Starships of the Galaxy: Abbai Ships

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As my FLGS doens't carry Babylon 5 RPG stuff, I just wanted to ask if some of you couldname some ships included in that book. I'm mostly interested in Abbai ships. And: Are there pictures beside the game stats?

 

[Ulkesh]

Don't have the book but the League book has an entire chapter on the Abbai and there ships. Not sure about ship pictures as its been a while since I went through the book but its quite good.

 

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Don't have the book but the League book has an entire chapter on the Abbai and there ships. Not sure about ship pictures as its been a while since I went through the book but its quite good.

But it's also first edition

 

[Shadow Queen]

you want ships of the galaxy

 

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you want ships of the galaxy

Yes, well, that actually is the name of the thread and was posted by me in the very first post

As my FLGS doens't carry Babylon 5 RPG stuff, I just wanted to ask if some of you could name some ships included in that book. I'm mostly interested in Abbai ships. And: Are there pictures beside the game stats?

I wanted to get some information before I was to spent any money. There aren't any previews available for Ships of the Galaxy, neither for the second edition rulebook. I remember previews being mentioned for the 2nd edition rulebook. Have they been pulled? Does anyone have them still?

 

[lastbesthope]

The 2E corebook previews seem not to be on the site anymore, but I still have them.

2 files, about 2 MB total, if you want them let me know where to send them

LBH

 

[Gabriel_Luna]

Yes, there are Abbai ships. Several pages, mostly different classes of warships from carriers to patrol ships. There are ships for pretty much everyone in Ships of the Galaxy. There are SOME pictures, but not a picture for each and every ship.

Were you looking for "types of ships" or actual ship class names?

 

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Yes, there are Abbai ships. Several pages, mostly different classes of warships from carriers to patrol ships. There are ships for pretty much everyone in Ships of the Galaxy. There are SOME pictures, but not a picture for each and every ship.

Thanks for the info. Too bad about the pictures, though.

Were you looking for "types of ships" or actual ship class names?

Your answer was helpful, I am not quite sure about what I wanted to know myself. I guess I wanted to know if there are mostly on screen ships or a lot of self made ships by the Mongoose.

 

[Gabriel_Luna]

In that case, yes, there are lots and lots of off-screen ships, but the ones on-screen are, of course, featured as well.

 

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Thanks.

Is it just statblock after statblock or is there a little history and stuff about the ships as well?

What do you think of the Space Combat System of the Second Edition?

 

[Gabriel_Luna]

Each chapter has a few paragraphs about each race's general approach to space travel or general history as an intro. Each entry has a paragraph describing the ship and a little bit of its history. Mostly it's stats, but there's a little text holding each entry together.

Space combat, as written in the core book, is unworkable, in my opinion. However if you add in the armor damage rules that keep popping up on the forum here it starts to shape up. There are a number of other rules corrections and adjustments that have come up around here that probably make it better, but for simplicity's sake I think the armor damage rules are the most important, and cover the biggest gap in the rules.

That being said, however, I really like what they did with the space combat. It's abstract, so it focuses on plot and character involvement and not on speeds per second, hexes and the like. I prefer it, but I know it isn't for everyone.