Question for WC war vets...

The Scimitar was God's gift to Confed pilots. And I'm not being sarcastic. The Dralthi II, on the other hand, was a death trap. Faster, just as well-armed, but with about as much shields and armour as an Epee.

That having been said, I remember that mission with two Snakeirs... aye, that was something. I didn't feel like tangling with those Hhriss, so I actually flew manually around them. Sent Jazz home, took out the two Snakeirs, only barely survived the escorts (didn't kill all of them, either), and ran off whimpering. Of course, I couldn't return home on autopilot, because I was out of AB fuel and thus wouldn't be able to get away from those Hhriss. Very long mission, that one. I made it home eventually, but it took absolutely ages.

Hmm... is it just me, or are the missions where you return with your fighter holding together on sticky tape and chewing gum, the most memorable missions of all?
 
Guys, you scare me. I hate the Scimitar (not as much as the Boradsword and the Hellcat though) and always thought everyone else also hates it. After all it was the only Confed ships that was retired during the game.
Okay its guns fired fast but it was so slow and its shield were not really good. I remember when you have to take out Bhurak Starkiller in a Scimitar, boy that was hard work.
And yes, missions in which you barely survive have the most vivid memories. Sadly in WC3 and further you do not see the damage your ship has taken and that took away a lot of the atmosphere.

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you don't like the HellCat? you are very ill my friend, that's like saying you hate the F/A 18, nevermind, the Hellcat it confeds main work horse, made it's place in history, really a good allround plane.
 
Originally posted by Twister
you don't like the HellCat? you are very ill my friend, that's like saying you hate the F/A 18, nevermind, the Hellcat it confeds main work horse, made it's place in history, really a good allround plane.
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Ah, yes... "The ship for everything that doesn't have
enough of anything". That's how one poster described the Hellcat.
I concur with that opinion. To me, it's not maneuverable
enough to be a light fighter, and it's neither heavily
armoured or gunned enough to be a heavy fighter. It
is neither fish nor fowl. I'll take the Arrow or the
T-bolt, thank you.

But as to the poster who hates the Broadsword -- why?
That thing's got shields that put a capital ship to
shame, and guns that will tear just about any fighter
of its time apart. I just finished WC2, and I never
got more than a few armor scratches when flying a
Broadsword. I'll fly it anytime!

Most memorable mission -- probably the Crius missions
from WCIV. It really gave the feel of being involved
in a planetary war. Especially the last in the series
when we infiltrate the Merc command center and blow
it to smithereens -- oooh yeah!

Respectfully,

Brian P.
"Even a D- history student knows it is better to be the
hammer than the nail." -- Chuck Yeager
 
Originally posted by pendell
Ah, yes... "The ship for everything that doesn't have
enough of anything". That's how one poster described the Hellcat.
I concur with that opinion. To me, it's not maneuverable
enough to be a light fighter, and it's neither heavily
armoured or gunned enough to be a heavy fighter. It
is neither fish nor fowl. I'll take the Arrow or the
T-bolt, thank you.
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My favorite is the Bearcat - the perfect medium fighter, with the speed and agility (550 kps and 90/80/90) of a light fighter and the guns and armor and shields of a heavy fighter.

G'DAMN, but I love that ship.
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My two fav. missions, even though they were easy were flying against Flash in WC3, and Maniac in WC4. I always wanted there to be a thing in the simulator to challenge the other pilots, just like the thing with Flash. I never much liked the simulator as it tended to be pretty much gauntlet style. I like having a real mission as opposed the just killing a bunch of kats for no reason.
 
I liked WC1 a lot; game playing on my 286 was always fun..
i really like fighting Dralthi.. cos they were big soft targets which were fun to shoot up and things, and the Kilrathi aces were great.

So fighting a couple of squandrons of dralthi and an ace was as good as it got as far as i was concerened :)
i remember ejecting to try and get him to shoot me after all it said in the manuals about what a mean cat that ace was.. what was his name, began with D or something?

and a mission where u had to protect a captured Kilrathi destroyer which always annoyed because i couldn't do it..

low light was probably the kilrah mission in wc3, which i know a lot of people liked but i thought it lacked atmosphere, the bland textures of the planet were too dull..

anyway, 1st post. woo and things.
 
I love so much the thunderbolt, so many guns, missile, a rear turret, only a lack of maneuverability... but front to front he won.
 
Originally posted by Ghost
I love so much the thunderbolt, so many guns, missile, a rear turret, only a lack of maneuverability... but front to front he won.
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Fighting a Vaktoth with a T-Bolt was a real rush - the two craft had such similar performance characteristics that it came down to the skill of the individual pilots to determine who won.

