TBP B5 Olympus Class Corvette - Confused...

Hi,

I'm a bit confused about the Olympus - I'm planning to buy a couple of
AoG models, and I assume they are the "wide" ones with the bit sticking out
the side? Not the narrow thing that is featured in the EFSB?

I'm going by the info on Richard Bax's webpage.

TIA

John

"In war one sees his own troubles and not those of the enemy."
 - Napoleon

The EFSB Olympus predates "A Call to Arms" and so they used an existing
design, see pp57 the likely candidate, but the small transport shown on pp86
is closer to the silhoute on the Olympus SCS (which is a good design, in the
forward arc).

I've got some notes on EFSB/FB conversions that will end up at
http://216.101.185.88 later this month. This will only be
intermittently available, since the DSL line I'm on is unreliable. I've seen
Bax' designs, but I have a slightly different approach.

> At 3:00 PM -0700 4/13/99, Mycenius wrote:

Mike,

Thanks for the reply..

> The EFSB Olympus predates "A Call to Arms" and so they used an existing

This is what's confusing - The EFSB Silhouette looks like a "half-size"
Hyperion, and there are no illustrations of such a vessel in the book. The
Silohuette supplied by Richard Bax for the converted B5W Olympus is close to
the pp57 vessel, but not quite, while the EFSB Olympus is supplied, by RB, as
the "Asp" Assault Destroyer.

Anyway, I'm trying to find out what the AoG "Olympus" actually looks like, the
EFSB silohette, or the chunky B5W silouhette? I guessing the later since
it will have been designed for B5Ws to start with - BUT the other
question I was wondering is are AoG the "official" designers (i.e. they have
access to
all the B5 TV/Movie records and stuff) or are they, like the rest of us,
taking best guesses at ship design and stuff?

> I've got some notes on EFSB/FB conversions that will end up at

I'd be interested in seeing that...

Cheers

John

> Anyway, I'm trying to find out what the AoG "Olympus" actually looks

According to AOG, the chunky, brink-like ship that can be seen in
various scenes from "In the Beginning" is the Olympus Corvette. They have
designed the miniature for it and I will admit the pic of it looks quite good.
So in answer to your question, the AOG version of the Olympus and miniature
they designed for it is like the chunky silohette on the AOG control sheet and
as they get everything O.K.ed by WB that makes it the official one.

And from what I have seen of the AOG designs, I think they are making best
guesses from what they have seen in the show and the movies. They only become
official once WB have put their stamp of approval on it.

> Anyway, I'm trying to find out what the AoG "Olympus" actually looks
So
> in answer to your question, the AOG version of the Olympus and

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!). 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..... :-/