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Not necessarily ... or perhaps ... to a certain extent. A large part of the increased life expectency is due to improved diet, hygiene, health care etc. which affects us all through our lives. In other words, we are 'getting older' later. It's not just about keeping us alive when we get...

Yeah, I'd make sure I was nowhere to be seen if Maniac was trying to hit on me too. Or maybe I'd be in the brig for trying to hit him back :D

AA Cruisers were used during WW2. The current day equivalent would be the Aegis cruisers (e.g. Ticonderoga), except they are equipped with missiles. If someones firing Mach 2 missiles at you, a gun has barely a few seconds to try to shoot it down.

It's simple mathematics. WC2 Broadsword : 3 Mass Drivers x 45cm damage / 0.3s refire rate = 450cm/s Priv Centurion : 4 Tachyons x 3.8cm damage / 0.4s refire rate = 38cm/s [/B] The Privateer Broadsword has thicker armor. I guess the question is what type? Tungsten, Plasteel, Durasteel...

Uhm. Maybe I'm just not too sure what your question was? The war with the Kilrathi is over. Confed reduced their homeworld to a pile of slag and they had surrendered unconditionally. Millions of people who have spent a great deal of their lives fighting are coming home from the war with no...

To answer that question, you just have to look at the Japanese in WWII. Now I personally have nothing against the Japanese, but some of the atrocities committed by them during the war were terrible. I'm sure that when the war ended there were a (perhaps small) number of people who felt we...

The real difference is in the weapon power. Military weapons (even from WC1&II) are much more powerful than civilian ones (Privateer) (see my previous posts). The three mass drivers on a WCII Broadsword give it a damage of nearly 12x a 4xTachyon Centurion. The Broadsword is also noted more...

Small correction ... -A Hellcat kicks a Centurion's ass -A Centurion kicks a Gemini Sector Broadsword's ass The Confed & Kilrathi ships are way underpowered in Privateer. WC Universe explanation - Gemini is a backwater hole, lightly guarded by the dregs of the Confed fleet. They are...

Nope. Because a military laser does nearly 5x the damage per hit and 7.5x the damage per second of a civilian (privateer) Tachyon. Military Laser : 18cm damage /0.25s refire = 72cm/s Civilian Laser : 2.5cm damage /0.30s refire = 8.3cm/s Military Tachyon : 70cm damage /0.35s refire =...

Well the 100mil is possibly/probably an exageration. Halcyon is merely reminding his pilot that they don't like pilots ejecting just 'cos their paint is scratched. They probably wouldn't complain too much if it was justified - better to lose a ship then a ship AND a fully trained pilot - just...

Well actually ... Check out the damage capacity : Centurion : 4xTachyon = 4x3.8cm/400ms = 38cm/s Hornet : 2xLaser = 2x18cm/250ms = 144cm/s Admittedly the Hornet has only 1/5th the armor of the Centurion, but the Arrow has 4x the Centurions armor while the T-Bolt is 6x the armor and deals...

Nice site. But I gotta ask what a planther is and why it has a squadron named after it? :D

But if you have fewer pilots then ships then its a lot of ships wasted on a scramble ... and a 30m, 20tonne fighter takes up a lot more of the limited room on a ship than a 1.8m, 75kg fighter pilot. In an emergency or alpha strike, you want the ship bare - every fighter airborne, not rotting in...

At least its something to do when you get sick of super-deforming her chest pixels :D

I dunno. That sounds VERY human to me.

Re: Help me LOAF!!! Matter/Anti-Matter reactors. Same way it works anywhere else. Radar is radio-waves, which work just fine in space. It's Sonar (sound) that won't work in space.

Nope. IIRC the Jump Drive is one of the few things that will transfer to your new ship.

Make a map. Use the Print Screen button if the game didn't come with one (mine didn't).

To be perfectly honest, the SWACS in WC is pretty pitiful. The Midway should have a couple of SWACS escorting her at all times. Any attacking bombers should be picked up by the SWACS long before they come into range of the Midway. Attacking fighters should have to fly through a hail of long...

No problem with that. A rookie would start in a lower squadron (Tigersharks & Piranhas). Then, when he (or she) is proven in battle, he gets promoted to a better squadron and fighter. Except it wouldn't happen overnight (someone has to be promoted to open a vacancy, or die while still leaving...