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Babylon 5 - Space Combat is a stand alone boxed roleplaying game that concentrates on combat between ships in the Babylon 5 universe. Featuring two books and easy-to-follow reference sheets, this game takes space combat within Babylon 5 to a new level. While not requiring the Babylon 5 roleplaying game, Space Combat is an excellent addition to the roleplaying game and will be an invaluable resource for any player wishing to take combat to the depths of space.
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A Call to Arms is the game of space combat in the universe of Babylon 5. From skirmishes involving single cruisers hunting down raiders to the clashing of allied fleets against the forces of ancient beings aeons old, A Call to Arms is your ticket to exciting battles that take place in the depths of space. Sky Full of Stars is a full-colour, 208 page rules supplement for the Origins Award winning Babylon 5:A Call To Arms providing further excitement and depth to an acclaimed and hugely popular science-fiction miniatures game.
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Well done game........2006-02-19
This game accomplishes a lot; it is not too simle that it has little replay value. The different fleets are, indeed, distinctive. The game does not suffer from rules so complex to make play boring. I can't wait to try out the rules for campaigns, recreating certain eras in the Babylon 5 timeline--there's a good deal of stuff in just the box to keep you playing for a long time.
My first test game found it fairly quick to play. The game really captures the feel of the Babylon 5 genre, while presenting a fast paced game that is still challenging. Though Babylon 5 fans will be happy, anyone seeking a fun sci-fi starship combat game that strikes a good balance in detail and playability won't be disappointed.
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Witness the full might of the Dilgar Empire, a race destined to live briefly but fiercely! This fleet book describes the invasion of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds by Dilgar strike forces in detail, covers their unique technology and provides a full and comprehensive fleet list to use in A Call to Arms. With special fleet rules and a full description as to how Dilgar are used in campaign play, this fleet book is the first to bring an entirely new race to A Call to Arms.
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Babylon: A Call to Arms, Rules Supplement 3 (Babylon 5 RPG)
M. Sprange
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A Call To Arms Rules Supplement 3 crucially expands Mongoose's Babylon 5 space combat game, providing new and exciting alternatives for players eager to add to what is already being hailed as a classic space combat game.
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Following the great success of A Call To Arms, Mongoose Publishing's space combat game for Babylon 5 comes the first in a regular series of supplementary rulebooks to further expand and enhance the game. Now players can participate in the wider elements of the plethora of conflicts offered by Babylon 5. A Call To Arms Rules Supplement book one allows players to expand on the original game with a host of new equipment, including ship and weapon variants as well as advanced rules and gaming options. A Call To Arms Rules Supplement book one crucially expands the Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game, providing new and exciting alternatives for players eager to add to what is already being hailed as a classic space combat game. Hot in this first book: Revised White Stars and a brand new campaign to try!
Mongoose Publishing have a justifiably good reputation for supporting their game lines, and this rules supplement reinforces this and will sure to be popular with all fans of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
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"When the time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the right one. Because you will only get one shot . . ."
The Shadow War is long over, and the Interstellar Alliance--presided over by former Babylon 5 commander John Sheridan--is about to celebrate the fifth anniversary of peace among its united member worlds.
But a planet, annihilated by an unspeakable weapon appears in chilling dreams. And on that world there lies a terrifying promise of Armageddon. For the Drakh, once servants of the bloodthirsty Shadows, are following in the footsteps of their vanquished masters--preparing to launch a devastating interstellar war. Their first target is Earth.
This threat will draw Sheridan back to Babylon 5--and into an uneasy partnership with a beautiful and deadly survivor of Shadow genocide. In the desperate race to warn Earth, he must face an apocalyptic showdown with the ultimate war machine--one capable of killing an entire world . . .
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Bad choice for a writer.......2007-08-17
This only gets two stars because it at least is drawn from a very good tv movie. Otherwise it wouldn't even get that.
While the tv movie was excellent, the book was a disappointment. At least with many of the other novels, you got a richness and added depth to the story - Peter David's work is one great example.
Sheckley, by comparison, adds nothing. I got the impression that he took a script for the movie and just reworked it into a novel. A bit of description here, a line or two there, some, like some bits about the technomages, pilfered straight from the B5 technomage episode, only delivered clumsily as an attempt at narrative exposition.
If anything, it reminded me of when I was an immature kid in jr. high, and pressed for time made the big mistake of copying the World Book description of the brain for a paper, only changing it a little bit to try and call it my own. The result was clearly a poor copy of the original. And so is this book. If he had found a program that could take a script and alter and replace the script directions with "he said"s and reworked descriptions, it couldn't have been any worse.
It might be worth getting if you want to have a full set of B5 books, but I can almost guarantee, you'll only read it once.
Peter David's books, on the other hand, can be read again and again.
