Recent content by Jim?

So many races, so many horrible ships… I understand that some people like looking at these things, but to me it’s a little bit like someone buying an adult magazine filled completely with pictures of *really* large women… I just don’t understand it, but fine if it’s your bag, I suppose. I even...

I'm not saying that Star Trek is a bad setting... just that that the ships are as aesthetically pleasing as John Prescott and would be equally unappealing to collect and paint.

I really hope it's not Trek... I dislike pretty much all of the ship designs, and those that I don't I actually loathe instead. Star Wars would be cool, I suppose... fighters would have to get a serious reworking compared to the B5 ones, especially for the Rebel Alliance, most of their...

Personally, I think the Liati could do with a slight tweak, anyway... it's always been really hard to fight against multiple Liatis with the ISA (which is kind of the point, I suppose) but I really can't see a way to do that with the tweaked Whitestar, to be honest (and I think the change is a...

The addition of any stellar debris or the use of a short ranged fleet makes the Vree fleet nasty to fight. Slap a few torpedo saucers near a dust cloud/asteroid field and they become horrible, able to "pop out" attack with their torps, then retreat to reload. Though the SM of the Xonn only...

But the Nova's guns aren't one shot weapons. Perhaps with a 6 AD beam @ 20, the tubes could go down to 4 AD each, though... or make one of them a 6 AD pulsar mine @ range 20, instead?

I don't think the G'Quan's ever getting fore-arc lasers, but maybe 6AD boresighted at range 20 would be better for the above ship... hmm... E-Mine volley, then close to lasers, then try to get a shot with the front pulse cannon. That'd be fun :-)

In B5 Wars, the G'Quan's main damage dealing weaponry were it's short range pulse arrays (particularly) and beams (secondary), while it's Ion Cannon were a minor annoyance, and it had two e-mine tubes that didn't do much in the scheme of things. It had predominantly focused firepower fore and...

I like both of these, particularly the Heavy Plasma Cruiser. The additional range and AP/DD guns would make it a ship I'd regularly use, while the Attack Carrier would make Goriths reasonably useful against Starfuries/Sentris, which would be nice. I'd probably drop the e-mine and give it Command...

Unfortunately, the fact that I was attending the tournament had sort of slipped my mind somewhere in the middle of Friday night, and I forgot to stop drinking until about 5am on Saturday morning. Managed to get to bed by 6, and got a call from Tank and Ad at about 8:30. After crawling out of...

Don't forget the "broken" G'Vrahn and it's massive 10 AD (8 aft) of non twin-linked pulse cannon at range 10", no shields, no interceptors and worse fighters. The addition of shields alone will make the S.O. *much* more worthwhile, a beam at 24"-30" on top of them will make it one of the...

How about:- Bluestar Gunboat (Skirmish) After finding their resources stretched while hunting the Drakh, experiments were made to increase the firepower of the useful bluestar design to adapt it to a more combat related hull. Initially, an Improved Neutron Laser was fitted in an attempt to...

I'll play any slot left empty at the end... I don't mind playing any of the three.

I really like this. Would swap over the Bridge Hit and Secondary Explosions results on the vital areas crit table, though... No SA is far worse for a big ship than d6 damage/crew.

I prefer getting rid of 2fers completely, as well. Possibly either up damaging/crewing them (Tethys), up gunning them (Sho'Kos/Sho'Kov) or a combination of both (Haven). Something like +4 damage/crew to the Tethys, +2/+4 on the Haven along with 4 AD of AP/DD Light Matter Cannon at range 8, and...