Recent content by Farbourne

Thanks! So Iceman died (or at least was shot down) a month and a half after the Claw was destroyed, and at some point after that, Blair brings back his body. Given that timeline, Blair's comment about not flying a combat mission in 10 years isn't inconsistent even if flying the SAR mission...

The recent thread about Jazz got me (re)thinking about something. We all know the story of what happened to Michael "Iceman" Casey, from Hawk's stories to (the younger) Casey in Wing Commander Prophecy. After Hawk had a crisis of confidence, Iceman signed on as his wingman and flew with him...

“And I nearly did. Spirit was so easy... ...and I only had four to go...you, Angel, Paladdin and Maniac...” But what about Hawk? Why wasn’t Hawk on Jazz’s hit list? (I mean, is there an in Universe explanation for this? Obviously, Hawk’s character hadn’t been invented when WC2 was released).

So I just dug through the Game Guides on this website. If frequency of use matters, the most flown fighter (in terms of number of missions it's available in) in all of the 5 mainline games and their expansion is the Panther, at 41. But I don't think of the Panther as the "iconic" Wing...

Interesting. I can see the logic as (1) it's the first fighter the player ever flies, (2) it has a very recognizable shape, and (3) it is pictured (or at least its cockpit is) on the cover of the first game. However, it only appears in at most 13 missions, all in the first game and its...

Was thinking about various science fiction franchises involving starfighters (as I'm sure many of us here do), and about how most of them have an "iconic" fighter...a ship that kind of represents the franchise. If you were going to make a poster about the franchise, you'd probably put a picture...

Wait... someone had tried to staunch her wounds? That could only have been Hobbes... anyone else would have reported finding her injured. So he delivered a fatal blow to her, and then tried to give her medical care?

I don't think it's that crazy that there would be a TCS Gettysburg out there that wasn't a Gettysburg-class ship, and in service while there were still other Gettysburg-class ships also in service. The exact same thing happened with WWII aircraft carriers. Twice at least, that I can think of...

I was first introduced to Wing Commander in 1992, when a High School friend sold me this exact entire pack (WC1, SM1+2, WC2, SO1+2, and the speech pack) for $50 flat. (He'd bought the whole thing, liked it, but then moved on to X-Wing). Other than the boxes being a little flattened, everything...

Reason why I voted for the Lance (aka "Dragon") -- one word: Telamon.

I was pretty upset when Arena came out, mainly because it was released on a single platform. I had been a die hard Wing Commander fan since adolescence, but was a cash-strapped young adult who had just invested in a PS3 and wasn't about to buy an Xbox 360 as well, just for one game. I didn't...

To me the biggest mystery of WC3 is why they took the personality overlay video explanation out of the game. I know the given reason is "because there wasn't room on the CD", but it seems like you could have shortened up or eliminated some of the transitions cutscenes that we all turn off after...

Think of the difficulty spike as adding an in universe element…its supposed to have been 10 years since you flew a combat mission, and so naturally your character will be a bit rusty and missions will seem harder! :)

Neat work! I've successfully printed and painted models of the Arrow, Hellcat V, and Thunderbolt VII. All on my Ender 3 (but at a small scale). Having issues with the Longbow, though... I like doing everything in a single print rather than in pieces that need to be glued together, and for...

Those Rapier models are absolutely gorgeous. Question... I know the F-44A is the version we fly in Wing Commander I, and the F-44G is what flies off the Concordia in WC2 (and that we fly in Standoff?). Where are the F-44C and F-44E from?