B5 EFSB: Using the EF Sourcebook/Queries/Opinions/Erratta?

On Saturday, December 13, 1997 9:49 AM, Ground Zero Games 
[SMTP:jon@gzero.dungeon.com] wrote:
>POSSIBLY the
> catastrophic damage rule (at least as an option).

The cascading damage rule is a nice rule and one I'd
say should be in the next edition as an option, it
sounds right and certainly has the right feel from the
B5 battles on the screen.

I have a query though, the cacscade roll in the text
says 'greater than' the previous threshold row roll,
but the example is 'equal to' the previous threshold row roll.

so should it be 'greater or equal' or is the example wrong?

On interceptors, these function like the shields in FT, I
don't agree that with them doubled up and only hitting on
a 6 that this 6 does the reroll and double damage. I would
have thought it more realistic if it did the usual 1 damage
point. Basically its saying if any fire gets through the screen,
its always a penetrating hit, it just doesn't make sense, to me.
Chances are if it gets through the screen barage its broken up
and pretty ineffective.

I found the EFSB combat rules very hard to read and not a
patch on the layout in FT/MT.

I think the graphical design was pretty naff. The
metal plate bleed out and background graphics make it really
hard to read. There aren't enough pictures and the tables
are too small and difficult to interpret. There are also too
many forward references (although they do give the page numbers).

As I understood the basic mechanics of the game already I stood a
chance, I think a lot of people will be confused as some of the
rules aren't very clear. Especially the minbari (FT) movement
system, its very very hard to decipher it. FT explained it in
a much better way with a better description and diagrams.

The examples however do help, and are well done.

Also the EF Corvette side view - looks nothing like the silhouette
on the SSD. The side view looks like a cut down Omega, the
SSD a cut down Hyperion, which is it? Also the Side view is covered
with huge guns that look like massive Beam Batteries but its only got
pulse cannons on the SSD. It also has 18 pulse cannons in the text
and only 12 (counting arcs as a cannon) on the SSD.

sincerely
tim jones
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