Talisinbear
Mongoose
I know Gropos not a Mongoose product, but since this is B5 site, can anyone tell me if the game is any good? How many pieces do you need to effectively play?
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Gropos
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Talisinbear
Mongoose
some on ebay at times
eldiablito
Mongoose
I don't know, personally...
There are SO many ground level games already. Does Mongoose really want to start competing with the likes of AT-43, WH40k and even their own SST and BFE systems?
Perhaps if they just transfered their existing engine with a set of B5 army lists... Hmmm... That could be cool... NO! What am I thinking!?! I have too much to paint already!?!
Honestly, if they want a successful ground level game for the B5 universe, they should probably stick to smaller, squad level games as this would better represent the boarding actions that take place in the show. Entire ground level wars wouldn't be all that realistic, IMO, when you have Mass Drivers to cleanse an entire planet of it's defenses.
There are SO many ground level games already. Does Mongoose really want to start competing with the likes of AT-43, WH40k and even their own SST and BFE systems?
Perhaps if they just transfered their existing engine with a set of B5 army lists... Hmmm... That could be cool... NO! What am I thinking!?! I have too much to paint already!?!
Honestly, if they want a successful ground level game for the B5 universe, they should probably stick to smaller, squad level games as this would better represent the boarding actions that take place in the show. Entire ground level wars wouldn't be all that realistic, IMO, when you have Mass Drivers to cleanse an entire planet of it's defenses.
Lord David the Denied
Mongoose
eldiablito said:
Mass drivers are outlawed by interstellar treaties...
Ground battles do take place, we know from the episode GROPOS where we see EarthForce troops and vehicles in action. We also see Centauri infantry in a couple of episodes on the Narn homeworld. It's not the focus of the series, but ground battles are mentioned several times. EarthForce fought the Minbari on the ground many times.
Besides, we have planetary assault missions that involve troops fighting it out on the surface of planets, it's just massively simplified.
As Mathew stated on the Planet Mongoose Blog, the BFE rules are going to be an open content wargaming system (ala d20) for people to use. They are already using it for the updated SST, the BFE World War, and BFE Modern rules. It shouldn't be very difficult to implement a B5 variant. They already have some miniatures. It's not a very big stretch.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
hiffano said:
They never released any for sale from Mongoose that I heard of, I'd have bought them if they had.
:lol:
LBH
lastbesthope said:
Really?
What about these?
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1130&qsSeries=11
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1142&qsSeries=11
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1150&qsSeries=11
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1124&qsSeries=11
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1108&qsSeries=11
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Those were done as an accompaniment for the RPG, not for GROPOS or Mongoose's replacement for it.
I have all those you mention above.
:lol:
LBH
I have all those you mention above.
:lol:
LBH
I knew that, but they would easily work for Gropos, and I'm sure these are what he was talking about. The only ones that I would think really wouldn't work well are the Centauri Royal Guard as I'm sure a standard Centauri unit wouldn't wear their Class A/Ceremonial uniforms. The rest are what I would assume are the standard military uniforms.
emperorpenguin
Mongoose
Delthos said:
nope, these were the models for Gropos/War Without End
and these are the regular Centauri soldiers
the guys in white are the Emperor's personal guard
