Re: B5 Wars Info...

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 CNCALD@ccmail.monsanto.com wrote:

> 
> Yes, but I wonder how like FT this is really going to be.  Did you see
the
> critical hit chart for the starfury?	Having to keep track of each
individual
> fighter's damage doesn't sound too appealing.  (OK, PDAF scores a hit
against
> Starfury #24; just a sec while I find that sheet.)

	It all depends on what you want.  If you want a detailed system 
of space combat then B5 Wars may be your system.  If you want something
a 
little more abstract then sitck to Full Thrust.  As for me, I can swing 
both ways.
 
> This makes me worry about the miniatures as well; I can't see them
being in FT
> scale with fighters like that.  The fact that they are selling them 2
to a
> package would seem to bear that out.

	I don't know....put a six sider next to fighter and TA-DA....a 
Full Thrust fighter group.  Where is it written that an FT fighter
groups 
had to be teny tiny models mounted in groups of six.  The "full-fledged"
ship 
minis are already supposed to be in an exagerated scale.  Again, It all 
depends on what YOU want.  Besides you can always use the fighter minis 
for Silent Death

> The news of the public test is good, though.	Perhaps we can flood
them with
> suggestions to make the minis FT sized and thereby gain a new line of
ship
> models.

	Must every space wargame build itself around the idea that it 
will be converted to Full Thrust?  AoG has its own ideas about how to 
make a wargame.  If you don't like the system then you can exercise 
your right as a consumer in a Free Market economy and not purchase it. 
(This isn't the ESU, you know.)
	I too look forward to the B5 minis, especially the EA minis.  I 
tried to scratch build a Omega Class Destroyer out of wooden dowls, card

board and other odds and ends;	it look like crap (although the all wood

hyperion class CA I made didn't look too bad).	I plan on buying the 
minis for FT, then splerge and by B5 Wars when it comes out.

Later, 
Mark A. Siefert
	
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