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Fun fact: guy who created and narrated this show, completely reinvented himself and became this sort of celebrity born-again Christian composer/conductor (and dyed his hair blonde) Yeah-I know-my first post here since ages (probably a decade)

One of the best sitcoms ever, IMO. Here is a clip of one of the briefings.

Guy Siner who played Gruber also voiced "imperial officers" in several Star Wars games (he made briefings in TIE Fighter). And this is something you can't unhear.

Lieutenant Gruber from Allo Allo in TIE Fighter CD was even better! :)

IIRC when the Intrepid is destroyed (though it never happened to me in those missions) automatically you get "your carrier has been destroyed" message with restart, load, continue options.

I don't have time right now to replay the game, but on checking game guides I think it *could* be possible to replicate "Hellcat tractored in" and "ejection pod tractored in" endings by loosing the Intrepid (or ejecting) in Masa 3 (after defection) or Silenos 1a missions, but that still leaves...

There is video for this scene on DVD version - side 1, file SC_3670C.vob, there are also variants for Banshee (SC_3670A.vob) and ejection pod (SC_3670B.vob). File SC_3670D.vob is for today's storyboard, with Blair brought before Paulson (but the scene is filmed from different angle). I remember...

Some suggestions... The Duellists - first movie by Ridley Scott, adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel (itself based on real events) about two french officers duelling through all napoleonic wars Task Force - 1949 movie with Garry Cooper, fictional account of development of US carrier tactics (I...

Speaking of X-Wing... This mission where you escort Rapiers flown by technicians - I vaguely remember similar mission in B-Wing campaign. Anyway, thanks for the great game - its one of the best mods I have ever played! I'll try to write some more thoughts about Standoff in a few days.

I've read few years back about Russian pilot in Uganda service, who after drinking with some people decided to show them some aerobatic maneuvers. His MiG-21 crashed into Lake Victoria.

Without Wing Commander: 1. Civilization 2. Betrayal at Krondor 3. TIE fighter 4. Rome: Total War (Europa Barbarorum mod) 5. The Witcher

Joshua's Dragon's Droppings thread is even better :p Nine years pass, world changes around you, but this Chip/Joshua/whatever always returns to post same insane ideas. It's weird, strange for sure but on the other hand maybe, I don't know, encouraging? That no matter what, some things stay...

"Distant Guns: Russian Japanese war" and "Jutland" are based on the same engine, and combine both operational and tactical levels of sea warfare. I haven't played them, so I can't tell if they are good or bad. New version of Carriers at War is quite good in capturing essence of carrier vs...

Actually Admiral Hipper class heavy cruisers (and Baltimore class also) were larger and heavier then Deutschland class ships. "Pocket battleship" was just a nickname, and calling this ships battlecruisers is a huge overstatement - they've displaced just 14-16000 tonnes, while Repulse displaced...

Yeah of course you're right. I've read recently that sloppy ammunition handling rather than inadequate armor was responsible for the loss of three british battlecruisers at Jutland, so it was more matter of crew performance then technical deficiencies. Best way to rate a ship (or a class of...