Re: EFSB

Drew M Losos wrote:
> 
> I'm going to have to throw in my piece here.
> 
> I began playing wargames with SFB when I was about fourteen.	I played
for
> about two years until I realised how much dough I'd dumped on the game
so
> far, and how many rules upon rules were piling up.  Got out of it. 
Had
> some brief affairs with land combat games, like 40K (Urgh!) before I
> discovered FT and SG and DS.	Now, I have owned B5W at one time.  I
only
> had to glimpse at the rules, the SSD-style ship sheets, and the
Megahex
> copy maps to know what system had influenced AoG in the making. 
Needless
> to say, I unloaded that game like a hot potato.  I then picked up the
> EFSB.  This is exactly what I wanted.  An easy, realistic, quick,
> satisfying game, fully compatible with FT and one of my favourite
> background settings: B5.  You can bet that I'll buy the B5W minis,
though,
> as I think someone else has already mentioned. . .

	Speaking for myself, I'm not yet willing to drop B5W just yet. 
I admit
there are quite a few areas that need fixing, and these can be repaired
in later editions.  I too like simplicity in games.  However, I don't
think that B5W can even be compared in complexity with SFB.  I have
found the turns to be much faster, the rules to be much easier (though
not as simple as FT).
	The areas of B5Ws that I don't like are the ham-handed vector
movement
system.  Nice try boys, but you can do soooo much better.  That, and I
think that the weapons are a little enemic.  They can cripple, but not
destroy like they do on the show.

Later,
Mark S.