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Ouch. Well, starlord - while I think you're entitled to your opinion, even if it sounds like a simple and stubborn knee-jerk reaction, consider this - You don't have to like Arena, but trashing it simply for being what it is is a little rude, especially if you've done no investigation...

I hope for a cross-platform release. Certainly, the greater exposure and accessibility that comes with a console release is too valuable for the series to pass up... but being able to afford an Xbox aside, some part of me still wants the option to play WC with a keyboard. Old habits die very...

Yeah, seriously - go and read Star*Soldier. It doesn't matter whether you have an Xbox or are interested in playing Arena at all - if you're a WC fan, Star*Soldier is a great read. They really went back to the style of the old WC manuals, back to the style of an age where instruction manuals...

S*S page 4: "Tungsten Rush ... Tungsten has become especially precious in recent years, as it is an essential component of the advanced ceramic alloys used for tactical space armors. With the massive depletion of the Nephilim War, many manufacturers have reverted to using layers of...

Better to hear it from Freyers than Reismann, I guess.

I think it was 3 neutrons up front and 2 in a rear turret. But yeah, Grikaths seemed more dangerous than Jalkehi. Difficult target profile, not all that slow... I know that the stats say they're slow and not very maneuverable, but they seemed to fly pretty aggressively. And they seemed to...

agreed. "no repercussions" takes too much out of the equation to make it a meaningful question to me. if "no repercussions" includes "no personal sacrifice" and "no effect on others" there wouldn't be much point in doing anything. No good can be done and no harm can be done. From the poll...

Well, by WC1 standards, the Raptor is crazy fast for a heavy fighter. Amazingly fast compared to the Gratha and Jalthi. The only Kilrathi fighter that the Raptor is slower than is the Salthi. The Raptor deserves a fan thread of its own. I never got the sense that the Confed fighters of WC1...

Yes, it is - the Sao Paolo has one surviving critical component, one of its engines. (The bridge and the other engine have already been torpedoed). Fly to the back of the Sao Paolo and concentrate more on intercepting inbound torpedoes and less on taking down enemy fighters. It doesn't pay to...

I don't have an XBOX 360, but from the gameplay footage I've seen - yeah, 80 dumbfires. S*S suggests that the dumbfires use Dragonfly technology - those rocket pods from Prophecy. The Tigershark is about 14 meters in length and carries 8 missiles and 36 rockets, and it's a Prophecy-era fighter...

Yikes. Should almost count as a kill in WC1 then. Many times I came home with those things blown off my ship... So much for using those afterburners.

Wow. I understand you're not quite done with texturing and lighting... but she's pretty ugly. I always preferred the sleek, light design of the WC2 Rapier over the SWC Rapier. But ugly isn't necessarily bad. The Scim's pretty ugly too! This Vanguard is bulkier and dirtier-looking than...

What Dundradal said. Try the Confed gauntlet until you go up against Rapiers, and you'll see why. The AI improvements apply to all pilots, friendly and enemy. But a Rapier II is easily more than a match for just about anything the cats have. Since your wingmen fly better ships than the...

Cool. Nice to know, then, that the Scim's resilience/core strength isn't entirely imaginary.

I couldn't believe how many fighters that Snakeir carried. It's not quite endless, though - I'm pretty sure that on at least one occasion that we eventually ran it clear out of complement. But nearly every time, the end of the battle is timed quite neatly with my last burst of afterburner...

Our perceptions of the Scimitar's toughness might be influenced by the extra leeway often afforded the player. In Prophecy, WC3, and WC4, the hero's ship has higher core strength than normal. I don't know if this was also true for WC1 and WC2. But computer-controlled Scimitars might have...

They did feel a generation apart, but in a good, solid way. Energy weapons? Deflector shields? All these flashy, newfangled things are good for the stayin' power an' all... but buckets of lead and durasteel work as well as they ever have for takin' down cats. Always have. Always will.

Hey, welcome!

We've had so many fighter "gripes" threads here that we even covered the fighters almost everyone likes. So let's turn things around. Tell everyone why you love the Scimitar! Favorite stories, favorite missions, closest calls, best moments in WC Academy or the novels, anything you've seen in...

*blank gaping stare*