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How heavily armed is Babylon 5, and with which kind of weapons? I looked at b5 tech, but that site is not 100 % true.

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From what I remember, it has three different types of weapons - no x-ray lasers, but Nova-style cannons, interceptor cannons, and some ... other ... cannnon. It's also not bristling with guns, I mean, sure it's armed, but it's no orbital defense platform.

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Well, we have been also thinking about this as we are releasing B5 in next release.

Some pictures:

Designed for interceptor and anti-fighter role. (No interceptors in FS2, so no interceptors in TBP)
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fury/b5_guns/b5_gun1.jpg

Few long range plasma mortars, quite ineffective against small fighters.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fury/b5_guns/b5_gun2.jpg

This gun is protecting the hangar and C&C, similar but smaller versions are located here and there.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fury/b5_guns/b5_gun3.jpg

This gun is an Omega killer. It can do some serious damage to any capital ship.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fury/b5_guns/b5_gun4.jpg

This information is not canon, we just had to think something up and especially gun2 specs may be changed.

B5 also have a navigation beam, it's only for navigation assistance so it's not a weapon. But if someone wants to replace it with an Omega beam... Or we can equip the slot with a light beam cannon, perhaps similar to that on Midwinters. But the turret is locked by default.

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But if there are no interceptors or weapons like that, won't the station be vulnerable to fighter attacks in the mod? ( And I mean the heavy fighters, like the Badger)

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make em flack cannons with a different explodion avi

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There will be that weapon, I just meant it can't be used as an interceptor. Interceptors are designed to shoot down incoming enemy fire, but this can't be done in FS2. That gun will be used as anti-fighter turret.

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or like the laser turret on the triton frigate that looks just like an interceptor (subach hl-7)

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Look or effect does not count!
In FS2 we can't shoot down incoming enemy fire, like other primary weapons. Missiles can be shot down but not pulses. That's what I mean. The gun will be used as an anti-fighter turret, and that's what it is designed for.

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Well, it will make dogfights around B5 Very interesting

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Of course we'll balance them, dogfighting around B5 is not impossible if B5 is hostile. There are quite a lot of blind spots, B5 relies heavily on it's fighter support.

For "impossible" dogfights there is Babylon 4.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
For "impossible" dogfights there is Babylon 4.

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The guns around the hangers and C&C are you going to make them fire barrel by barrel or is that not possibe,and the plasma mortars type of fire. And will the omega killers recoil?

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No x-ray lasers?, I always thought that they were.

As far as I know this pic is from the show, not sure of the episode though.

http://shadow.tky.hut.fi/b5/images/babylon5-6.jpg

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no babylon 5 didnt have X-ray's

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That's the navigation beam I was talking about earlier.
It's not a weapon.

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That beam was used to convey information like navigation or messages.

The lack of interceptors does not mean that the guns do not exist, just that they do not "intercept" enemy shots.

That "mortar" has been referred to as an interceptor and given a rapid enough rate of fire should be pretty effective at being anti-fighter. However, B5 is mainly dependent on it's fighter support as can be seen by multiple combats where the majority of enemy fighters are taken out by friendly fighters.

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SWEET SWEET SWEET!!!!!!

I love interceptors! (I mean anti-fighter)

we dont care about shooting incomming fire... as long as those COOL LOOKING TURRERS in the pics are there, shooting at fighters at rapid rates..... *drools*

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I believe the phrase is:

"Set interceptors to long range dispersion fire" - Captain Sheridan

Bye bye any fighters not paying attention

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That would be stupid ( I mean not paying attention)

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Just look at ItB with Sinclair's Alpha squadron - that shows you what not paying attention can do

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