My gaming group is going to do some scenarios where the only vessels you may use are those that appeared in the show or the movies. We are in conflict about the Balvarin. In Lost Tales, right after the warlock has destroyed the centauri vessl using its heavy particle cannon, in the background is a centauri vessel that appears to be a Balvarin. Can anyone confirm this so we know if we need to include the Balvarin in our scenarios? Thanks.
Balvarin Spotting
- Thread starter Garthim
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Da Boss: I started a thread like that after I first came here, maybe that was it?
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29528&highlight=
Greg had caught a ton of ships that I'd missed.
Garthim: No problem. There's also a couple of shots of the Brakiri Tashkat (lower right on all three):
http://www.jumpnow.de/p/movies/vitd/losttales_676.jpg
http://www.jumpnow.de/p/movies/vitd/losttales_037.jpg
http://www.jumpnow.de/p/movies/vitd/losttales_074.jpg
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29528&highlight=
Greg had caught a ton of ships that I'd missed.
Garthim: No problem. There's also a couple of shots of the Brakiri Tashkat (lower right on all three):
http://www.jumpnow.de/p/movies/vitd/losttales_676.jpg
http://www.jumpnow.de/p/movies/vitd/losttales_037.jpg
http://www.jumpnow.de/p/movies/vitd/losttales_074.jpg
Greg Smith
Mongoose
It was the last episode. Sheridan used it to get to B5 and out into space.
Neither do the Gaim. 
I'm not a gambler so I won't take Hiffano's money, but I'd take Earth against the Centauri or any other Younger Race. Ships at all levels from Skirmish up, plus two types of fighter.
I'm not 100% sure about that Tashkat. It's difficult to judge size, but the shape of the vertical tail fin, the lack of forward wings and the lack of vertical finlets on the wingtips all say that could be a Shakara instead. Although the Shakara has a round cross-section hull whereas the Tashkat, like the ships in those photos, has a square cross-section. For the purposes of the game, decide if you want the Brakiri to have nothing smaller than Battle level or nothing larger than Battle level.
I'm not a gambler so I won't take Hiffano's money, but I'd take Earth against the Centauri or any other Younger Race. Ships at all levels from Skirmish up, plus two types of fighter.
I'm not 100% sure about that Tashkat. It's difficult to judge size, but the shape of the vertical tail fin, the lack of forward wings and the lack of vertical finlets on the wingtips all say that could be a Shakara instead. Although the Shakara has a round cross-section hull whereas the Tashkat, like the ships in those photos, has a square cross-section. For the purposes of the game, decide if you want the Brakiri to have nothing smaller than Battle level or nothing larger than Battle level.
Democratus
Mongoose
Three EA fighters. Didn't the Badger make an appearance?
Perhaps if one side simply played "League" then there would be enough variety. As it is, Centauri and EA have the real on-screen variety.
Perhaps if one side simply played "League" then there would be enough variety. As it is, Centauri and EA have the real on-screen variety.
sidewinder
Mongoose
If thats supposed to be a blue star, that thing is bigger then the whitestar. I thought they were supposed to be tiny?
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Democratus said:
Yup, Voice in the Wilderness Part 2
LBH
Time to be pedantic. The Badger never made an appearance. It was supposed to appear in the film "In The Beginning" but never did.
What appears in "A Voice In The Wilderness" is just a heavy fighter. Chameleon Eclectic, designers of the Babylon Project RPG, found out about the name Badger and wrongly applied it to this fighter. AOG copied them, Mongoose copied AOG. According to Tim Earls, who designed it, "The Badger is more like an F-111 with pilot and co-pilot sitting side-by-side in a lengthened fuselage with the wings swept slightly forward".
For references, take a look at B5 Scrolls, featuring (among other things) a whole lot of ship designs plus comments from the designers. For one thing, I was wrong on another count - the Gaim did get one ship, a fighter which looks nothing like the Klikkita.
As for the Blue Star, it's difficult to judge size from the first of Eek's photos, but most of the nose section seems to be the cockpit, so guess that it's somewhere around the size of the bridge of a White Star. That would make the whole Blue Star about the size of the top part of a White Star. It looks bigger than a White Star in that photo because it's coming towards you and the nearest White Star isn't.
The Badger never made an appearance. It was supposed to appear in the film "In The Beginning" but never did.What appears in "A Voice In The Wilderness" is just a heavy fighter. Chameleon Eclectic, designers of the Babylon Project RPG, found out about the name Badger and wrongly applied it to this fighter. AOG copied them, Mongoose copied AOG. According to Tim Earls, who designed it, "The Badger is more like an F-111 with pilot and co-pilot sitting side-by-side in a lengthened fuselage with the wings swept slightly forward".
For references, take a look at B5 Scrolls, featuring (among other things) a whole lot of ship designs plus comments from the designers. For one thing, I was wrong on another count - the Gaim did get one ship, a fighter which looks nothing like the Klikkita.
As for the Blue Star, it's difficult to judge size from the first of Eek's photos, but most of the nose section seems to be the cockpit, so guess that it's somewhere around the size of the bridge of a White Star. That would make the whole Blue Star about the size of the top part of a White Star. It looks bigger than a White Star in that photo because it's coming towards you and the nearest White Star isn't.