IMHO, the T-Bolt really needed another pair of missiles AT LEAST, though. :)
 
My most memorable flight moments include a number of things, but I'd have to say my favorite was this:

About halfway through Prophecy, the music changes, as most of us know. The landing music in the latter half of the game is just so peaceful. I used to switch to extearnal and flyby cameras and fly really slow around the midway four hours. Just wasting time and screwing around. The combination of the music and the rotating engines on the vampire, and how slow I was going just made it really cool.

My second favorite would have to be flying the Kurasawa series in Wc1, and all the really hard missions. Granted, I hated flying them, but when I heard the victory music upon returning to the claw, somehow I knew that this time, I'd really earned it. Defending that Ralari was a real bitch-and-a-half.

Third favorite would be the assault at Venice.
 
WC2 had an excellent storyline and great cinematics but the missions were not all that hot. Also the way you jumped from series to series was a lot worse than in WC1. I kinda like taking on Hhriss in a Scimitar anyways.
 
Originally posted by BL
So fighting a couple of squandrons of Dralthis and an ace was as good as it got as far as I was concerened :)
I remember ejecting to try and get him to shoot me after all it said in the manuals about what a mean cat that ace was.. what was his name, began with D or something?
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Dakath Deathclaw or something...
Am I mistaken Bandit?
 
Prompt response as usual :)

Who were the others, you remember?

There was one for each Kilrathi ship in WC I (except the Gratha...)

Salthi: Bhurakh Starkiller
Dralthi: Dakhath Deathstroke
Krant: ?
Jalthi: Bakhtosh Redclaw

That's as far as I can remember... :cool:
 
Is it just me, or do the aces in the SNES version of WC 1 come back multiple times? I remember going through it and gunning down Starkiller at least two to three times. Does that happen on the PC version? That's the only WC game I don't have yet... that, and the expansions, but that's just semantics.
 
I guess he ejected Saturnyne... :)

Boy, I remember, that Starkiller was a helluva sonofabi*** to gun down... YOU HAD TO GET HIM WITH A MISSILE!!!

If you just damaged his ship, he would get the hell out of there, and just you try to hunt a Salthi light fighter with a heavy Raptor... :mad:
 
No, once killed an ace does not re-appear in WC PC. If they *survive* an encounter, they do return later.

WC1 aces-
Bhurak "Starkiller" nar Caxki - Salthi
Dakhath "Deathstroke" nar Sihkag - Dralthi
Khajja "the Fang" nar Ja'targk - Krant
Baktosh "Redclaw" nar Kiranka - Jalthi
 
Well I have a lot of ground to cover in this post, I really should visit the forum more often :) .
First of all I did not like the Hellcat because she had nothing: She was slow (100 kps slower than an Arrow, only 40 kps faster than a Thunderbolt), she had no strong weapons (stronger than the Arrow but only slightly and her heavy gun had a terrible range, not much missiles) and its shield and armor were really only moderate. Of course against a Kilrathi fighter it still was sufficient.
The Broadsword: I do not say that she is a bad ship, she has decent armor and weapons, but she was too slow and a ship without afteburners is nothing for me. But she was a potent bomber (until the Crossbow was released)
So I do not like the Hellcat because she had nothing in favor against other ships and I do not like the Broadsword, mainly because of its lack ABs, I even think it is the only reason.
And a Vaktoth is no match for a Thunderbolt: The Vaktoht is less maneuvrable, has inferior shields and armor, slower ABs and even her guns are slightly weaker than the T's. Okay she had more missiles but no Torpedo. So there is no skill that is (so) important: If you fly a Thunderbolt you fly the superior ship.
And now for the finishing touch:
I know it is almost blasphemous (correctly spelled?) but I think that Loaf...might be...WRONG!
The WC3 manual states that Dakhath is of the Caxki Clan and as that pilot is so similar to the one in WC1 I think it is the same (same name, same callsign, same fighter, same description of its fighting style).
Or did I miss a source and just showed that I am a total newbie not worthy to play WC?
 
The Vaktoh has the same shielding, stronger armor, is only slightly slower and slightly less nimble, and while the Vaktoh has less guns, the Meson blasters from the T-bolt are weak as crap... The Vaktoh can also jump, and since the Prophecy Vaktohs can be configured to carry torps, the WC3 can be configured like that as well.

The WC3 manual states that Dakhath is of the Caxki Clan and as that pilot is so similar to the one in WC1 I think it is the same (same name, same callsign, same fighter, same description of its fighting style).
Or did I miss a source and just showed that I am a total newbie not worthy to play WC?
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Those are two different Dakhaths... the WC1 one is from the Sihkag clan, while the WC3 one is from the Caxki clan...
 
Earthworm is correct -- according to the SWC and Kilrathi Saga manuals, Dakhath in WC1's clan is Sihkag.
 
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