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Space Naval Games / Re: Babylon 5 Wars Conversion to Firestorm Armada

« on: May 08, 2015, 12:35:39 pm »

OK, so finally had my first game using the Firestorm rules for my B5 Ships and it was interesting.  A little difficult as trying to learn the rules and the B5 Conversion at the same time but the guys I gamed with were positive so that's a bonus.

The fleet lists were provided by Stephan (many thanks) and were:

Earth Alliance: 1 x Omega; 2 x Hyperion and 3 x Artemis

Narn: 2 x G'Quan; 3 x Var'Ni,k and 4 Sho'Kos


The Narn player basically operated the Q'Quans and the Var'niks together and faced off the Omega and the Hyperions.  One Var'Nik died real early to the Hyperions thanks to some exceptional exploding dice rolling but after that the Hyperions pretty much outgunned.

Apologies that one of the G'Quans is unpainted - that is currently being rectified as I post oh, and the Oracle was masquerading as an Artemis as I only own 2!!



As for the Omega, well, it shot a few times but lacked any real punch to do any real damage to the G'Quans and was well, pretty useless.  It managed to kill a Sho'Kos but that's not really too hard.

The Artemis though, when they linked all ships and 2 x railgun systems in an attack were pretty awesome - pity they were too far out of the early battles to get involved.



This was only our first ever game using a new rules as well as the conversion so more play time required but so far so good. When we have more experience I can post back our assessment of the conversion - keep up the good work!!

Tim

Edit - forgot to add but Stephan, your ship stats are a bit hard on my old eyes so I recreated them using Excel.  I've attempted to attach the worksheet to this post for people to look at - hopefully it'll work ;-)

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Space Naval Games / Re: Babylon 5 Wars Conversion to Firestorm Armada

« on: April 14, 2015, 11:59:57 am »

Hi Tim, thanks for your interest!  Where about are you?  Dale and I will be playtesting EA vs Centauri at Gamers Haven in Colorado Springs on Wed of this week if you're interested.  Otherwise, feel free to download the materials and give them a spin, I'm always interested in feedback.

Hi Stephen - I'm from the UK mate so getting over to watch your game  was a little difficult I'm afraid 

I will be downloading your amendments Stephen (thanks for making them freely available) and hope to give them a try in a couple of weeks  - other game commitments allowing.  Just to explain though that I am a B5 acta player and very little experience of the Firestorm Armada rules so will have to try and learn those rules AND your conversion at the same time 

I currently own two fleets for B5 - EA and Narn.  I gave you a list of the ships that I currently own would you be able to give me input of creating 2 balanced small fleets to start testing the rules with at all?  That we free my brain cells up for just remembering the rules and not worrying about what ships to try and field.

Many Thanks

Tim

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Space Naval Games / Re: Babylon 5 Wars Conversion to Firestorm Armada

« on: March 30, 2015, 03:53:35 pm »

Hi Stephen,

Joined the forum just to say that I'm extremely interested in the conversion that you are doing of B5 to Firestorm Armada.

I play Babylon 5 ACTA myself although I do have a copy  of the Firestorm rulebook.

Well, just wanted to say that for now