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The grittier lightsaber battles make a lot of sense. In the prequels, the Jedi were using "ancient weapons for a more civilized time" and practiced highly refined swordfighting styles developed, refined, and handed down over generations. Obi Wan, Vader, and to a lesser degree Luke (who was...

I second (third...fifth...Nth?) the GoG recommendation. When I revisited the games, I used the GoG versions and they all worked without a hitch. Well...almost. Had to tweak a few settings to optimal, but it was fairly painless. I also second the idea of looking at some of the excellent...

If I recall correctly, there is a mention later, after she is "fired", where she is taking some kind of legal action against the President. So she continued to do her best to cause problems and disrupt the process. But we never see her "on screen" again, and I don't recall any regret from her.

I wouldn't be surprised if the carriers didn't carry missiles. Making a jack-of-all-trades ship that can do everything is not efficient (that's presumably why we see most of the ships are specialized ships like cruisers and carriers and lighter escorts; only a very few are "do everything" ships...

It's pretty analogous to the problems we have with our modern naval force disposition. We're investing billions building a small number of huge Gerald Ford class supercarriers to project our air superiority; and adversaries are investing in cheap tactics to bring them down. Some interesting...

Wow, thanks! I remember the first post (but couldn't find it); it was in response to when I brought up this issue years ago, but I couldn't remember what the answer was, other than it was not satisfying, as it didn't explain how Blair was able to pick up his body. (As an aside...I was kind of a...

This is a little off topic, but it's something I've wondered about. I was always unclear about what ship Iceman was serving on when he was killed. The Tiger's Claw is the obvious answer. But because Prophecy places Hawk on the flight roster with Iceman and Blair when Iceman was killed, this...

Overall, I have to give WC3 the nod, but WC4 has a scene that makes my top 5 list of best moments in sci fi ever: As the BWS Intrepid is closing on the TCS Vesuvius approaching the Sol jump point, Tolwyn orders the Vesuvius to come about, much to the surprise of his helmsman. McDowell delivers...

More a comment on the general negative reviews out there than this one specifically, but I always thought that criticism of Lilliard were misplaced. While Prinze couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, in Wing Commander or any other movie, I was actually very impressed by Lilliard. So much...

I beg to differ. Well, I guess, technically, this may be the world's most *powerful* laser, by the scientific definition of "power" (energy transferred per time, or rate of energy transferred), but that definition of power is not what the layman thinks of when they hear "powerful". What most...

Well, selection bias may be working against you. No one is going to post YouTube videos of them sucking. They could try the mission ten times and fail the first nine of them, and they would only post the tenth, successful time. That said, the difficulty of WC1 was strongly dependent, in the...

Very cool! Thanks, Klavs! Would it be difficult to do this same view from the top? And yet more evidence that the 22 km length of the Hvar'kann is just silly, however canonical it is.

Hmmm, I seem to be having trouble with this too. I'm trying to run the GOG version of Prophecy with the enhancement pack. When I execute the steps that AD outlines above and try running Prophecy, it asks me to Insert CD#1 as soon as the game tries to execute. Obviously, I don't have the...

OK, thanks for the responses. I know I'm still hoping for, one of these days, an "all in one" finalized release package with a single install file, but till then I'll keep playing the game as it is!

I was just wondering...are the Standoff folks still supporting the game (i.e. fixing bugs, updating to work as Windows and DirectX, etc. evolve, and so forth), or have they all moved on to other things? Just asking because I love Standoff...it's in the running for my favorite Wing Commander...

Here's a (perhaps crazy) explanation for the HF-66... Is it possible that it was HF because it was originally developed by someone else (i.e. not Confed), and just adopted by the Confed Navy? Early on we see "CF" for "Confederation fighter (presumably), and "KF" for "Kilrathi fighter". Maybe...

OK, compiling it so far, with my own, rhyming version of G and H: A is for Arrow, that flies so fast. B is for Broadsword, with armor to last. C is for Centurion, a price quite steep D is Drayman, who's trust you keep E is for Excalibur, a ship built to last and F is for Ferret, which...

A silly challenge for the community... So I've noticed that a number of folks in the community here, like myself, have recently (i.e., within the last couple of years) had kids. I don't know about you, but I'm up to my elbows in reading children's stories. One of the worst at getting stuck...

I'm not super familiar with Action Stations and that timeframe. Is there any "official" art of material that tells us what the Yorkshire looked like, or is NinjaLA's picture above purely his conception as an artist?

Interesting that they don't like the gameplay. I always have thought that WCIV had by far the best gameplay of any of the WC games, and certainly is lightyears better than anything LucasArts put out. The excellent AI was part of that, the flight dynamics made posible by afterburners and the...