EFSB

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:

>If you've seen "In the Beginning", some of the battle sequences in
>there should give you an idea of just how dangerous Minbari fighters
>actually are. Ask Earthforce regulars who survived the Battle of the
>Line how nasty they are!  (seriously, their point value may be off
>(on the low side) but they should be dangerous if the flavour of the
>show is to be preserved).

Actually, I think this makes a good point. Point value is not really for
"balancing battles" - in real life, if the enemy has a force as capable
as yours, you're both likely to try to avoid conflict if you can.
Rather, it's useful afterwards for judging the skill involved. If your
1,600-point fleet vaporised my Strikeboat, that's not much credit to
your skill - but if I managed to take out one of your escorts first,
that's a lot of credit to me...

The applicability to this situation, I think, is that the Minmari should
have point values in keeping with their strength; but when setting up a
scenario, "equal points value" is not the way to do it.

Roger

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