Re: Earthforce Sourcebook is in!

Wow!, Thanks for all the reply's. On a side note I was just given the
interactive B5 CD-ROM from Sierra. The audio CD that came with it is
great.
The interactive CD has specs and video for 30 ships (if you count a jump
gate as one). For the unofficial rules type this is a greate resource.
Other
then those two high points, the interactive CD is pretty bad. I'm glade
I
didn't pay for it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Murray <smurray@aecom.yu.edu>
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
Date: Thursday, December 04, 1997 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Earthforce Sourcebook is in!

>>> Ok, time to play catch-up for the new guy on the list. Correct me if
I
am
>>> wrong, but I assume the Source book is for Babylon % Wars???.
>>
>>No.  Its a supplement for the Chameleon Eclectic game "The Babylon
>>project".  Essentially it should be for roleplaying but Jon Tuffley
>>was contacted (probably not the right word) to create a ship combat
>>system for the game that would work in the B5 universe.  Thats why
>>must of us on the list want a copy of it.  Frnakly the roleplaying
>>game isn't up to much otherwise.  At least from what i've seen and
>>heard of it.	The system (I hope) should follow Jons basic style of
>>Keeping it simple and not going the B5 wars way of things (psuedo SFB
>>in my opinion).
>
>I've played a couple of games of it and I can say I'm not too
overwhelmed
>by it.  It seems you have to do an awful lot of damage to functionally
>disable ships, and fighters seems very unbalanced vs ships.  I think
I'll
>probably end up using it for small ship/fighter combat (the fighter
minis
>are quite nice) as i'm not wild about thier resolution of ship to ship
>combat.
>
>>
>>> Also what is this about a FT/B5 rule set for sale. Whos ship do you
have
to
>>> blowup to get a set, and who much. After all the trip from Calif. to
GenCon
>>> ain't in the budget.
>>
>>Same here unfortunately.  I presume Chameleon Eclectic could sort you
>>out on that one.
>
>Give them a call on 800-435-9930, give them your credit card no. and
hey
>presto you can go to the ball, oops wrong story.  Seriously, I ordered
>directly from CE since my local stores are (an understatement) a bit
bad.
>Miniature gaming won't work in NY they tell me, apparently no one has
the
>space, except for GW stuff which they are more than happy to sell me !
>
>Good hunting
>
>Stuart.
>
>
>Stuart Murray
>
>Department Of Molecular Genetics
>Albert Einstein College Of Medicine
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>
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>
>