Fine Novelization of TV Show.......2001-06-15
This is a well written adaptation of the screen play for the episodes which cover the beginning of the Drakh war and the transition from B5 to the new series.
Excellent lead in movie to a exellent series.......2000-09-27
This book is the novelization of the movie which led into Crusade. The plot carries straight through and leave you breathlessly waiting for the next page. Sci-Fi at its best!
The weakest of the B5 movie novelizations.......1999-10-22
The only reason I decide to read a movie novelization is to see what additional material(internal dialogue, additional scenes) the author injects into the project. Peter David did a great job with "In the Beginning" of expanding on the film and really giving us material that could've been there if not for time constraints.
Sheckley brings nothing interesting into "A Call to Arms" that enhances the story and much of the inner dialogue doesn't even seem like the characters.
You might as well just watch the movie again if the basic story appeals to you.
Great!.......1999-10-15
I have to say that this book is great, unlike what I did with Thridspace I read this book after I saw the movie. It is a quick read and if you are a hard core fan of Babylon 5 you will eat this one up like cadny. I knew that there were some things about the Drazi and because of that I zero into that thing. But what they didn't tell me was the little thing about Dureena while she was on the station. Do you a favor or a treat go and buy this book.
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Accompanying the brand new second edition of the award-winning A Call to Arms Babylon 5 space combat miniatures game, the B5 ACTA 2nd Ed. Fleet Book contains the comprehensive data necessary to play any of the major and iconic racial fleets of the Babylon 5 universe. The Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime and League of Non-Aligned Worlds have all their ship types and fleets described, along with their game statistics. Also included are fleet lists for the ancient races Shadow, the Vorlons and the Drakh, as well as expanded information on the fleets of specific League races, such as the Brakiri, the Vree, the Abbai, the Pak'ma'ra and the Gaim. There are even specific notes for older fleets (Dilgar), specialised fleets (Psi Corps) and generic Raider fleets.
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The eagerly-awaited second edition of the award-winning A Call to Arms Babylon 5 space combat miniatures game is finally arriving. Throughout the station's turbulent history, armed fleets have enacted the harsher policies of their governments. Whether you wish to command an intrepid EarthForce Expeditionary Fleet, a high-tech Minbari taskforce or a cunning Centauri raider group, this rulebook provides you with up-to-date rules to play out your favourite Babylon 5 space battles... or take to the stars and create new legends in the dark.
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Game book.
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A Call To Arms Rules Supplement #4 crucially expands Mongoose's Babylon 5 space combat game, providing new and exciting alternatives for players eager to add to what is already being hailed as a classic space combat game.
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Now available in paperback, this bestselling book presents a new framework for understanding the dynamic forces at work in human affairs -not only in business, but also in personal lives, education, and even geopolitics. Focusing on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques, Spiral Dynamics synthesizes changes such as increasing cultural diversity, powerful new social responsibility initiatives, and the arrival of a truly global marketplace.Ideal for managers, consultants, and strategists, this inspiring book adds power and precision to the understanding of human value systems and twenty-first century leadership. It draws UK biologist Richard Dawkins ' concept of "memes " and Clare W. Grave's 'Level of Existance Theory' to lay out a very specific toolkit for managing the deepest differences in people. The authors' concept of MEMES represents a new element in the Science of Memetics and why ideas resonate or not. Spiral Dynamics demonstrates how, by applying the right tools at a base level rather than to surface symptoms, any bright, curious human being can begin, quite simply, to change their world.
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Makes sense out of things that didn't make sense.......2007-10-01
The model presented about how the paradigms of thinking and how value memes develop over time in a person, organization, or society are brilliantly insightful. This book should be required reading for anyone running a company or organization of any size. The insights that can be gleaned are significant (at least in the lines of development in which one if far enough along oneself).
This is not at all an "easy" book to read. It takes time and thinking, and is probably best read in parallel with a few other people and discussed regularly along the way. I read this book along with another CEO, and a PhD psychologist who specializes in working with family-owned businesses.
--Lee
A New Way of Understanding the World .......2007-07-13
It may not be the "answer to everything" but Spiral Dynamics helps to put a context around why people act in certain ways when presented with certain life conditions. Using the theory of memetics (idea viruses), spiral describes the evolution of humans as a progression from one value system to another along a double helix spiral. Pitched to those in management or leadership, Spiral Dynamics offers insights as to why some people need traditional or hierarchical or ordered or opportunistic or caring or project based workplaces depending on their value meme. The text can be stilted and academic at times and the introduction is confusing, however there are some great insights and well worth reading if you are interested in finding the answers to everything! Pity the colour plates from the hardcover were not replicated in the paperback seeing how Spiral Dynamics relies on the use of colour descriptors.
