Re: B5 Ship Combat

Hugh Fisher wrote:

>In defence of EA, J Michael Straczynski has said online that
>he envisioned the battles taking place at long ranges, but for
>dramatic purposes only the battle between the Narns and Shadows
>in "The Long, Twilight Struggle" really shows the distances.
>
>Plus the EA ships are described in the B5 Wars book as having
>all the agility of cast-iron bathtubs, and compared to White
>Stars, Minbari, or Shadows, they are. So they probably *are*
>turning in the B5 scenes, it just isn't detectable by human
>eyes in the limited time available :-)
>
I actually have no problem with the way the EA ships move and fight in 
B5.  I really like the show.  I was merely presenting examples to 
disprove O.O.'s assertion that large ships perform a Rotate-MD 
Burn-Rotate-Fire-Rinse & Repeat cycle.

J