thePirv said:
Both Shadows and Vorlons recieved upgrades to their ships, and are included in Armageddon.
Well "upgrades" is not exactly what I would call it...at least as far as Shadows go.
The Shadow 5pt Raid fleet is far less effective at Tourneys as it once was (admittedly the old tourney Shadow Hunter was a big block of cheese)
The change to the Shadow Scout is admittedly great, it is now the old tourney version making it much more viable.
I would have been very happy if they just changed the Shadow Hunter to Hull 5 and left it as it is but they upped it a PL level...and modified its stats so it's a lot like the Shadow Ship in the old tourney rules...except less hits, less range on its gun and no turret arc!
Sure the Shadow Ship is at Armageddon but its not much tougher than the War version of the Shadow Ship in the old tourney rules, certainly not to merit a whole PL level.
Still they get their fighter for free so I am generally happy but still - they are not all upgrades!
My own whining aside

Don't get me wrong though - I agree its a shame that Dilgar and Drakh don't get a look in Armageddon and genuinely hope that will change as Matt said in S&P and later 2nd Edition - sorry guys, guess that sucks big time.
Personally I would like to see at least one choice for every fleet at every PL (with the exception of Ancient maybe!) its not competing for power that makes me want it, it's just having new ships to play with that would be cool, opening up new tactics, letting me try out different combinations of fleets and generally keeping things fresh and new helping to keep my enthusiasm for the game alive.
I appreciate the arguements on canon etc is important for some but personally I couldn't care less. I play ACTA as a starships game, not some kind of fanboy devotion to recreating the B5 series...which I hadn't even seen until I got into ACTA anyway!