[RPG]: Traveller: Warships of Babylon 5, reviewed by ViciousMink (2/2)

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Jonathan McDermott's Summary:

A review of Mongoose Publishing's supplement providing statistics and deckplans for several major <I>Babylon 5</I> warships.

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[C.W.Richeson]

Thanks for the helpful and informative review, Jonathan! It answered all the questions I had about the book.

[Nilus]

Why would you need deck plans for a fighter anyways.

[mechascorpio]

Thanks for the review, Jonathan. I felt like I had spent the past year also being a sucker due to the initial flaws in so many of the MgT books. I would love to be gung-ho over this game, but it seems like every book is full of unpleasant surprises. I had such high hopes for MgT due in great part to the plan to adapt it to B5.

But after pre-ordering "The Universe of Babylon 5" and being appalled by the lack of quality throughout, I'd decided that was the last straw, no more pre-orders. I would wait for reviews before deciding, and even then wait a few months until a "revised and fixed" edition was released if required. Sadly, this won't happen with WoB5, so I'm simply going to skips this and probably pass on future releases in the line. Despite a number of promises from Mongoose about QC, it just doesn't seem to be getting into the final products. There are just too many other things competing for my dollar these days, and I can probably buy these used at half the price a year from now.

[Dropkicker]

Wow, it appears Mongoose continues to get hammered on the quality issue. I'm not saying it's not deserved, I haven't bought a single MGT book so I have no opinion either way, but I'm consistently hearing the same opinions about its products.

[GarrettPLC]

Re: the comment about Shadow fighters--I believe that the small Shadow fighter-ships are supposed to be jump capable; they're the smallest ships in the series to be able to independently move into hyperspace.

Blessed be,
~Nathan