The Dragon's B5 Wars Gaming Page!

Babylon 5 is one of the greatest Science Fiction sagas ever to hit television and arguably the best. It is a "saga" with a 5 year story arc not a series of episodes strung together that are lacking in continuity and whose timeline and history change every time a new episode or series is spun off.



B5 Wars is a Space Combat Simulation, Pen and Paper game based on the award winning series. It is similar to SFB (Star Fleet Battles) but the rules are less cumbersome and it is faster playing. Our group used to play SFB but the endless errata and argument over the rules made the game untenable.



After being introduced to the B5 Wars game system, we quickly found that the fans of the game were legion and industrious. THey were busily making SCSs (Ship Control Sheets) for various other universes such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape and Andromeda just to name a few. We generally prefer to play the Star Trek Universe ships and found that a work-aholic named Tyrel was busy converting most ships seen in the many episodes into B5 Wars SCSs. (See the excellent PLANETSIDE web link.)

As a side note, we have in the past played a "Play By E-Mail Game" called VGA Planets 3 that allowed you to play ships from the Star Trek Universe vs. ships from Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. Other games like Master of Orion had limited ability in this area if you applied mods to the game. There are also groups out there who are producing quality CGI movies of battles between Star Trek ships and Babylon 5 ships.



This web page will concentrate on providing support for the Star Trek ships conversions for B5 Wars as well as various other gaming aids.



05/05/2003 - Designed Opening Page and started looking at what SCSs could be included in the downloads page. Suggestions welcome!