Recent content by Slightly Norse John

Actually, that's one of the SDN crew's main complaints; not enough wounded, not enough dismemberments. Part of Leia not getting splattered has to be put down to character shielding, mostly to the notion that the bolt didn't burst properly until it passed by and hit the bunker wall behind her...

Chaosomega, where are you getting that from? That sounds more like the hatemail section from SDN. Whatever the source of that is, it's not the technical commentaries. Celisasu, you have your take on it and I have mine- but for the record; the stormtrooper standard blaster carbine fires a bolt...

For detail and accuracy, try a combination of Star Wars Technical Commentaries (run by an astrophysicist) and Stardestroyer.net (run by a mechanical engineer.) Hardline rationalism, "Burn the EU" types. Great.

Their class names are mostly bird related; hawks, eagles, and the like everywhere. I've only actually used the Drazi about half a dozen times, but if I was going to, I'd probably run with that as a theme. The obvious for the capital- Hawk, Condor, Kestrel should be nothing less than...

Nolo comprehendere. You're trying to compare 'BF'- Battlefield Evo?- Mongoose's ground combat game, with Ground Zero's space combat game, on the forum for Mongoose's space combat game? Does not compute. On the only assumption that makes sense on this board, Full Thrust vs. ACtA, people who...

If we did get custom titles, what would they be? I know it can be done, there's another forum I'm getting into that uses them, and they can be funny, informative, and serve the same purpose as red and yellow stripes on a frog. Would you start an argument with someone whose official title was...

I was thinking more of a wide oval, ribbing- diagonal, slanted top forward, starting about half way to the stern stretching aft, rear fins set into the lower wings. If it's Torotha sized, a smooth hull would be easier to model, wouldn't it?

Would a verbal description do? Picture this for the Minbari- oval cross section tapered hull, sharp under-nose weapon bulge, long, smooth dorsal fin starting far forward; lower fins- do you know what the wings on the RAF Victor bomber looked like? Set slightly below horizontal, thicker at the...

The Venator is quite an interesting ship; what you actually saw in Revenge of the Sith (Go, Sith, Go...) was them being used in spectacularly inappropriate circumstances. They are fast but not that agile, they are intended primarily as carriers, five wings to the Imperator's one, with a small...

Majeh, the problem with that is, if you look at the actual model used in the films, where are they? Imperator-I has three medium triple turrets on the centreline forward of the superstructure, and four large twin turrets on each side of the superstructure. The after of each heavy turret line is...

There's supposed to be an archive at www.swshoebox.com, but the site was down last couple of times I checked. WOtC's official site has done a set of prequels of ships that gave their roleplaying game and SBminis stats, and the Invisible Hand, the Recusant, the Munificent and the Venator were all...

Here's the problem; the Raid- level Dilgar Targrath throws twelve Bolter, six Pulsar and four Disruptor torp dice in the forward, or turret trainable forward, arc- trivial aft and no P/S fire other than the turret. The Battle- level Kahtrik throws ten Bolter, twelve Pulsar, eight Disruptor, and...

On the 'New SW mod' thread, Matt revealed that there is a horrendously unofficial conversion document floating around head office- the rules and stats exist, but we don't know what plan, if any, they have for smuggling it out, because as sure as moving to Alderaan is a bad idea, it would be a...

Star Wars is covered as far as Mongoose Towers goes, don't know what the rest of us are supposed to do... I like the tactics and technology of David Weber's universe, but I have become increasingly fed up with the extremely potent character shields, and found myself agreeing with the people...

Never use them, because they're part of the fluff, not part of the stats. The evolution of the race in question is measured by movement on the PL scale, Armageddon is proof of that. Never mind that because of the little vs. large issue, the EA seem to be evolving backwards in terms of combat...