lastbesthope
Mongoose
Hi all,
Well I finally looked through the copy I picked up yesterday.
Nice to see lots of our facourite ships statted up for 2E, though I still want that conversion document). Can't say for certain if all the 1E ships are in there, but there are a heck of a lot.
I have some comments on the presentation and artwork.
The hand drawn ships, some of them don't look like they belong in the races they have been assigned to. particularly the Brakiri ship on P.106, but maybe they are based on designs I am unfamiliar with.
The Abbai ship pictures seem to be photos of the ACTA minis, which is fine, I think they look better than some of the hand drawn ships elsewhere in the book.
Which brings me onto the ISA section, the WSG and WSC-A pictures don't look enough like Whitestart variants to me, and they look very little like the upcoming B5 ACTA minis for the ships.
Other comments, it's not always obvious which ship the picture is of, the Va'Nial fighter might have been better placed in the ISa section based on it's fluff text and it would have been nice to see some stats for the upcoming ACTA Armageddon ships, I know the ISA gets the jump on that because their Armageddon ships were already in the RPG from the Rangers supplement but still, would have been nice.
ALl in all I'm impressed with the book though, well presented overall, and lots of fluff and crunchy stats to keep gamers happy. The art I haven't commented on above is very nice indeed.
LBH
Well I finally looked through the copy I picked up yesterday.
Nice to see lots of our facourite ships statted up for 2E, though I still want that conversion document). Can't say for certain if all the 1E ships are in there, but there are a heck of a lot.
I have some comments on the presentation and artwork.
The hand drawn ships, some of them don't look like they belong in the races they have been assigned to. particularly the Brakiri ship on P.106, but maybe they are based on designs I am unfamiliar with.
The Abbai ship pictures seem to be photos of the ACTA minis, which is fine, I think they look better than some of the hand drawn ships elsewhere in the book.
Which brings me onto the ISA section, the WSG and WSC-A pictures don't look enough like Whitestart variants to me, and they look very little like the upcoming B5 ACTA minis for the ships.
Other comments, it's not always obvious which ship the picture is of, the Va'Nial fighter might have been better placed in the ISa section based on it's fluff text and it would have been nice to see some stats for the upcoming ACTA Armageddon ships, I know the ISA gets the jump on that because their Armageddon ships were already in the RPG from the Rangers supplement but still, would have been nice.
ALl in all I'm impressed with the book though, well presented overall, and lots of fluff and crunchy stats to keep gamers happy. The art I haven't commented on above is very nice indeed.
LBH