Babylon 5 Wars - Gotcha!

> jfleisher@cas.org wrote:
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> (6) map sheets (black & white, 1.25" hexes, if you ever played

No I haven't. Why 6 sheets??? Is it just to make 1 big map? I have geo-
hex's 'silent death' hex star mat.... does that mean I can toss the 6 sheets??

Well, I picked up the boxed set at Origins this weekend, so far I've barely
perused the rulebook. If anyone wants the nitty gritty details, let me know.
John Fleisher
CAS - PC Team

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Would certainly be interested.

> From: jfleisher@cas.org

Regards.......

Sure!!

> Well, I picked up the boxed set at Origins this

Yeah, I was there, too, and got a copy. Wikan's counters look quite nice.
However, they missed crediting the Baltimore Battlegroup for their playtesting
efforts (the AOG guys said they would correct this in the upcoming
supplement), as well
as mis-attributing the PBeM efforts (but we talked about that,
too, Jim ;-). The graphics throughout the book, imo, look
extremely better than those in the B5 Role-playing game. I
didn't have any further time this weekend to do an in-depth
study of the rules (too busy running FT/DS2 events, and trying
to play other games  ;-)

Mk

Okay,

The game looks pretty professional, the cover art is very nice, and the manual
cover repeats the box art. (Basically, it's 3 Earthforce Omegas, rendered from
SGI files obtained from the source.) Everything is glossy (box, manual, ship
counters). AOG said they are shipping to distributors today. Of course, the
web site says nothing about any of this.

Box contents:

(1) Manual (1) 20 sided die (grey) (1) six sided die (grey) (1) black & white
marker counter sheet (120)
(2)     color countersheets (sheet 1- fighters, sheet 2- capital ships)
(190)
(6) map sheets (black & white, 1.25" hexes, if you ever played Starfire or
Star Fleet Battles you'll recognize them) (3) Earthforce Starfury fighter
miniatures (3) Minbari Nial fighter miniatures (3) Narn Frazi fighter
miniatures (3) Centauri Sentri fighter miniatures (12) plastic stands

I've already seen several typos, and I expect I'll find more, but it looks
like a pretty good effort. The ship diagrams (SSD's?) are perforated so you
can remove them from the back of the rulebook fairly easily.

I paid $45.00 & tax (about $47.50), The minis alone are worth about $28
retail, so $17 or $18 for the rules isn't too bad. Of course we still have the
whole expansion thing to go through.

If you have any specific questions, let me know.

PS. I also saw several prototype miniatures at Origins, the Omega, the big
Centauri battleship, and the Hyperion. They all looked pretty good.

> PS. I also saw several prototype miniatures at Origins, the Omega,

You neglected to point out for the readers that the Omega has a real
rotating section...  ;-)

Oops, I forgot about that:-) The only trick is finding AAAAAAAA
batteries to power the thing.

> PS. I also saw several prototype miniatures at Origins, the Omega, the

You neglected to point out for the readers that the Omega has a real
rotating section...  ;-)

Mk

> At 11:44 AM 7/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
I picked up my set from DragonCon last month, but I confess I've been too busy
to really look at it in much detail. The release I got came without minis, but
since the minis were only fighters, I figured I could do
without.   On paper, the ships look pretty huge, kinda reminicent of SFB
SSDs, but from what I've seen of the rules, there are a lot more nifty tricks
you can do with them. I was a little dissappointed that the B5 station wasn't
written up, however. Anyone else had a chance to look
at/play the game?

Take care,