The Great War?

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JayRaider

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When the glorious 2nd Edition arrives would you be interested in take part in a massive campaign thats co-ordinated online?
You could contribute battle results from games against your regular real life opponents and/or Vassal ACTA games.
Any ideas on how this could be brought about?
What type of campaign etc.
:)
 
Nice idea :)

Set it during the Shadow War at the begining, so you could have the excuse of the Shadows stirring everything up and jumpy Admirals attacking races that normally are Allies....
 
I was thinkiing that each faction could have an appointed leader.
Then people would volunteer to serve a faction.
The leader would take direct control of all decisions for his faction, while the volunteers would get to play out the battles.
Volunteers would have a week to play the battle and submit there result.
The victor being the side that won the most victory points over the collective battles.
Its flexible, you can get to play any side over different weeks.
I'd love to see the Galactic Map being used.With respective fleets deploying there forces per system.
 
it would be possible to do on a galatic scale using the map, but would need someone to do a website.
people can choose one faction to fight for, and can choose any target they wish as long as they have an oponent with the race controlling it. when reporting they would have to report the scenario they played at said target as this would effect what happens.
factions:
B5/Army of light: these factions wouldnt attack each other
-ISA
-EA loyal to Sheriden
-Minbari Relgious Caste
-Narn
-LONAW combined

Clarkist EA
Minbari Warrior Caste
Centauri
LONAW - all pure fleets of the races, no combined fleets here
Shadows
Drakh
 
people can choose one faction to fight for, and can choose any target they wish as long as they have an oponent with the race controlling it
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I had considered this too, but what happens when you haven't got an opponent?
Its possible your mates aren't playing for the targetted faction? :)
It might be difficult to have Lonaw combined and seperate, it could get messy :)
 
How about just having Lonaw as a diplomatic body.?
For example, membership of the Lonaw would mean that you can't attack fellow lonaw members,if you choose to do so, you risk the wraith of the remaining Lonaw members.
Basicly Lonaw would just be a political construct, rather than a legitimate faction, and the individual members would be able to choose to go it alone or stay within the boundaries of Lonaw membership.
Lonaw members cannot attack other lonaw members.
Lonaw members cannot attack nuetral systems.
Lonaw members are bound by the collective decisions of the League on political issues.
Members can ask to table a motion on any issue after the turn has finished but to do so you must receive the support of at least 3 other members.
Motions are carried by majority/unanimous?????
After all, isn't B5 as much about awesome space battles as it is politics/diplomacy/philosophy :)


Heres a revised list of factions: just my 2 cents :)

-B5/Army of light: these factions wouldnt attack each other
-ISA (loyal to Sheridan).
-Minbari Relgious/Worker Caste .
-Vorlons
-Narn.
-Abbai

Free to choose their allegiances to either Army of Light/Darkness or both!
-Drazi
-Brakiri
-Vree
-Pak Ma Ra.
-Gaim.

Forces Of Darkness:
Clarkist EA
Minbari Warrior Caste
Centauri
Shadows
Drakh

Just thinking, whats to be done about the Lonaw members that aren't represented in the game yet? (Hyach,Markab,Ipsha etc)
Perhaps allow them to be factions? Represented in battles by Raiders? ISA forces?
 
JayRaider said:
They seemed good at it in the Minbari civil war :)
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But we aren't talking about recreating minbari civil war now are we? Warrior caste did not act in Severed Dreams though likely got involved in Shadow war for their own safety(shadows were threat to them as well).

There's no evidence they were allied to Shadows. At most they were neutral.
 
I think that the idea of a mega campain is great, but you might have to ignore background matterial a bit when it comes to deciding the time frame. What I mean is if it is set in the shadow war the drak havn't come in to play yet, there is no intersteller alliance. The markab are all pushing up whatever passes for daisys on their homeworld, and there arn't any armagedon or EA crusade era ships arround. After the shadow war and the universe has lost it two great puppet masters, but all the juicy bg ships are there. I think this thread needs to run for a while to see if a good story/setting is thought up. I hope so as a mega campain sounds like great fun, but players of certain fleet shouldn't feel left out.
 
How about Alt future universe where the First Ones get bored out on the rim, fight amongst themselves and decide to come back to sort things out................... maybe each faction could get either a sponsor God (Shadows or Vorlons) or instead have access to an Ancient patron.............

so maybe

Vorlons
ISA
Minbari
Elements of EA

Shadows
Elements of EA
Drakh
Centauri

Ancients (one per race?)LONAW, Narn

then one Ancient, feeling left out, plays with time and a vengeful Dilgar fleet arrive to mix it up under its patronage.

Then its combat the Old Navy Way

"First one to die, loses!"
:D
 
This sounds great I would be very interested in participating. Our group is running a campaign right now and this is a great idea. Count me in and probably most of the members of our campaign.
 
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