B5 BREWs update. (inc spoilers)

Date sent:  22-AUG-1996 13:03:44

> I always class the White Star as a Destroyer, but despite it's small

> I believe it has been mentioned that the White Star uses the same

It did say they used vorlon tech defence. It did NOT say that they
didn't use Minbari. 8-) Besides, there are only so many defensive
systems, so I can't make all the techs different. The WS is the only ship that
uses all three (Interceptors, Screens and Armour).

(BTW The improved armour represents the Vorlon 'learning' skin)

> By the

I'm planing on using the 'realistic movement rules' as published on the Web by
Mike Elliot and JT. With these rules, provided the WS can flip, it should be
able to break pretty sharpish, using it's main drive to decelerate.

> Vorlons and Shadows BYEW and RBREW (Big Yellow Energy Weapon and

> All Vorlon ships have class 2 armour as standard. All Shadow

> It's even worse than that I'm afraid. As far as it goes, it appears

Sorry, I always play it that way anyway with ST ships, so I forgot to note
about that. You are correct. The energy drain however is quite sevear, so they
won't be doing it too often.

> All B*EW require one firecon per target which may not be shared by

> Actually, I think you were right the first time. I don't think you

But dropping the interceptor screen would be BAD. Perhaps this penalty would
be in order to prevent people firing as soon as the beam is charged. Only use
it for the killing blow so to speak (And when you know the other guy won't be
firing at you.) The races that don't use interceptors anyway (Minbari, Vorlon,
Shadow) won't have a problem.
(But you will 8-) )

> On 22 Aug 96 at 11:55, Adam Delafield wrote:
I believe it has been mentioned that the White Star uses the same defensive
technology as the Vorlons, not the Minbari. By the stall turn Lennier put it
into last episode, I would say it uses
Kravak monement rules. It don't know if it's that fast - one of the
Shadow ships managed to catch it up pretty quickly.

> Vorlons and Shadows BYEW and RBREW (Big Yellow Energy Weapon and
:-).

> All Vorlon ships have class 2 armour as standard. All Shadow
It's even worse than that I'm afraid. As far as it goes, it appears they don't
have the 'don't know where they are going' problem that cloaks normally give
you.

> All B*EW require one firecon per target which may not be shared by
Actually, I think you were right the first time. I don't think you
can fire your ?B?EW while you are firing anything else - the White
Star and Minbari only ever fire the big gun or the others, never both. Same
with the Earth ships in 'Shattered Dreams' As to the Shadows and Vorlons, well
it seems that's all they bother with anyway..

                       TTFN
                                  Jon