Recent content by Ren'Sur

Back in about 1980/81 I ran a Blakes 7 fan club called 'StarOne'. I also helped run the convention of the same name. At that time I wrote to the BBC for B7 background info as I was writing a set of rules using 'Traveller' as the core. I still have the typed up set somewhere but as it was done...

I think he may be talking about the kind of campaign guide I did for FA which has rules for espionaige, galactic stock market, economic warfare, how long ships take to build and how much they cost, how much economic points a system generates etc etc

Yes to more campaign books and also yes to a unified mega campaign guide so you can fight battles over more than one system. I see nothing wrong with variants of ships as long as they are for a role which is actually needed i.e mine layer/sweeper versions, troop ship versions etc.

In one of the TV episodes which has a 'flash back' to the bombardment of Centauri Prime (its not clear whether its by the Drazi/Narn fleet or the retributive strike from the Drakh), there is clearly pulse weapon fire rising up from the ground. The fortresses attacked in the 'Gropos' episode also...

The Dilgar should have 'Normal' bombs, Nukes, mass drivers and biological weapons. Unlike most other races they excelled at Planetary Invasions, as they should do considering they were planning to move their entire civilisation to a new home world.

'the Planetary defence grids are represented by the Orbital Defence Satellites and ground Emplacements. SFOS mentions that the massive Surface to Orbit batteries of some sci-fi series are not present in B5.' Well, that could be wrong, especially taking into account the episode where a combined...

The B5 movie 'A Call to Arms' features quite a few planetary assaults, or references to them by the Minbari. Planetary assaults should be made even more difficult by having rules on 'Planetary Defence Grids' which are mentioned in several episodes.

This was exactly the same problem with AOG's B5W and FA. However, not all races would be either able or interested in mounting planetary assaults, just like some nations on Earth now are not interested in engaging in wars and similar. In a campaign you have some other options i.e. converting...

If your using rules which use a point based system for ships, and also economy points to repair ships etc and a man power point system to replace crew points 'killed' in combat, then you need to think about protecting those worlds, colonies and outposts which generate those points. Its no use...

Two things would prevent me, the distance (I live in Margate, Kent) and most of July I'm going to be away at various music festivals. Sounds like a good idea though.

In FA, you could play a game with about 50 ships per side in that same 4 hour time frame! I'm not into overly complex ship combat games like B5W and SFB, FA and ACTA meets my requirements due to speed of play and campaign possibilities i.e you can acutally fight battles involving many ships in a...

Pauly_D Never played B5W FA did we! I know all about Fleet Action games in connection with B5, I actually prefered FA to B5W and, with the help of some other fleet scale enthusiasts, we managed to get practically all of the League and other worlds ships data cards done for that game. I think the...

Counters gets my vote every time! And think on this one- If you want to reenact the Dilgar Invasion, then apart from the EA, Drazi, Abbai, and the Vree, who else are the Dilgar going to fight? We need counters for the LLort, Pak'ma'ra, Alacan's, Minoc, Hurr, Yolu, Cascor, Ipsha, Hyach...