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I imagine some of it would have to do with what weapons work in atmosphere. In WC3 at least, a number of the gun types became ineffective in atmosphere. From memory, the Tachyon worked fine, but the Reaper theoretically didn't.

The obvious answer is : Yes, of course they would have made a difference. Just look at the specs and they're way ahead of anything Confed had at the end of WC3. IF they were ready before the end of WC3 then yes, they could have swung the balance a little more towards Confed's side. One or...

Well, if you run with the Privateer concept, a Jump drive is simply another optional extra. On a standard carrier fighter, they are a waste of space. The fighter is obviously going to spend 99.9% of its time operating in the same system as its base carrier. Fitting a jump drive would be...

I always liked the Privateer ones. Not really the purple mist floating in space, but the transit sequence you get when you jump.

If the Claw has been rubbing up against the Kilrathi for a while, her fighter complement could be well down on usual. That would also explain the 'reluctance' of the pilots to talk about lost friends.

How do you get that???? The flashpak is designed to destroy ships (and their crew) by incinerating everything inside. If it were deliberately designed to cook/boil/torture the crew slowly then I would agree that its use was immoral. But NOWHERE have I seen anything that the pak was designed...

Well, I don't recall seeing any proof that the flashpak CANNOT be used against bug ships, except that we never do use them. From memory, the flashpak was ineffective against the Versuvius' hull because of the TYPE of armor, rather then the thickness (perhaps it did not transmit heat very...

Re: Huh? My opinion/argument is that IF the flashpak is no longer in the Confed arsenal (and I would suggest that just because we don't get to play with it in Prophecy doesn't mean that it has been abandoned), it is because of other weaknesses, NOT because public opinion deems it immoral...

Fine. Then I'll return to a slightly earlier post. All I'm saying is that the Torpedo, just like the flashpak, CAN be used against any target, be it civilian or otherwise. Like the torpedo, I doubt that in general use the flashpak would be used against civilian targets. That Seether and...

Where in the world did you come up with this concept? Who in their right mind would design a weapon to specifically not target civilian ships? I can just see the torpedo designers at work - "Great work on that torpedo boys. Now let's add a locking mechanism that takes 20 seconds to lock...

Umm ... would what be possible? Igniting all the oxygen and leaving the people alive (for a brief while)? No. The whole point of 'burning' is that something (e.g. the people) combine with the air. If you removed the oxygen and heated us, we would 'boil' rather then burn. If given...

Bug fixing. The real question should be "Why didn't they take them OUT" :P

Umm, well, technically oxygen does not ignite. Combustion is the oxidization of a material (combination of a material with oxygen) producing various byproducts including gas, heat and light. Rapid oxidization (fire) produces large amounts of heat and light. So, fire is basically a rapid...

Well, given the variety of agonzing and prolonged ways of dying from chemical, biological or radiation poisoning, or just asphyixiating in the cold vacuum of space, I'll take the relatively quick flashpak any day. I'll happily admit there are better ways to go. Personally I'm aiming for "in...

Not meaning to be rude, but I feel it is difficult to classify a weapon, particularly a target-specific one such as the Flashpak as 'immoral' or 'inhumane'. It is just another way (albeit unpleasant to us) way of killing people. Compared to the random and long-term effects of biological...

Have to disagree with that one. I think Blair shows that its USE (by the Black Lance against civilian transports) is immoral. I also didn't use it against the superbase (attacking the base, whether with the Flashpak or 'conventional' torpedoes seemed immoral to me). I/he had no qualms about...

A weapon is a weapon is a weapon. It is designed to kill, as quickly and as efficiently as possible. That is its purpose. To me, the Flashpak is not an inhumane weapon. Conventional explosives could take off a limb, leaving you slowly bleeding to death, or just puncture the hull, leaving...

Not necessarily. The Raptor and Thunderbolt have similar masses, but the Thunderbolt (naturally) has significantly greater weaponry and shielding systems. The weight saving, and power for the shields and guns obviously must come from somewhere. Note also that the Raptor, was considered quite...

No, it is not an 'English' word, but its use is so widespread that it has become an 'accepted word', at least in military (and military wannabe :) ) circles. Pretty much the way everyone knows that a U-Boat is a German sub. There are a lot of expressions for anti-aircraft fire, and "Flak" is...

Okay, on my worst list are - WC1 : Knight WC2 : Angel (yeah, I know. Before you all kick up a stink, I nominated Angel because there is this one mission when Concordia is hiding in the asteroids and you fly with Angel to take out a Kat station defended by a bunch of Sartha I think. I...