EFSB missiles

> This is for Jon
 Add
> those to the missiles on orbiting defence platforms and we have a gap

> This is for Jon
  Add
> those to the missiles on orbiting defence platforms and we have a gap

Well, for the EA defence platform missiles you will probably be able to use
the Salvo Missile Launcher rules that will be published very soon as part of
the FT Fleet Book (due to roll off the presses late April). As to the Minbari
missiles, I can't really suggest anything as I don't know how they
are supposed to operate - we've never seen them on screen AFAIK (unless
they are in Season 5, which us Brits haven't had yet...).

Real TINY spoiler for Season 5....if you want to call it a spoiler, that is!

la la la la la

la!

> Well, for the EA defence platform missiles you will probably be able to

No Minbari ships (White Stars are excluded) have fired any weapons in Season 5
thus far. Much less any missiles.

Mk

s p o i l e r

s p a c e

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:51:38 -0500 (EST), "When the long night comes,
> return to the end of the beginning" <KOCHTE@stsci.edu> wrote:

> No Minbari ships (White Stars are excluded) have fired any weapons in

Just to stray off topic a little, it's been a rather bland season so far.
Looks like JMS fired off most of his ammunition in season 4. Unfortunately,
all that this season has REALLY shown so far is that JMS really can't write
dialogue...

On an FT topic, does anyone know the class of the large ship accompanying the
Hyperions in the B5 movie? I've got an idea for a "first contact" scenario...

Oh, and for the Torontonians in the audience, coming up this weekend
or the one following CITY-TV will run the first B5 movie. CFMT is
running the second B5 movie next month.

> s

Are these the ones that look sort of like the Omegas without a rotating
section, but with HUGE cannons on them? If they are, then those are the
Nova-class Dreadnoughts from the EFSB.  A First-Contact scenario.  Hmm.
I'd like to see that.

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:49:08 GMT agoodall@sympatico.ca (Allan Goodall) writes:
> s
And for good season. Remember, he had to finish of the Shadow War arc because
he didn't know if there was going to be a season 5. And Claudia Christian
taking a walk didn't help things any.

Last weeks' episode (the one about the dead), though, seems to indicate he's
getting back on track. Or so I've heard (I was so beat from work, I slept
through it. Curses!)
> [quoted text omitted]

Kelvin spake thusly upon matters weighty:

> Are these the ones that look sort of like the Omegas without a
Hmm.
> I'd like to see that.

As in ....

"Gunner, is the Omega Bolter aligned on the Strange Alien Vessel?" "Aye,
Cap'n. Locked on and Ready to Discharge!" "Close Number One Firing Relay...."
"First...Contact!"

Heh heh.

> -----Original Message-----
Hmm.
> I'd like to see that.

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> On an FT topic, does anyone know the class of the large ship

If you mean the ships that look like Omega sans the rotating section, then
you've got a Nova Class Dreadnought. If you are talking about the smaller,
boxy, ship seen fighting a bunch of minbari ships druing Londo's narrative of
the war, then I believe that was an Olympus Class Corvette.

(I'll try to bring this back on topic...no, really...)

> s

> =

Also, to be fair, while I agree the first half dozen eps have been very quiet,
remember that the first 8 eps of season 2 were pretty much sleepers (well,
they were for me at the time!), a number of early season 1 eps were
very low-key, as well as half of the first half of season 3 eps.

> Last weeks' episode (the one about the dead), though, seems to indicate

Heh. But JMS didn't write that one.  ;-)

Now, to drag this thing kicking and screaming back on-topic, I was
thinking that a while back when Scott Field was on the list he ran a PBeM game
which
used a system he called a 'mini-missile'. Basically it was a half-sized
MT Missile (Mass 1, did 1d6 damage, 2 turns endurance). Would something like
that be feasible for giving the Minbari missiles, or should it just not be
worried about and let them be for what it are? I'm up for leaving them be,
letting them have their little wimpy HBWs (well, 'little wimpy' compared to,
oh, say, a Vorlon or Shadow HBW:)

Mk

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 23:56:43 -0600, "Mark A. Siefert."
> <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> If you mean the ships that look like Omega sans the rotating

Thanks, guys. It was the Nova Class Dreadnought that I meant. I don't have a
model quite big enough to represent it, but I have some old Valiant ships that
might make a good approximation. The only question is whether a couple of
Hyperions and a Nova against a Shaolin would make an interesting scenario.
Maybe I could include reinforcements jumping in just as things REALLY start to
get hot, kind of a First
Contact what-if. Hmmm.....

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:13:09 -0500, carlparl@juno.com (Carl J
> Parlagreco) wrote:

> s

I realized what the problem was. Personally, I think he should have ended it
with 4 seasons if he was backed into getting rid of the good
stuff too early. Then again, I also think that the X-Files should end
this season instead of continuing for 2 more seasons. I have memories of the
mediocre and generally awful sixth season and seventh season (respectively) of
Star Trek: The Next Generation.

> Last weeks' episode (the one about the dead), though, seems to indicate

That wasn't the one we saw. In Canada we're at least a couple of episodes
behind you. In fact, we've got one more episode and then we're going to be on
hiatus for most of April, with "The Gathering" as the only thing to keep us
going.

> If you mean the ships that look like Omega sans the rotating

What about the NSL superdreadnought-whose-class-name-I-can't-remember?
I was using it as a substitute Omega, but now that the Omegas are out (and
once I get some put together; thanks for all the posts on doing
*that*!) mine will get reassigned to Nova-class ship substitutions.

> The only question

Maybe as an exercise in seeing how many turns the Hyperions and Nova survive.
I ran a scenario which pitted 1 Sharlin against 3 Vorchans and a Primus. Wiped
the board with them the Sharlin did. Never suffered a threshold check. The
Primus went up in 1 shot (partially to failed catastrophic damage rolls). Now,
granted, we all agreed that the Vorchans were vastly underpowered for what
we've seen them do, but still...

Mk