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Blair thought that the Victory was a crappy assignment because it was to a second-line small carrier away from the main action--a major step down from the Confederation's former flagship, the Concordia. However, Tolwyn was hand-picking his best officers and pilots (Blair, Maniac, Hobbes, Eisen...

"Free" in this case doesn't mean "pay no money for it" as much as it means "The intellectual property owners still want to exert control even though they don't get money from you for it". That means that distributing without their permission is still taboo.

My preference would be for the personality overlay to have been reversed--that the Hobbes that we know be the "real" personality and the fanatically-loyal-to-Thrakhath side be the overlaid personality that was triggered by the "Heart of the Tiger" phrase. It would not only let Hobbes stay the...

We aren't told how massive the Stormfire bullets are--they could be anywhere from rifle-bullet sized to a kilogram each. Pliers does say in so many words that he salvaged a few working Stormfire guns, and that the main reason that they were withdrawn from active service was because the range was...

As Maniac said, you can detonate the Mace manually by shooting it while it is in flight. Does the splash damage not trigger when the Mace directly impacts an enemy fighter-sized craft? I'm pretty sure that it does trigger when you manually shoot it. Going from the Sabre to the Morningstar, you...

The Vindicator seems very much like it was created to be the standard "do-everything" craft--it's an atmospheric-capable fighter-bomber, not quite nimble enough to be a dedicated fighter but not heavily protected enough to be a dedicated bomber (note the use of "cheaper" Lasers as fore and aft...

Stars do move around compared to each other--a hundred million years from now, the stars that are now our neighbors will be a couple thousand light years away (and the whole galaxy will have gone through a half-rotation). However, it will take tens of thousands of years for neighboring stars to...

But to be serious, none of the releases of Privateer and Righteous Fire required Windows 95 or later, so they literally DO all run on DOS (or DOS emulation such as DOSBOX).

In WC2, only torpedoes can harm the Concordia, so it is safe as long as you don't leave any of the Grikaths alone long enough for them to get a torpedo lock.

Remember that the Sabre's shields are thin but regenerate fast, so you should dodge as soon as you start taking hits and then try to get back into shooting position.

It seemed to me like the Vindicator was their "normal" militia fighter/bomber that had been in service already, but the needs of the conflict and their sudden declaration of independence meant that they needed both something faster and cheaper (the Banshee) and something heavier (the Avenger)...

The Broadsword is slow, but compared to the enemies it faces, it has the strongest shields and armor of any flyable craft in the whole Wing Commander series. It can take a few hits, as long as you don't get too complacent.

The Bearcat is also the fastest craft in WCIV, in addition to having somewhat superior weapons and shields/armor to the Hellcat (or indeed to any non-torpedo-carrying craft in WCIV). The wide spacing of the guns is the only really sucky thing about it--if you are not going to be using torpedoes...

Too bad--MT-32 was possibly the best computer audio of its era.

Tolwyn dislikes Blair for at least two reasons. First, he believed that it was Blair's incompetence that caused the loss of the Tiger's Claw--the attack came from the side that Blair was patrolling, and Blair's explanation was unbelievable (Kilrathi stealth fighters that had no other evidence...

Yeah, I was annoyed that Blair's entire squadron except for Maniac and Vagabond were KIA in the book. Sure, Cobra died in the game no matter what, but Flash, Vaquero, and Flint all died with none of them ejecting.

The Bearcat is cool except that its guns are so widely spaced that it's hard to get both port and starboard guns to hit a smaller enemy.

More likely it's due to wanting to charge different prices to different nations, which unfortunately is still allowed under current trade rules. They could for example charge Americans five dollars, Europeans five Euros, and British five pounds.

Yes, the size of the Hvar'kann and whether or not it actually matches the stats given in the literature has been the subject of much argument on this website, so let us not start it up again.

The "sneak past Ella" mission is quite tough if you are flying a Border Worlds craft instead of the Dragon or Bearcat. If you choose the Banshee, then you will have trouble shooting down enemies fast enough (it's faster to use the Leech cannons on the Longbows than to batter them down with the...