Can you Cover more Ships from Babylon 5. I've been wanting to watch Babylon 5. SO this would be pretty cool. to hear on the different ships. :)

Ah, that Supreme Commander music. Yes, YES!

Ah... B5... Loved it... Have a look at the olympus class corvette if you get chance

If you want to give a speech, you find G'Kar. If you want to tell a story, you find Londo Mollari.

Mister Garibaldi!!!!

Ahh, Vir! Ahh, Mister Morden!

One of the things that made B5 great was a good sized cast that was well fleshed out and covered a whole range of character type...G'Kar and Londo are some of my favorites but Ivanova was the best damn character in the whole franchise. They all got some memorable lines

@@MrGoesBoom My favorite is Vir, he is the only one who got exactly what he wanted.

@@edwardteach3000 Vir was amazing and getting to watch him grow as a character over the seasons was great fun

And the pictures that accompanied the comment are great. I always laugh.

"Do you think i married them for their personalties ?!? Their personalities can shatter entire planets and knowing they are waiting back home - it's what keeps me up here."

BSG, B5, SW, ST, always gets my vote.

Cern Stormrunner im even simpler, i see spacedock content, i upvote.

And expanse. That's an up vote too

Wait was I on reddit all this time?

DAMN STRAIGHT!

If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid. The Omega could easily fit in The Expanse universe if they used plasma weaponry instead of bullets.

The Omega Class would stop most of The Expanse Ships tbh. It’s a bloody sturdy ship with a lot of weapons that can’t be intercepted by shooting them down.

This made me giggle.

Then take that rotating brick out of the middle....add sleeker contours and chamfered edges...add artificial gravity from the minbari and viola....the warlock class

@@Gothic7876 Well missile and kinetic weaponry still hold its own in terms of range, however the jump capability (especially once it gets more precise) could really turn the tables, one of these 1500m+ monsters would turn Expanse ships into molten slag at close quarters

Never wanted to live forever anyway

Still not enough dakka. There's never enough dakka.

Blood for the blood god!...wait wrong franchise.

@@invidofinp1828 well... at least the gun size is the same

More Dakka needed but sir.....MORE DAKKA IS NEEDED

I thought that sounded familiar too!

Indeed, the SupCom music is always a pleasure to hear!

Can't remember if they ever outright admitted it, but Paramount had DS9 add in a war arc because B5 had plenty of fighting/war in it and was taking away viewers...admittedly the Dominion war parts of DS9 was some of it's best seasons but I still think B5 wins hands down

@@MrGoesBoom Paramount made an out of court settlement.

US agreed. Problem with hangers is that they're holes in the armor. Should never be pointed directly at an attacking force if you can help it - and when it's in line with the axis of thrust, that's just begging for one lucky shot to gut the entire ship.

Pyreleaf I believe we saw the same design concerns with Wing Commander. And the Battle of the Void Scene in SG:A where the Daedalus crippled a massive Hive ship with secondary explosions by targeting its hangar. The difference is in Wing Commander, the Carrier (Kitty Hawk?) was meant to be far away from the action, while in B5 these ships are meant to be in the thick of it attacking head on.

US I think if someone absolutely INSISTS on putting a carrier in melee, at the very least, the hangars should be placed on the sides of the ship, and heavily protected by shields and PDCs.

I guess they wanted ships to dock with the hangar _along_ its like of acceleration.

In the lore, the hanger mouth that you see in the various EA ships is a RECEIVING BAY for the most part. The SOP for EA ships and stations is that they use launch tubes (in the Omega's case, in the rotating hab-block so they can use the centrifugal gravity to launch them) or bays and launch them that way. The problem is that CGI was STUPIDLY expensive back then, so a lot of the lore stuff got cut in the process.

Earth Alliance Ships did actually ram Minbari Ships. Minbari Ships fell apart, while the sturdy EA ship kept going

@@Gothic7876 That's what happens when you ditch sturdy hull designs and decide to give the project to modern art students, a flying brick covered in gun is the most delightful sight possible^^

@@scorpixel1866 A flying brick covered in guns?.........................I can think a few ships like that

@@scorpixel1866 eh if the modren art projects got stealth and can melt a small fleet before you know where it is being able to win a game of chicken doesnt really matter

@@vonfaustien3957 stealth in space vs CIWS. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen!

gahh, Earth ship will do fine spanks, the less we mention the evil empire of EA the better.....frakking lootbox peddlers....

