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Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 15, 2004, 06:31:33 am
I have a couple of questions,
have you guys worked on any cargo containers, weapons platforms, and the centauri and narn space stations/outposts. You can see from the title that this is concerning an idea for a centauri-narn war campaign. Unfortunatly there is only so much that I can work on right now. Because all that is availiable are the two cruisers and battle ships.

Secondly, is there anyone out there interested in Fredding a few missions?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Fury on August 15, 2004, 07:07:14 am
Both Narn and Centauri stations are WIP. Narn defense platform is finished but nobody has yet begun working on Centauri blockade mine, same with any other cargo pods except EA. Actually there is just one cargo pod done at the moment but these are pretty easy to make, it's more of matter of  time if these gets done anytime soon.

I am afraid only new Narn or Centauri ship that gets done to R3.0 is Narn defense platform (or was it in R2?), Primus and maybe Scarab.

Presumably R3.1 will bring you Octurion, T'Loth, Rutarian, Gorith, Toreth and both Centauri and Narn stations.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: -Norbert- on August 15, 2004, 07:11:21 am
For what stands WIP?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Fury on August 15, 2004, 07:11:38 am
Work In Progress.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 15, 2004, 12:06:21 pm
well the main ones are that are key to the campaign I have in mind are the defensive platforms and bases and cargo containers. a narn transport would be great also. I could use the heavier cruisers and battle ships but these were rare in the original series and would be somewhat rare in a campaign. they would be present especially in missions involving attacks on planets.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Sigma957 on August 15, 2004, 09:09:23 pm
Scarab trasnsport should be in R3, I've just got to play around with the lod texture and then its up to the convertor to get it in game.Primus lod0 is finished and just waiting on the other lods:D :D :D
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Col. Fishguts on August 16, 2004, 03:08:35 am
Narn Ja'Stat station is currently being uv mapped...:nod:
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: IPAndrews on August 16, 2004, 03:36:16 am
In the mean time take a league base and stick 5 Th'nors to it. ;)
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 16, 2004, 07:27:38 am
any chance of getting those bases a little early?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Fury on August 16, 2004, 07:33:21 am
When finished and next "base" is released ;)
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 16, 2004, 02:24:37 pm
sigh, oh well.
Mind if I bounce off some mission ideas?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: IPAndrews on August 17, 2004, 03:16:04 am
Bounce away.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Fury on August 17, 2004, 03:57:16 am
Hmh, I just remembered that I actually have a script for Narn-Centauri War. I never finished it though, first four missions  were written and general script laying somewhere, I forgot where.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 17, 2004, 06:13:11 am
Mr. Fury, could I see?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Fury on August 17, 2004, 06:22:23 am
Ahhh I don't know. With quick glance it seems to be full of spelling and grammatical errors as well as a poor script. Hell, its about two years old.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 17, 2004, 09:29:44 am
lol, well not much better than what I could come up with. I am sure. But I have a general idea. I want to start with the pilot jumping in and finding the base and outpost destroyed by the shadows and seeing the centauri. Then immediatly after that mission the Narn go on the offensive and attack one of the centauri colonies.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 17, 2004, 08:01:07 pm
the end of the campaign will probably include refugees making it to B5.

Any input is more that welcome.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Slasher on August 18, 2004, 04:25:52 am
A Narn-Centauri campaign isn't inconceivable by any means despite the lack of ship variety.  If the missions were kept varied enough a player would never notice.  Varying missions is something someone should shoot for in any event. :)

Cruisers appearing to be rare in the series might simply be due to JMS not showing a whole lot of the shooting part of the 6 (standard) month Narn-Centauri War during Season 2.  I'm sure the actual conflict spanned many star systems, but I suppose JMS didn't want S2 getting bogged down in this little conflict.  During all that shooting I'm sure there were plenty of capships, however.  The Narn and Centauri had big fleets and the Narn had a huge population from which to draw soldiers and officers from.  Plenty of potential carnage for a campaign. :)
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 18, 2004, 06:52:18 am
well I am going to purchase season 2 on half.com
for two reasons:
1. Audio and CB Animations, which reminds me, anyone know the process of taking a dvd ripping it cutting it up and encoding as a ANI?
2. I only remember so much about the actual conflict.

But, Slasher you read my mind. the missions need to be kept varried. I am even thinking of a covert ops involving a centauri fighters. I am also trying to figure out how many missions should be made. I mean if the conflict lasted 6 months literally we could be talking about 100 or so sorties.

I am thinking about how many large battles there should be. or how many cap ships should be involved.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: -Norbert- on August 18, 2004, 12:20:38 pm
Don't forget to make the end a little like the R1-Campaign.
Until their desperate attack on the Centauri Supply Center on Gorash (at least I think it was Gorash) they fought a holding action, being pushed back further and further.

And remember the series is named Babylon 5, so it's quite logical, that it's main focus is on the station and it's crew, not on the Narn/Centauri war.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on August 18, 2004, 04:07:24 pm
well I know that but this is not going to be from the alliance perspective. It is from the Narn perspective. It would involve B5 but not centered around B5. The attack on Gorash didn't involve Narn fighters. the attack will be brought up towards the end though. This was the end of the war when the centauri used mass drivers on narn. most likly it will involve a huge image of narn and a dozen scarab transport and fighter escort and a cruiser or two.

These ships will have to run a blockaded jump gate.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on September 04, 2004, 10:35:07 am
basically I have been giving this some thought. The player will most likly be part of a battle group consisting of 5 or 6 ships including some support vessles and a Narn carrier. These ships will be destroyed one after another till all that is left is a the one ship that Babylon 5 protected. I am still thinking about if I can have a ongoing story in the campaign like was in fs2 or more like the fs1 storyline.

AFTER R3 is released I need some FREDDERS. Any one up to the call?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Aphenicus on September 06, 2004, 08:53:55 am
Like I said in the "Will you help us to finish R3 quicker?" thread., I can use FRED , so I could probably help you out.
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Whitelight on September 06, 2004, 09:47:15 am
Hi Aphenicus
Fires up the welcome beam :D

:welcome:
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: redmenace on September 06, 2004, 10:59:12 am
Aphenicus, have you joined the FRED Academy?
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Gloriano on September 06, 2004, 11:04:18 am
Welcome Aphenicus :)
Title: A Narn-Centauri War Campaign
Post by: Aphenicus on September 06, 2004, 05:32:35 pm
No I have not joind the FRED academy, but that might not be a bad idea....I think I shall go post there.

And thanks for the welcome