... maybe FA should have been included...
Anyways, here are my 2 humanity`s cents
I myself liked B5W the best, but since I love SFB as well, mostly due the management factors of those games and the detail they involve. Problem is it was / is not an easy game to learn to people who just love to play a game in a television series they like.
So luckily ACTA came around as our BFG inspiration dropped and we resorted to using B5W ships as `counts as` in the BFG game... not really fun anymore after a few times. ACTA is easier to learn without having to spend nights on reading, and campaigns actually proceed at a faster pace then 1 battle / night (since our group comes together on friday nights only), we now manage to squeeze a full campaign turn in a single evening most of the time.
Now when people would ask who was better, Mongoose or AOG, I would have to vote AOG. This is not intended as a `personal attack` but just a few facts I observe over the models.
The `invented` sculpts of B5W in both scales, like the Gaim Moas, the Pak ships, FA Hyach, etc... just have a better `babylonican` feel to them then the vessels Mongoose has been releasing the last year. Another aspect, but that is due to the `whole industry material change` was that the AOG ships back then where crispier cast, had less flash and made the details come out better.
It might not be a bad idea for Mongoose to first `up the range` of the still existing ships from the AOG catalogue, upscaling them where necessary like the Chronos / delphi / Apollo from FA. A league supplement with things like the Gaim (with their unique hull), the missing Vree ships, Abbai ships, Centauri Lias etc etc might produce more `enthousiasm` among the player base then some of the monstrosities that have appeared with Armageddon or the Drakh...
