Wish List for Babylon 5 ACTA

[Cavalier1645]

Hi Just having way too much time on my hands and Just want see what people want for Babylon 5 ACTA.

Here is Mine

Earth: Get a Armagedon Ship Class thats not unque (Hey wasn't there a Medusa class Battleship that was mention in the series?)

Centauri: Put some Interceptors the Primus and the Octurion. The nobilty of the centauri prise safety. there fore the ships where they flock too should have more defense. Also the Centauri serious need a new Battlecruiser to replace the Primus, just like the Warlock and the Marathon replaced the Omega and Hyperion.

Narn: I pray that the Narn get an actual Battlecruiser that can hold its own with other races. Also the Narn serious need interceptors, especial on their big ships.

Minbari: Could use a good skrimish level ship. Other than that don't see need for inprovement.

Other Races: Don't Really play them, so no wish list for now.

Shadows and Vorlons: What the Planet Killers and the Dreadnoughts back

That enough for my wish list for now. Can't wait to see what the rest of you want for a wish list.

Till next time

 

[Joe_Dracos]

Earth: Get a Armagedon Ship Class thats not unque (Hey wasn't there a Medusa class Battleship that was mention in the series?)

The Madusa would be an Early years ship (and totally theoretical) as it was in the design stages during the Earth Minbari war. It was eventually abandoned for the Omega instead due to the cost of the Medusa. Also it would probably only be a war level ship as it was designed to confront Sharlin Warcruisers. A good Armageddon level ship for EA Crusade era would be a Warlock Heavy Destroyer (warlock variant).

Centauri: Put some Interceptors the Primus and the Octurion. The nobilty of the centauri prise safety. there fore the ships where they flock too should have more defense. Also the Centauri serious need a new Battlecruiser to replace the Primus, just like the Warlock and the Marathon replaced the Omega and Hyperion.

The interceptors are not likely to happen. As for the new battlecruiser, that would be the Dargan. Go stealth go.

Narn: I pray that the Narn get an actual Battlecruiser that can hold its own with other races. Also the Narn serious need interceptors, especial on their big ships.

Again, interceptors are a pipe dream, but the good news is all the G'Quan variants get +1 AD to there beam and 10 more damage and crew. Plus whenever any Narn ship conducts close all blast doors they ignore damage and crew on a 4+.

Minbari: Could use a good skrimish level ship. Other than that don't see need for inprovement.

What about the Torotha, its fantastic! It has an insane number of AD and and stealth.

Shadows and Vorlons: What the Planet Killers and the Dreadnoughts back

Thats not what the Shadows and Vorlons really need, they could use more ships, but bigger ships, no. More battle and lower level ships for sure.

 

[katadder]

on EA try this one:

I saw a few people were on about EA not having their own armageddon ship so heres one I have been working on stats for. should make an appearance in a future supplement, maybe with some suggested tweaks

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?roa5n88mkmo

picture is not mine, but I cant remember where it came from.

edit: forgot lumbering so add this to this ship if you use it.

cenaturi - maybe but you do have maximus for defence. also advanced ships wise at battle level I think the centauri do well with dargans and liatis.

 

[Cavalier1645]

The Madusa would be an Early years ship (and totally theoretical) as it was in the design stages during the Earth Minbari war. It was eventually abandoned for the Omega instead due to the cost of the Medusa. Also it would probably only be a war level ship as it was designed to confront Sharlin Warcruisers. A good Armageddon level ship for EA Crusade era would be a Warlock Heavy Destroyer (warlock variant).



The interceptors are not likely to happen. As for the new battlecruiser, that would be the Dargan. Go stealth go.

Again, interceptors are a pipe dream, but the good news is all the G'Quan variants get +1 AD to there beam and 10 more damage and crew. Plus whenever any Narn ship conducts close all blast doors they ignore damage and crew on a 4+.

What about the Torotha, its fantastic! It has an insane number of AD and and stealth.

Thats not what the Shadows and Vorlons really need, they could use more ships, but bigger ships, no. More battle and lower level ships for sure.

Ok, Didn't know Medusa was early war design, A heavily armed version of the Warlock is a good choice for Armagedon ship, but needs a new name (Warlock Heavy would be confusioning). Wish they gave the Nemesis back to Earth

I Know asking for interceptors for centauri heavy ships is a pipe dream (iE, wish list), but make sense for the centauri. The Dargan is a overspecialized strike crusier, not main line cruiser. The Centauri need a new main line cruiser to play in same class as Marathon or a Warlock. Make it a War level ship (kinda like a centauri verison of G'Vrahn) and complement the Adria.

Yep according to ACTA the Narn are slow lumbering orks who like to take damage. CBD doesn't help against crits and the Q'quan refit isn't much help to the Q'Quan, especialy against Late Earth and Centauri.

didn't know about the Torotha thanks

Sure the Vorlons/shadows don't need them (do they really need Heavy Cruiser ships either to utther kill people), but it really cool to have them back again.

Thanks for your input
Can't wait to hear more from you all

 

[Da Boss]

for war level Centauri battlecruisers both mine (The Cari) and Katadders Earth Centauri war have designs. Be nice to have a new War level ship but it is not priority given other problems / gaps in fleet lists............

Medusa is a good name - better than Warlock Heavy.........

Torotha are v good skirmish ships - 8AD Minibeams - 8)

 

[Methos5000]

They could still call it the Medusa. It was largely a conjectural design if I recall (did one ever get built?) It could have been put on the back burner and when all the new Crusade level technology started showing up maybe a designer discovered the old plans for it and improved it with the newer technology.

 

[stryve]

As long as were throwing wild ideas around, I may as well toss a few out myself.

