Recent content by Mr_Punch

I tried something along those lines about a year ago, converting for B5W ship stats, using the mainline ships like Omega and Hyperion as yardsticks and the B5W points to establish preliminary values. They never received much in the way of play-testing as the reaction (from some) was pretty...

As a slight detour back to the ship itself, I had stats (converted from B5W) for the Tanatlus in the EA release of the ACTA Points I did a while back. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~mrpunch/Babylon5/B5W/ACTA-Points-EA.pdf While there have been reservations about points systems in general, this...

In B5W it was a core part of the Yolu's fleet doctorine, which is primarily defensive in a "peace through superior firepower" kind of way. Reduce the capability of the enemy at range, and by the time they get close enough to exchange fire it will be suicide for them to do so. I'd go with a...

Ahem, Just to remind people (and introduce newbies), I did up a series of points conversions for ACTA about six months ago. The ships are converted to match their B5W original stats, and their points are based off those. As such this system allows quick and easy conversion of other races (for...

I'd also like to throw out my thanks to Lorcan for a whole lot of fun during the valiant defense of the Line (or Io). For a while it looked like Earth might have been in with a chance when the first shot by an earth ship de-crewed a Minbari cruiser. Fighting continued through two hard turns...

Lorcan, Are there any more details on the ACTA special event at this point? I'll be there, but won't have time to enter the tournament so I'll be going for this instead. From the flyer it looks like the Line. Are you planning on just running the straight SFOS scenario for folks or having some...

B5W seems to be often misrepresented as being overly long. With two ships each and no fighters it shouldn't take more than 20mins per turn to play (so an average 4 turn game would be over in an hour and a half). With fighters that would increase to about 30 mins a turn. In comparison I have...

Any chance of an image of what the plans look like? Something akin to the preview shown here http://members.aol.com/FdFrontier/mirandabps.jpg for the Star Trek blueprints they sell at that site http://members.aol.com/FH1860/ Cheers if possible. john

Some additional thoughts: B5's might have the had reactor mounted down the end of that boom due to problems with the previous stations designs. Perhaps some of the others might actually be less than 8km long, but with the entire length made up of the Hab tube instead. Regarding different globe...

There's not really much to go on as regards the layout of the earlier Bab stations, but certain things can be assumed from the ones we do see. We can assume that all five stations follow the O'Neill cylinder pattern (rather than being Orion style bases) given that 1, 4 & 5 definitely do. We...

In Thirdspace you see the yellow Maintenance Furies picking up debris after a battle if I recall correctly. Plus I seem to remember a mention of what happens to all the crap outside in "A view from the gallery", with the techs moaning about having to clean up after each fight. john

Frobisher, While Sat mode is indeed useless against flights, you can just hammer out a full normal barrage against a flight (and each attacks a separate fighter) - no pulse melarky to worry about. [We now return you to your scheduled ACTA] The original's Ballistic Torpedo was never really a...