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WC2 memory: When using ITTS in WC2, did having the ITTS reticle in your crosshairs affect your shot trajectory? I think I remember the Sabre and Epee having shot convergence of a sort if and only if you'd managed to center the ITTS reticle when firing. Sometimes the shots would still miss, but...

Maybe the computer could say the 2nd half of this clip to Bradshaw when his ship gets nailed by a dumbfire.

Whoa, crap. And I thought Bitching Betty was bad enough.

Dammit. I hate having to sortie through launch tube 2.

For a ship design that's supposed to be a hundred years old, it sure acquits itself pretty well. Mass Drivers. Core Strength. What more do you really need? The Ferret's basically the same ship, trading missiles for a really serious afterburner. Both ships get lots of love around here.

My one real Scimitar gripe - the armor/shield indicator doesn't tell you how much front or aft armor you still have left. Sometimes it's good to know that. Other than that, I love the Scimitar and all of its shortcomings. Old, tough, long in the tooth - and still up for any challenge you'd...

Eh, I thought Trigger was just intended to be kind of a stock character stereotype, i.e. the local Dirty Harry Callahan with a little extra psychotic on the side. Iceman reminded me of Dirty Harry when I first "met" him in WC1, and I imagined that the gun he was always polishing in the mess...

It has to be relevant. assuming pilots of equal skill, a Vaktoth is not the equal of a Vampire. If we're going to equalize eras, then perhaps the question is how Darket and Dralthi IX variants from Arena stack up (if they can really be compared) against Tigersharks, Panthers and Vampires (or...

The BSG "Beyond the Red Line" mod for FS2 supposedly uses flight dynamics that allow the vipers and raiders to move a little more like the ships in the series. I don't know if that covers YPR acceleration, though, but it implies that maybe the system makes deeper use of quasi-inertia than the...

I didn't suggest that, and I wouldn't either after you pointed out to me in another thread that Angel's concern was situational (and that we still don't exactly know under what exact circumstances it's dangerous to fire, other than that low power is at least one part of the problem). I was...

Sorry, LOAF, I was speaking generally, not criticizing Tolwyn's decision to fire in that particular circumstance. Context matters, that's all I was trying to say.

Nothing I said is inconsistent with that.

Easy to maintain and easy to repair has value, also. If the Hellcat's simplicity allows it to be repaired and serviced quickly, it can sortie more often than a more complex fighter. Assuming the pilot can keep bringing it back, it can contribute more combat time than a trickier, more...

A little risk analysis is also important. If you're in a situation where using the PTC does risk the ship, you still do have to consider your other options first, especially if they don't cost you as much. Absent extreme context, a PTC shot that risks the Concordia and its fighter wings for a...

It must be cheap. Er, inexpensive. Even in wartime (which arguably, WC4 isn't quite) everyone has to work within a budget. The USAF isn't replacing all of its standing Eagles and Vipers with Raptors, after all, and probably wouldn't unless we get into a major conventional war against a...

Really? I thought those were only "our" complaints. I don't remember anything in the official fiction that suggested the Epee was as awful as I remember it being in WC2. The Academy manual mentioned two aces who died in Epee's but didn't directly blame the Epee for it.

1-shot kill: Maybe that claim was true as of WC2. Being capable of destroying any ship with a single shot can be different from being guaranteed a one-shot kill, after all. Since we've all seen the PTC kill a Fralthra in one shot, there's no inconsistency in the possibility that a Fralthra can...

Try the Ep4 Hornet - this has been done. Visually, the neutron bolts seem to fire from the tips of the Hornet's canards as opposed to its gun barrels. This does make the Hornet much more playable. Looks fine from the cockpit, looks a little weird on the models. Granted, no weirder than WC1...

I guess that depends on how the PTC inflicts its damage. I only saw the PTC used a few times in WC2, but every time I saw it hit a capship, it was a one-shot kill. I think someone around here mentioned that he once saw a PTC bolt fail to kill its target outright, but I have no way of verifying...

No, I guess I don't know for certain. Just from reading the Standoff threads, I'm guessing they won't be including any Raptors, as it was stated that the only reason the Raptor's in the game at all was because Eder happened to have made a model of it, and all the ado over the Raptor's scaling...