Warships Of Babylon 5 (Traveller) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
From the humble Hermes to the mighty Victory-class advanced destroyer, this book features many of the ships found in the Babylon 5 universe, provides all the rules you need to use them in Traveller, and features extensive deck plans for all of them! Whether you need a small frigate for players to crew or a terrifying Sharlin warcruiser for them to escape from, everything you need to ply the space lanes of the Babylon 5 universe can be found here.
Series: Traveller
Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Mongoose Publishing (June 23, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906508259
ISBN-13: 978-1906508258
Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Yes, its Traveller, and yes its Babylon 5, two great tastes that...did not mix especially well in this case. In all fairness, I do not have the core rules for the Mongoose iteration of Traveller, but I do have them from the half-sheet sized booklets of first edition, GURPS, Marc Miller's M0, and TNE; frankly, the core Mongoose rules aren't really necessary to understand what this book contains if you have the original or (especially) the GURPS Traveller rule sets.There are deck plans for a selection of vessels, ranging from fighters to the larger capital ships--civil vessels, merchantmen, heavy explorers like the Cortez-class, and the station itself are not present--from the Earth Alliance, Minbari, Narn, Centari, and an eclectic mix from the Non-Aligned Worlds, Shadows and Vorlons. Yes, I understand that the title of the book is *Warships* of Babylon 5, but in both Traveller and B5, trade protection and interdiction are core reasons for having a fleet; lacking soft targets to ambush or protect from attack misses a key concept to both continua.If you have any familiarity with the old Agents of Gaming "Babylon 5 Wars" game line, there are very large differences between how the same ship is represented in game terms and background between the two systems. In my personal opinion, the B5 Wars iterations better realizes what was seen in the TV series than their Mongoose counterpart. Part of this is a matter of interpreting what a given platform is capable of and what it is armed with, but there is a greater problem--to my mind at least--in that the shape (and armament) of a vessel as seen in the B5 TV series does not mesh well with the technological demands inherent with Traveller, and how Mongoose chose to deal with these conflicts was not handled gracefully.
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