Oh so that's why Earth did not have gravity generators and all the other good stuff, it was a DLC that the other species paid for before us

In sci fi - its called human utilitarism - ugly as sin but hitting like a brick through window and dishing damage like there was no tommorow.

well the first 3 were destroyed by sabotage or other means and the 4'th one was lost on activation and on;y the 5'th remained in use.... it was our last best hope for peace.....

Yea The Dilgar War is amazing. To alot of fans it is the Canon interpretation of the Dilgar War

is there anywhere a description of the Dilgar war?!

@@atlanteean Dilgar war on Fanfiction.net. 104 chapters and three times the word count of Lord of the Rings.

Awesome story that really fits the tv series, I would love it to pieces if it was both declared canon and if they could have gotten a movie based on it. 100+ chapters of goodness with a fantastic cast.

@@MrGoesBoom Movie? What are you smoking? They would need at least 20 40 min episodes to tell it.

They could actually kill Sharlin class War Cruisers without ramming, since with the sheer number of heavy cannons on a Nova, they could hammer a Sharlin to pieces with concentrated broadsides at close range. The Issue of course, was getting into short range to broadside them, without getting cut apart by the Minbari's superior weaponry

@@weldonwin No, the problem was targeting the Sharlin. The Nova had enough range to go against a Sharlin, but it could not hit it.

@@alfredkugler3043 That was why they needed to get to short range, in order to actually hit the Sharlin

Well ramming kinda implies you gotta get close - and Mimbari ships could strike from quite far away and they had better sensors...so ramming while possible.... was tricky :P Basically too unreliable to use it as a main battle tactic.

You forgot luck

It seems to have been mostly down to spending, they built the Explorer Class ships that explored new claims and set up jumpgates with their tolls and that financial revenue (along with protection money and favourable trade deals from helping the League of Non aligned worlds beat the Dilgar when they were on the verge of defeat) was what allowed them to build a fleet vastly larger than most other races with the exception of the Minbari and Vorlon. I mean if you look at the size of the Earthforce ships (km's long with tonnage well into the tens of millions) and factor in Humans only had a couple of developed colonised worlds and two dozen or so mining colonies and outposts on less hospitable ones (across just 14 star systems) then the fleet is larger than the industrial output of the Earth Alliance would otherwise allow. Those 14 colonies seem tiny when you see the Earth Alliance controlled a significant chunk of the galaxy (circa 10%) the Vorlons had nearly half the galaxy and then the rest was pretty much divided up equally among the other major powers and league of non aligned worlds. The Centauri seem to have had dozens of colonised hospitable planets but not a huge industrial base due to their decline, Minbari had likely nearly a hundred colonised planets and then the Vorlons had hundreds of heavily industrialised worlds (just a simple observation post had a moon spanning city).

petr pinc that and CGI for a sci-fi series like that had never been done before, and they were figuring out how to do things as they went

@@bytesabre Yep, weird to think that people today can put out same or better quality from home, what back when this first aired was super expensive and took whole teams.

MrGoesBoom yeah a load of Amiga 2000s and video toasters strung together with bailing wire and gaffer tape iirc

It was actually due to a computer error.

They should've painted them yellow and black. Mimbari ships are blue and are very hard to hit, so... whaaaaa!

Not in an episode. But it "in the Beginning" shows a Nova firing one of its cannons (a pair of strange, organe, laser-like beams, very distinct from the yellowish green Minbari weapons)

You can see them firing (and getting annihilated) in this sequence from Babylon 5: In The Beginning from which the opening of this vid gets its quote: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/est-da1m1JPGZ6c.html

Such a shame we didn't get to see it firing a big volley clearly. I understand it was said when they were firing off a full barrage their engines had to be shut down to divert power. That Londo speech is one of the finest sections of B5 ever, and that bit of it where you see an Olympus class and her fighters going up against about 30 Mimbari war cruisers......:O

4 damn seconds!

I AM DRUNK

I AM RAGE!!! -_-

what works work plus lots of spare parts that could be repurposed into the omegas. also shipwrights would need less training/exp to crank out omegas

The Posedion, by my count, completely fucking unfair. 24 Starfuries is bad enough, but 96 Starfuries is basically an "I win" button. I've run simulated fights using the tabletop RPG where 12 Starfuries operating as a wing have shot capital ships to shit in a few rounds and taken maybe, what, 3 casualties each?

Because they couldn't get target lock.

Mostly because they couldn't get a target lock, and in space battles getting close enough to target with the Mark 1 eyeball already means you've lost

If they could get close enough to get a manual target lock yes they could.

There will never be enough dakka... still, a bit of black and yellow paint would help.