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Drazi Redux: Reimagining the Drazi in A Call to Arms, Part 4 - Balance Pass

About a year ago I decided to compose a Redux for the Drazi fleet in A Call to Arms to make it slightly more fun to play. As written, the Drazi fleet feels to me like a low effort attempt to meet a deadline and has some massive weaknesses that make it nigh on unplayable against a lot of factions. Thats not to say there arent some standout ships, the Patrol level Sleekbird is, for its cost, an incredible choice and the Warbird, provided you can line up your shot, can match the Centauri Vorchan, in this players opinion the best ship in the game, shot for shot with an even chance of emerging victorious. The key changes I made were to add some non-boresighted weapons to the ships to make the fleet slightly less punishing to maneuver. Change the weapons to offer a selection of abilities and ranges, and to swap the Warbirds and Sunhawks over in regards to their Priority levels to be in line with the Babylon 5 Wars ship stats. in B5W the Warbird is the older and thus less capable ship, with t...

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