Dundradal
Frog Blast the Vent Core!
Hmm - I know of a few places in MA where we could do that
Very true the two of us are what 20 miles apart at most? (Woburn to Waltham)
Hmm - I know of a few places in MA where we could do that
In WC3, Blair serves, at least techincally, as a CAG, doesn't he?
Actually we have concrete details on one, and fairly certain details on the other.
Did the attack happen too fast?
5 seconds from decloak to annihilation. Maybe enough time to say "What the.....KILRATHI FIGHTERS OFF THE POR"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfAoVX_VWWs
~~~. somehow, I never really took that cinematic at face value. If the cats could nail the Claw that easily at that point in time, they'd annihilate the Confed fleet and be walking on Terra within a month.
on the other hand, I wouldn't put it past Thrakath to waste a few awesome resources on one lousy strike, just to take out one carrier and the "heart of the tiger". Like father (with the sivar), like son... I'm surpised the Emporer didn't eventually have his grandson killed as well. Guess he got soft in old age. It cost him...
Very true the two of us are what 20 miles apart at most? (Woburn to Waltham)
~~~. somehow, I never really took that cinematic at face value. If the cats could nail the Claw that easily at that point in time, they'd annihilate the Confed fleet and be walking on Terra within a month.
I think this was as much of a test run as anything. The fact that it was the Tiger's Claw was a bonus for Thrakhath, and the intro is pretty self explanatory as to why they don't march on Earth within the month.
All they needed to do was decloak, fire their torpedoes and fly away -- that shouldn't have taken any longer than we saw in the intro. The problem for the Kilrathi is that the Strakha aren't an invincible weapon as much as they are a temporary sucker punch. Were stealth fighter attacks to continue then word would quickly spread and the Confederation would develop tactics and then technologies to deal with them.
But eventually the Strakha became widespread, and afaik, there were no special tricks to dealing with them. There is no "cloak detecting" technology
For whatever reason though, the Kilrathi never regularly employed Strakha's as bombers like they did with the Claw, even when everybody knew about them.
All we know is that there is no fighter mounted cloak detecting technology until we see it in WC4.
This said of a game where handwavium like "inertial dampeners" explains why fighters turn like airplanes in spite of a lack of an atmosphere to push against, or how tachyons travel slower than light...