thrust. My biggest fear for
B5W
was that it would be the B5 version of SFB. It sounds like it isn't but
that
it has the potential to go that route. Looks like I'll wait for Jon
Tuffley's B5 rules instead.

Anyone else have a review? Anyone know anything about the lead figures?
I've
heard rumours about strange scale discrepancies between the fighters and
the
other ships. To be honest, the first thing I thought when I heard about
B5W
was "great, B5 figures for Full Thrust"...

Allan Goodall:	agoodall@sympatico.ca 
"You'll want to hear about my new obsession.
 I'm riding high upon a deep depression. 
 I'm only happy when it rains."    - Garbage

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