Re: Babylon5 Battles?

Allan wrote:

> > With such a strong link, what are the chances of the B5 game being
>  > nothing but a clone of SFB? Damn high I'd say. (But then again,
>  > the Earthforce Sourcebook variant will probably be nothing more
>  > than a clone of FT 8-)  ).

...and Nial wrote:

>  Oh dear (you get the the idea by now).  Considering that I have tried

>  playing SFB and failed miserably at getting a game up and running in
any 
>  reasonable length of time, this is very bad news.  It had occured to
me 
>  that the Starfury diagram that appeared on the AOG site reminded of
some 
>  game.  Now that we know that its SFBinfluenced  I can see the horror
of it

>  already.  20 pages on the various complexities of how a ship jumps
into 
>  warp (see subsection X3.1214, Ooops not in this supplement!!).  
>  
>  Looks as if the only items of interest will be the ships.

Well, <trying to keep positive> remember if this is designed around a
role-playing game, then you WANT more detail because that's the level
the
charcters are at. You also tend to have only a few ships to worry about
at
one time. It almost sounds like they're going to have very detailed
rules for
role-playing with one or two ships, and then publish the supplement for
fleet
actions with more ships, less detail (ie -- FT).

At least, I hope so....

Scott

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