Re: EFSB new ship comment and old ship question

>If you were to go to a harbor (oh for instance, the Baltimore Inner
>Harbor
:),
>and decided that whatever you see there is what represents the >Real
World,
>you would be sadly off your mark. We see a number of frigates >come
through
>here, some cutters, a destroyer or two - but we don't see cruisers,
>carriers,
>or anything of that ilk. So if you based your sampling of naval ships
>on
just
>what you saw in this one area, you would be *way* off the mark of
>what's
>out there. This is basically how JMS has run his B5 story. We see >some
ships.
>Not all of 'em. But they exist. In some way, shape, or form.

Maybe it just me, but I come from a family of modelers, who live and
breath
scale models (yes mini's are scale models). If you don't have a
prototype
from the "real" world, you don't build the model. Now I recognise that
this
is a false premiss in an SF world like B5, but it how I'm programed. So
given you harbor example above, I wouldn't feel comfortable making
(painting) a ship that I had not seen, or didn't have some fid of photo
of.

>Personally I don't care what anyone else wants to play with, as long
>as
>*they're* happy. If you want to play with *only* the ships you've ever
>seen, then so be it. If you want to play with a more rounded-out fleet,
>then so be it. I decided long ago when I first came up with my own
>rendition
>of B5 rules for FT to expand the fleets to cover ship classes we
>hadn't
>yet seen. No one seemed to complain too much when I ran a few
>scenarios
>using 'em.  :-)

Your point about how people perceive fun is well made. As to needing
more
ships for game balance, (IMHO) its already there with out new ships. My
2
cents worth says that you only would need new ships to play with new
weapons, and new weapons are what is most likely to mess up game
balance.
I'm sure every one loved playing with your B5 rules (I know I thought
they
were pretty good). But that was before the two most recent seasons with
a
wealth of source material.

Scott (who would like to help turn this back on topic) Jaqua