A, AA, BREW, ...

A couple of friedns and I ended up playing B5-FT with a couple of 
Narn cruisers against a couple of Centari cruisers, with victory 
going, naturally, to the Centauri. We had, as we put it, a "good
hair day".

Anyway, we looked over a couple of the B5 adaptations of FT and 
noticed the bigger than normal weaponry and the bigger than normal
ships, and wondered at the reason to scale both, rather than leave
the ships in a more standard FT-size realm, and the weapons likewise.

We found it more satisfactory to use A as the absolute maximum that 
the more primitive cultures (Narn, Human, Cantauri) could muster, 
with perhaps the Mimbari having AA batteries. So why then the BREW,
BGEW, Heavy Beam, etc.? If the ships were not scaled to almost double 
the FT sizes, the weaponry would't need upgrading. 

Is there something we're missing?

BTW: I would have rathered played a Narn, but you've gotta admit that
the pooftah Centauri can be fun - if reprehensible.

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