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Wow. Pretty harsh. I can't quite figure out what their problem is... really. The bit about WC copying LucasArts is especially silly. I like the X-Wing/TIE fighter games as much as the next person, but they were pretty consistently chasing Origin through the entire 90's when it came to making...

Having actually worked on big, multi-million dollar projects with both Lockheed and Boeing, I can attest that their bureaucratic and contract requirements are every bit as onerous as the U.S. governments, and in some case more so (big companies' IP lawyers and lawyers worried about liability...

The sad thing is that I'm not sure we could get back there today. At least, not easily. We've lost a lot of the technology. Manned space travel is one of the few technologies that we've taken a step backwards in the last 30 years.

Never understood why this would be the case. The Kilrathi didn't keep any plans of the Sivar or the PAG? All the scientific, engineering, and technological know-how was lost to them? All their scientists and engineers who worked on it were dead? Keep in mind, for a weapon of that scale...

For that matter, did anyone else think it rather cavalier of Blair and Decker to just return to the Intrepid after visiting Telamon? Even if they were "genetically acceptable" (as they obviously were, or they would be dead...Sosa certainly implies such), how do they know that they weren't...

There's one important distinction, although I'm not sure it's absolutely established as fact. I had always believed that the Temblor bomb was *only* usable against tectonically unstable planets, and that that represented a fairly small percentage of inhabited planets (including Kilrah), and...

Really? Telamon was horrible, but it was one relatively small world on the fringe of colonized space. We don't know what it's original population was before GenSelect hit, but the impression is certainly that it was smaller than some of the big core worlds (either of the worlds in Sirius, for...

I don't know of any specific ones I could list off the top of my head, but there's got to be lots. For the Civil War, at least, you could probably start with any of the numerous non-fiction books that have been written about it, and look at their citation list. The ones I have read very...

The Kilrathi seemed to go through a fundamental shift in design outlook between WC1 and WC2. With the exception of the two "super heavies"--the Gratha and the Jalthi--the Kilrathi fighters in WC1 are all extremely nimble and yet incredibly under-armed. Even the Krant (a terribly bizzarre...

Wow. Those prices are something else. I was lucky--I bought my first copies secondhand from a good friend who had basically everything and was looking to move on for some reason. I got WC1, SM1+2, WC2, SO1+2, and the WC2 speech pack for $50. All in good condition. And I still have them all...

The numbers can't possibly be seconds per circle, because then less is better, but we consistently see more maneuverable ships having higher values (Rapier 10/10/10 > Hornet 8/9/8 > Scimitar 6/6/7 > Raptor 6/5/6. Salthi 14/12/22 > Hhriss 12/10/15 > Dralthi 10/14/10 > Krant 7/10/7 > Jalthi 7/7/7...

Or...Blair could have been KIA sometime in those 10 years, and not been arround in WC3 because of it. For all we know, Jazz's treachery might have saved his life. :-) Blair wasn't indestructible--in fact, he was shot down durin gthe Battle of Earth. If that happens anywhere else, maybe he is...

I voted for Jamison. Spoilers below. Haven't watched Academy yet (or played the game), nor have I got my hands on Freedom Flight, and the WCM traitor was essentially taken out of the as-shown movie, right? Among the others, I think it's Jamison hands down. Jazz's treachery caused the loss...

Some spoilers here. Speaking of the GOG WCIV, I noticed something interesting when I played through. The scene where Seether kills Paulsen seemed to be edited...or rather censored. I don't remember what it was like on my original play through on the CD dos version, but on YouTube the videos...

Agree with your general thought, but your analogy is flawed. The Manhattan project was not fundamentally designed to rain mass destruction down on Japan, as the Behemoth and T-bomb were designed to do on Kilrah. The Manhattan project was intended to keep us abreast with Germany's attempts to...

Haven't read Freedom Flight yet, but I had always thought the bit in SO2 where Thrakhath escapes and the *knocks Hobbes out* instead of killing him was a bit odd...until I heard about the personality overlay. Then it made sense. Until then I had wondered, if Hobbes had really betrayed the...

Just finished my GOG WCIV, and Saga is my next game-playing project planned. I'm excited! One question, though. I notice there's a patch out for it (1.1.0.7822). If I'm just downloading the game install file now, does it include the fixes that are in the patch already, or do I need to...

I think the "official" explanation is that technology keeps evolving... in pre-Action Stations, they have phase shields, in AS they figure out how to make torpedoes penetrate through PS, they extend that technology to guns and fighter missiles in WC1, then in WC2 there's an advance in PS that...

There's a great quote in a C.S. Lewis novel about an explorer who visits and alien world, and is lost in how different everything is. Then he is reassured when encountering a boat, because the boat is shaped much like a terrestrial one. Then he realizes "what else COULD a boat be shaped like"...

I think it's in the WC4 game guide. But just try it. I fiddled with it a little. Slide in WC4 seems to work a little differently from WC3, where CAPS toggled slide on and off...in WC4 pressing and holding CAPS puts you in slide, and releasing CAPS turns off the slide. I'm 95% certain that...