Recent content by Foxmeister

It's Powers and Principalities, and it was released shortly prior to the B5 licence lapsing. For the most part, it gave a new PL breakdown, some ship fixes, and some new rules. Although you can't buy it from Mongoose anymore, some retailers still have stocks and you can sometims find it on...

I recently purchased Firestorm Armada from Spartan, and whilst I've not played it yet it does seem pretty good. In addition, it should be fairly easy to "translate" ACTA B5 ships into Firestorm. Regards, Dave

It will probably have taken quite a pounding in order to get round the back, and IMHO that 4AD B(a) HLC is a bit more than just a "secondary" ;) Regards, Dave

Still War (Bin'Tak) vs Battle (Marathon). I'd still expect the Bin'Tak to win this engagement more often than not! ;) Whilst the game is going to rely heavily on initiative as both ships have boresight primary weapons, the F arc Mag Gun on the Bin'Tak means the Bin'Tak can happily CBD when it...

Ka'Bin'Tak vs Marathon? Armageddon vs Battle??? Marathon came in close to try an barrage the Tak??? SUICIDE!!! Regards, Dave

I'm just wondering if these two statements aren't contradictory! ;) Regards, Dave

Personally, when it says "any action" here, I always took it to mean "any Special Action". The trouble is that this "rule" is poorly written, as it is an impossibility to fulfill the criteria. In order to open a jump point, you must use the "Initiate Jump Point" SA, but this rule says that you...

I would've thought it was illegal for the Maximus to use "Intensify Defensive Fire", since it starts it's turn in Hyperspace and the only SA that can be declared whilst in Hyperspace is "Initiate Jump Point"? i.e. at the point the Maximus starts it's movement phase, it is still in Hyperspace...

I voted for the G'Lan. I find that the reduced range isn't much of an issue by turn 2, and the Mag gun gives you something to play with if you can't get a boresight. Of course, with the Narn fleet, there's always a better way to spend a battle point than any of the G'Quan variants (a Var'Nic...

"Around here" clearly equates to house rule. I'm talking about the rules as written - house rules are a completely different kettle of fish. See first point. Playing devils advocate here, because as I said before in general I agree in principle with your house rule, but who is to say that...

According to the rules as written, I'm afraid it does in my opinion. It's well known that SL weapons do count for these purposes, because this is one of the major criticisms levelled at the Demos. By extension of that reasoning, a weapon that can't fire because it has been taken out by a...

Who's going to be firing their one shot mass cannon at a target where the shields are still up, or the interceptors haven't been depleted? ;) Regards, Dave

Ok, the heavy bomber has very low damage/crew scores, but on the other hand it has practically every active defence going. First of all, you've got to break Stealth - ok, Stealth 3 is low, but given its speed, it can be at effective Stealth 4 at 22" and then move in to Mass Cannon range...

In order to make more than one turn, you have to have move at least 2" forward in a straight line (1" for Agile craft) between turns before you may turn again. By definition, if you "All Stop and Pivot", you are not allowed to move any distance whatsoever, so you can only make one turn...

There is a slim possibility that I will be in the US at the end of November, but otherwise I will be there. Regards, Dave