From:           	R.J.Bull@newcastle.ac.uk
Date sent:      	Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:42:57 +0100 (BST)
To:             	babylon5-wars@vex.cs.colorado.edu
Subject:        	[B5W]: Tinashi Playtested a bit
Send reply to:  	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU


Hi, a couple of friends and I were playing a few battles in a campaign 
we have created using the basic rules. 
We have been introducing the ships of the month to the game, and 
whilst finding the Mimbari and Centauri quite hard, things have seemed 
reasonably balance for a 50 hex map.

Two battles that cropped up over the weekend were as follows:

1 Tanashi, 1 flight of Nials vs 3 flights of Starfuries (1 Elite), 2 Omegas

1 Tanashi, 1 flight of Nials vs 8 flights of Frazis, 4 G'Quans

Not all the players playing are of equal skill, but this is the way the battles
went. 

Mimbari vs Earth  

Omegas went defensive, and charged, Tanashi delayed firing, and then did a 
small amount of damage. As Omegas got close, I started the Tanashi moving to 
avoid them. More Fire, Omegas minorly damaged. Fighters from Omegas attack
and due to bad dice rolls, and full defence from Tanashi, they scratch the 
primary and front end, and lose 5 of their number, the nials doing the bulk of 
the damage. So far apart from the Nials doing quite a lot of damage to the 
Starfuries no major damage has been done. Mimbari got bored (me) so I did a 
close pass, the omega I attacked lost it's front end, and after I flew by the 
Tanashi lost most of it's rear. The Tanashi pivoted and backed of firing all
it's NC's (they weren't hit) and doing more damage, Earth bugged out with 
the remaining Starfuries. 

Mimbari vs Narn

Mimbari went on immediate scatter, but the Narn Emine barrage got lucky and 
damaged the Nials, effectively neutralizing their potential. The Tanashi
damaged the front end of a G'Quan. The Narn started a full attack run, the 
Nials attacked the damaged G'Quan, along with the Tanashi. The G'Quan lost 
half it's front and a third of it's side, and the Tanashi and Nials were 
eliminated.


In both scenarios the Mimbari forces were heavily outnumbered and the Narn were
lucky, and the Earth unlucky. We found that the Tanashi could almost make 
itself unhitable but Emines are great. In conclusion, we felt the Tanashi was 
cheap but vunerable to fighters. As a support ship for a kitted Sharlin it was
excellent value. 
All the sides decided that they wanted to buy the Narn Emines and have ships 
that could use them, and that they were very powerful. You need a certain
amount of luck with Emines, but if you have enough G'Quans, you can start to
factor the luck element out of the game.

Rich