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Sartha vs. Ferret
IronDuke, the Wing Commander community's pre-eminent rock star, has some updates for his Wing Commander TacOps project. First of all, he's released version 0.12 of the game's manual! He says:
Please note that the gun stats have changed! The mass driver is now your "jack-of-all-trades" average medium gun, and I reduced the neutron gun's range while increasing its damage ratio. I hope these changes make WCTO more true to the original WC2 experience...
The manual is available for download here.
He's also running the first online practice game online - and you can follow the play-by-play here! Check out all the action as Kavok's Sartha face off against Pip's Ferrets!
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There's A Newt On the Record
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently appeared on FOX News' 'On the Record With Greta Van Susteren' show to talk about his Presidential aspirations and politics in general. Why should we care? Because he also explained exactly how he co-authors 'alternate history' books with Wing Commander writer author William Forstchen:
VAN SUSTEREN: When you write these books, how do you do that? Do you, like — do you have a set time every day?
GINGRICH: Well, there are three of us, Steve Hanzer and Bill Forstchen and I. We're all three historians. We start a year, year- and-a-half out, and we begin to argue and put together a book and do research. And then we get down to one day at a time. So what would happen then and how do you do it and how do you put it together? Then Bill Forstchen does the first draft, and it comes to me. I do an entire second draft. Goes to Hanzer. Comes back to Forstchen. And we do it all on word- processing track change. I do most of my writing actually on the airplane, so you know, I'll pull out my computer and start banging away.
I wonder if they ever mention about our favorite game - after all, the Pacific War has previously served Dr. Forstchen well in plotting his Wing Commander novels. You can find the entire transcript here.
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