Brilliant Idea.......2007-07-11
I first heard of Spiral Dynamics when I went to hear Don Beck speak at the Dallas Philosopher's Forum. He was one of the worst speakers I ever heard -- but his ideas were so incredible, so brilliant, that they shined through the poverty of his delivery. When I then went out to buy the book, I encountered the same problem: brilliant ideas, poor delivery. But the ideas are so good, it is work struggling your way through this book just to get the ideas.
The idea is this: thinking and societies exist at different levels of complexity, with new forms of psychoosocial complexity emerging as lower levels become oppressive. It fits well the latest complex systems paradigm in science that takes into account emergence, information, time and process, and fractal geometry. More, it maps extremely well on to the emergentist theory of time developed by J.T. Fraser in books such as "Time, the Familiar Stranger" and "Time, Conflict, and Human Values" and in Frederick Turner's latest book "Natural Religion". The nested hierarchy. evolutionary, emergentist view of nature is THE new paradigm. This and Fraser's works are excellent introductions to these ideas.
The Emperor Has No Clothes.......2007-05-21
A very interesting developmental theory taken WAY to far. The ideas expressed here could have been presented as a helpful extension of the work of psychologist Abraham Maslow and others. Instead, they are framed as comprehensive theory of morality itself, marketed to managers (!) and consultants (!!), as 'leadership lit' no less. It's as if Nietzsche wrote "how-to" books for his developmentally superior ubermensch.
However, the authors have an ace up their sleeve. Spiral Dynamics defines two tiers of human development and pretty much anyone who agrees with the theory is automatically classified as a 'tier two spiral wizard.' Pretty cool- but those who read The Emperors New Clothes as a child might feel a bit uneasy about all of this. It turns out, however, that they feel this because they are still "first tier." Similarly, fans of the work of Karl Popper could see this internal dismissal of external criticisms as the surest sign of non-falsifiable oogy-boogy flim-flam, but again we are assured that that is not the case here. We are not actually bad for thinking this way- just developmentally limited. We are destined to live in the clutches of the 'mean green meme' in the hope of someday bowing to the superior functionality of the philosopher kings and their consulting affiliates.
And kings they are! It turns out there is a heck of a political agenda here. "Wizards," it seems, are instantly able to see solutions to systemic problems- and they need not take seriously the niggling and limited opinions of the lesser-tiered, except to figure out how to win them over. They are "big-picture" sorts, again like Nietzsche's supermen, busy moving the universe forward. They have a duty to run things in this chaotic world. Call it the "Turquoise Man's Burden." You see, these "Wizards" inherently tend to know best and to question their judgment is to betray an almost endearing naiveté. To point out that this is essentially what Plato had in mind when he wrote The Republic 2300 years ago, would, I suspect, be a faux pas. While the idea has yet to really work -and has led to more than a few revolutions- apparently its time has yet again come. From this standpoint, it is interesting that about half of this "developmental theory" is devoted to techniques for shilling ideas to the lesser-tiered.
As someone who grew up in Boulder, Colorado all I can think is that this functional superiority must surely account for the absolutely stunning moral, institutional and financial successes of the city's Integral Institute, which set out to be a sort of "Mensa" for all the lonely "spiral wizards". That it all snowballed into lawsuits and acrimony is only a sign of the sheer incomprehensibility of their greatness.
The bottom line: Much of the developmental theory is actually really good but absolutely ruined by the decision to conflate it with self-help pabulum for the self-righteous and cultish. Two-star stuff.
Finally, something that begins to put things together.......2007-05-13
Spiral Dynamics will give you an edge in assessing people and situations. I am a professional legal mediator. I have found the theories in this book to be of immense help to me in understanding how to approach people and problems in the legal world. I have not read a great deal about the application of Spiral Dynamics in the legal world. I frankly don't think there's a lot out there, and their web site is frankly short on guidance concerning the application of Spiral Dynamics theory in legal mediation and negotiations. I have nevertheless considered approaches to many mediation problems against the background of information I gleaned from this text. I am rather amazed how simply adjusting the language of the mediation to the particular meme-level (or color) of the client suddenly opens the door to progress in communications and the chance to ultimately find common-ground between warring parties. Someone definitely needs to write a follow-up text with practical suggestions as to the application of this theory to mediation and negotiations in the legal world. Lawyers are increasingly turning to mediation as a way of resolving disputes. Someone could make a small fortune teaching lawyers how to utilize these theories not only in negotiations and mediation but also in jury selection in courtroom trials. Oh man, the possibilities are staggering, and lawyers will pay for this kind of knowledge.
Anyway, the writing is interesting, anectodal and fun to read. I would recommend the book to anyone interested in figuring out why no matter how hard you try, the guy next door just doesn't seem to "get it." It also explains why the political vision and understanding of some politicians seems to go right over some people's heads and that of other politicians just leaves you shaking your head.
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