Re: New Conversion of Babylon 5 for FT (clean stamp)

For all of you looking for B5 info, check out

"Babtech on the Web"

http://www.babtech.com/ I think,

The author works out ship sizes and weapon capabilities - purely from
what is seen in the show (now _thats_ dedication :-).

well it id (sorry, got cold) definately linked-to from

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/links.cfm

As well as lots more useful stuff!

Charles
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 20:16:52 +0100 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (Ranitzsch,
Karl Heinz) writes:
<snip>
>A Gepard is the ultra-fast African/Asian 'hunting leopard' spotted 
>cat. I
>believe it is called the same in English.
>
>Greetings
>and Merry Christmas
>Karl Heinz
>

This a leopard and not a cheetah?  I'm surprised by the term ultra fast
in relation to leopards because what does that leave to describe
cheetah's speed?  Although Leopards *are* extremely _quick_ and
powerful.
 And Cheetahs are not, IIRC Asian but African Veldt dwellers.  Just
curious about clarifying the creature under discussion.

Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:24:33 -0500 "Chris DeBoe"
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writes:
>From: "Glenn M Wilson" <triphibious@juno.com>
>
>> Can a space force be viable if it only uses the weapons systems from 
>Full
>> Thrust (I have 2nd edition)?
>
>"Viable" in what sense?  If you're only using it for your own group 
>then you
>can use anything you like.  If you want it to be compatible with what 
>most
>of the Listers are using ("what I think they're using"), then you 
>should get
>Fleet Book 1.	FB2 tweaks a couple of things (the vector movement 
>system
>being most important, IMO) but you can get by without it.  MT 
>describes some
>of the genre weapons and, more importantly, the details of the various
>fighter types, but again, you can live without it.
>

"Genre weapons"?  Is this like the Salvo missiles thing or something
more
exotic?

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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:32:14 -0800, Ndege Diamond <nezach@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>Hmmm, lets see. For weapons I seem to remember in one of the books a
>Culture ship mentions that ship effectors have ranges in light years
and
>can slag planets. AM and nanohole cluster munitions are also mentioned.
>Paraphrasing from Excession "The average General Contact Unit is more
than
>a match for the vast majority of of alien craft it will come across
during
>it's career".

Well, the neat thing about FT is that it really DOESN'T have a scale.
Jon very
particularly did not include one. I got thinking about the
multi-kilometre
long Culture vessels and thought that you could actually do a game where
a
whole solar system DOES fit on one table. Technically 1 MU in FT could
be a
light year if you wanted it to be. Assume a weapon working over 6 light
years,
maximum range. It COULD be thought of as a beam weapon over 36" with 1"
equal
to 1/6 a light year. As long as weapon effects are in about the same
PROPORTION to possible distances moved, it should be feasible.

I seem to remember, though, that the Idirans fought at a different
"scale" at
the beginning of "Consider Phlebas". I thought they might be feasible. 

Still, it would be interesting to see if the game could be stretched in
order
to handle the Culture...

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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>
> A Gepard is the ultra-fast African/Asian 'hunting leopard' spotted
cat. I
> believe it is called the same in English.

"cheetah", I expect?