[Master Belisarius]

Hi Warlord!
I was testing the Minbari AI, and have some observations. Of course that you can agree or not, but here are:

First, the positive ones.
1) They expand very fast.
2) They can amass really big fleets, because their ship designs are cheap to maintain (the DUC cannons are really cheap!).
3)If they can survive the early game, they can research very fast (I think that you have designed this race for big maps and 5 or 10 starting planets).


The negative (of course that in my view).

1) They research very early in the game, Applied Research II and Applied Research III. It mean that in games with small maps and a few starting planets, they will take a loooong time researching these techs... and then, during this time, they are an easy prey for aggressive races (for example, the Rage, the Pyrochette, the Klingon, Romulan and several other TDM races).

2)I think that the DUC cannons are a weak weapon against ships with PPB, Organic Weapons, Temporal Weapons, etc. I saw a fleet of 25 Minbari ships (Destroyers, Light Cruisers and Cruisers), defeated by 4 Romulan Light Cruisers!

Later in the game, I saw Minbari ships with Ripper Beams and Incinirator Beams. These weapons are ok, but have a really short range. It mean that fighting against races with Engine Damaging weapons (like the Pyrochette or the Aquilaeian), they can't do anything.

3) They start to research the Religious tech, after a lot of turns. It mean that they can't take advantage from the cool Shirines, during a long time.