"Official B5 specifications?" [was: TBP B5 Olympus Class Corvette - Confused...]

Hi all,

>I actually wouldn't read TOO much into the "WB stamp of approval" -
both
>B5W AND the EFSB are "approved" by WB, yet the ship specs are
completely
>different in many cases (they took their best guess, we took ours!).

Right - Let me get things inperspective and say that I'm not some freak
obsessed with having "official" specs all the time... 8-)  But if there
was
a set of supposedly sanctioned ship plans and stuff, I'd be keen to get
them.

>Whether JMS ever sees any of this stuff personally I don't know, but I
>suspect that WB pretty much rubber-stamp this kind of thing, perhaps
>because they don't really understand gaming..... :-/

This is where I was coming from - I would have assumed JMS would of had
draft notes and ideas on the various space fleets and the vessels that
appeared on the show, and I would have thought these would have been
used to
create the initial stuff. Crusade and such would have added a few more,
then
presumably someone, like B5W or TBP would fill in the gaps... But as you
suspect WB probably haven't got a clue anyway!

Anyway our group has a couple of guy's with genuine FT fleets (1 NAC & 1
ESU), me with B5 (EF and Minbari), another B5 guy and about 4 more B5
guy's
who'll get into it once they see a game in progress at our club! We've
messed around with the 2 FT fleets but haven't done the 'crossover'
thing
yet...

Has anyone played FT vs B5 Fleets? We are gonna use the FTFB rules
(obviously) and at present Richard Bax's B5 ship data, although I've
found
some more elsewhere, and of course I'm keen to see Michael Llaneza
versions
too! The FT version in EFSB emphasises fighters (for movement at least),
but
FTFB is other way around - anyone see this as a problem...

Any comments appreciated...

Cheers

John

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