Recent content by Tal Hawkins

Planetary assault really should be close to impossible. The attacker is going to be so outnumbered that the odds of success is pretty slim. In the show we only see two planetary assaults. One was by the gropos and it was not a full assault but instead was an assault on a specific target on a...

The movie is framed by his story at the beginning and end. Dramatic device or not that would make the movie his interpretation of events. That does not matter anyway. The AJP weapon scene from the movie was a very narrow specific situation nothing at all like the uber-bomb that everyone keeps...

WRONG WRONG WRONG They were able on-screen to do the attack ONCE using a ship as bait to draw the targets into a very specific spot. FURTHERMORE the entire movie ITB is nothing more than a story being told my Londo so the fact that we NEVER see the tactic used except in a story being told by a...

What part of in a very specific situation did you not read?

The real problem is that it is only used once in the show in a very specific situation and rules much more open ended were written. The rules allow the AJP ability be used much more effectively than the show ever demonstrates.

Easy solution that fits the one show example. To use AJP you must jump into real space within 6" of one of your own ships that is acting as a beacon for you. If that ship is destroyed or no allied ship is within 6" then your AJP ability converts to standard JP for that jump.

Who wants to play the EA if the only way to have a chance is by only playing 5 point patrol and skirmish games?

Unforunately that gimmick is destroyed by the easy mode Minbari who use nothing but beam weapons. (Yes I know there are a few small exceptions)

But the WS wasnt anything special except for the adaptive armor, small jump drive, and the weapons. The weapons dont visually appear to match Minbari weapons so it appears that the best parts of the ship are Vorlon.

A. 800 years with a static culture really means nothing. You see nothing that suggests and real attempts at technological progress by the Minbari. They are too tied up in tradition. B. Earth also explores the galaxy searching out technology much more aggressively than any other race so age...

At no point in the show are we ever given any evidence that a Sharlin would defeat an Omega Destroyer. The two ships only encounter each other once and in that instance the Omega had a dozen good reasons (including nto starting an intergalactic war with the Minbari) to retreat that had NOTHING...

I am pretty sure he calls them jumppoints since Sheridan immedialty asks if it is the Sharlin jumping in to help.

As a side note we cannot say who would have won the EA or the Minbari fleet brought in to protect Babylon5. Clark would have not wanted a war with the Minbari while still consolidating at home and I am sure the Captains of those ships had strict orders to retreat if forced to engage ships from...

Flaw in the system. There should be places in the crit chart where special systems can be taken down. As for stealth I always found it silly that a crippled ship instantly loses all interceptors while stealth has the standard 4+ chance to fail. In my mind something like stealth ( probably a mix...

Remember though that one of the tactics everyone says is that a player fighting the Minbari should split fire between as many Minbari ships as possible in an attempt to beat stealth more often. If a Minbari player takes only a few ships then he highly reduces the viability of that tactic. As I...