El Cid said:
I agree that the weapons should be more in line with the Shadow type weapons espically after reading the Tecnomage trilogy.
Wrong. Their weapons aren't shadow-based. In fact, nothing of their "normal" tech is. Only their implanted "magic tech" is shadow-built. So their ship guns would have been products of Taratimude tech, or any other tech they picked up alon g the way.
And looking at Galen's attacks (red plasma "fireball" or yellow "lightning touch"), a EM-based system does come to mind naturally.
I just object to an TM craft armed in the way or your standard combat LCV - two small guns and one medium one. For one it makes them cram in more stuff then they should be able to (Jump Engine, nifty systems And just as many guns as LCV's dedicated to combat), for another it doesn't follow the feel of their crafts - more geared for stealthy transport then conflict (and thirdly with those rules the TM Pinnace was nastier in B5W then some ancient medium ships! It was as well armed as any combat LCV, yet stayed almost unhittable even after giving away it's position by starting to shoot - so it had a pretty good chance to take even a dreadnought with twice it's "combat value" cost apart over time, something that didn't sound like the TM transports I know from the screen & books...).
I once made a personal version, with two basic alterations from AoG's design - for one it had an "Illusion Projector", doing the illusion effects (also because I thought it inconcievable for technomages to have enough personal power to cast those illusions themselves, strong and multi-spectrum enough to fool even ship-mounted sensors), for another a single, but rather versatile weapon system - a "Lightning Caster" capable of firing three light bolts, or a single, more powerful and longer-ranged beam or a area-effect but short-ranged blast.
Hey, maybe whoever will write Mongoose's TM supplement wants to have my version as a base to build the RPG ship... :wink: :lol:
Agent One said:
Yes, keep in mind, we created the Technomage Pinnace before the technomage trilogy came out. I suspect it would be different now. For one thing, we know from the trilogy that the pinnaces can be made to look like nearly anything...pegasi, unicorns, dragons, etc. Not much effect in a board game like B5 Wars, but in the RPG, it could be very interesting indeed...
...though that one could easily be covered with a rule addition to the illusion rules... :wink:
And IIRC the first two TM books were out by the time you posted the Pinnace...
But the SotM was never intended as final version anyway, I can remember several that changed quite a bit until their release... and I had hoped the TM pinnace would change too (and maybe even coming closer to my design... I did send you the SCS back then...)
I can guess rather good at what they can do and all,I know they are suppose to among the fastest ships in the galaxy if not the fastest,and are also suppose to quite stealthy as well. We also know they are atmospheric capable and also have artificial gravity,but beyond that it is questionable.