Brakiri: A Riva carrier. Possibly a Brokados varient; lose the boresight beam, maybe Command. Maybe 4 Riva, 2 Falkosi, or just 6-8 Riva (just throwing out numbers, here). Riva obviously need special facilities, and so cannot be swapped out for Falkosi/Pikitos. Also, some sort of Patrol ship. Brakiri tend to steal other race's ideas and make them their own, so maybe an overgrown fighter like the Myrmidon? Or just a Shakara without Scout/Stealth to keep things simple.

EA: A Medusa class Armegeddon ship would be great. Also, a Raid level warship for Crusade. The Hyperion is a good ship, but it just doesn't feel right in a Crusade fleet.

Minbari: A Patrol ship. I have no idea what it'd be like, though.

 

[Target]

As long as were throwing wild ideas around, I may as well toss a few out myself.

Brakiri: A Riva carrier. Possibly a Brokados varient; lose the boresight beam, maybe Command. Maybe 4 Riva, 2 Falkosi, or just 6-8 Riva (just throwing out numbers, here). Riva obviously need special facilities, and so cannot be swapped out for Falkosi/Pikitos. Also, some sort of Patrol ship. Brakiri tend to steal other race's ideas and make them their own, so maybe an overgrown fighter like the Myrmidon? Or just a Shakara without Scout/Stealth to keep things simple.

EA: A Medusa class Armegeddon ship would be great. Also, a Raid level warship for Crusade. The Hyperion is a good ship, but it just doesn't feel right in a Crusade fleet.

Minbari: A Patrol ship. I have no idea what it'd be like, though.

For the Minbari, maybe the large version of Flyer model could become the Transport type at patrol. Their version of the Hermes.

 

[Joe_Dracos]

It was largely a conjectural design if I recall (did one ever get built?)

According to what "fluff" I've read about the madusa, there was rumors about a hug hull in the Proxima fleet yards, but it was never launched before the Minbari destroyed it and the yards.

 

[Tolwyn]

Give the Lakara a boost to make it worth taking over 2 of the new upgraded Bimiths.

Make larger ships worth taking. Not only through a new FAP Chart, but some sort of resilience to crits. large ships can still be critted to death by small ships. As long as ballancign favours taking 2 smaller ships instead of a larger one large ships will be a less common sight.

 

[silashand]

Centauri:

I'd just like the Octurion to be worth fielding really. It doesn't need much of a boost, but it seems pretty weak compared to other choices.


Shadows / Vorlons:

Since we will shortly have miniatures for these vessels again, I too would like rules for the Planet Killer / Dreadnoughts. I think it's best if they are categorized at the Ancient level. Obviously we won't see them on the table that often, but I'd prefer they be representative rather than playable in "normal" games.


I'm sure there are others, but I just can't think of much at this time. Ah well...

Cheers, Gary

 

[Triggy]

As long as were throwing wild ideas around, I may as well toss a few out myself.

EA: A Medusa class Armegeddon ship would be great. Also, a Raid level warship for Crusade. The Hyperion is a good ship, but it just doesn't feel right in a Crusade fleet.

A Raid PL ship for Crusade was planned but cancelled with the hiatus on minature production. The idea for the Omicron is still about and will probably resurface once Ironwind get rolling.

 

[stepan.razin]

As long as were throwing wild ideas around, I may as well toss a few out myself.

EA: A Medusa class Armegeddon ship would be great. Also, a Raid level warship for Crusade. The Hyperion is a good ship, but it just doesn't feel right in a Crusade fleet.

A Raid PL ship for Crusade was planned but cancelled with the hiatus on minature production. The idea for the Omicron is still about and will probably resurface once Ironwind get rolling.

Could make an Omicron (or a ship that you had in mind) a variant of an existing hull. Just a thought.

 

[Tolwyn]

Please, no more variants.

 

[David Anla Shok']

Give the Lakara a boost to make it worth taking over 2 of the new upgraded Bimiths.

Make larger ships worth taking. Not only through a new FAP Chart, but some sort of resilience to crits. large ships can still be critted to death by small ships. As long as ballancign favours taking 2 smaller ships instead of a larger one large ships will be a less common sight.

Larger ships should have more redundancy and larger repair facilitys

 

[CratZ]

-Better secondaries to Hyperions and Omegas.
-Redundancy or somekind of crit protection on bigger ships
-Get rid of ini sinking. (somekind of system that gives both players same amount of turns or something similar)

Might come up with more later.

 

[Tolwyn]

I agree with all your point CratZ.

Perhaps add in a change to the Beam system to make it less of a game breaker. I saw an interesting rule in a game called Starmada. It made the number of hits depending on the difference between the to hit roll and the hull score of the target. So there could again be SAP and AP Beams and larger ships would have better changes for less hits because of a higher hull score.

 

[Tolwyn]

Today it happened again. Beam weapons just killed a game again. On 5 Raid my Omega was destroyed by just one lucky shot from a Ka'Tok

 

[Grunvald]

Today it happened again. Beam weapons just killed a game again. On 5 Raid my Omega was destroyed by just one lucky shot from a Ka'Tok

emphasis on the one lucky shot!

how many times can you get lucky with beams?

they either work or they dont that seems to be the point a lot of the time,

They either kick butt!!!!!!!

or might scratch your paint work!

Personally i like they currently work, even if my Vorlons can not shoot for toffee sometimes!

It the randomness of it that makes it fun to play!

 

[Sting52jb]

Here are some ships that i would love to not only see stats for but possibly miniatures of in the future.



Achilles class Light Cruiser, a Dilgar War ships



Arctic class Cruiser EA civil war replacement for the Hypernion



Tempest class Crusier EA post Civil War replacement for the Hypernion



The Starfire

and finally



The Toshikin class Cruiser a post IA Brakiri cruiser designed to supplement the Avoiki