Recent content by The Hawk

I pounded out a brief review for Home of the Underdogs (I'd put up a link, but it doesn't take to tags well, apparently) over the weekend. I imagine many of you are familiar with the place, though. It probably won't be included in a site update for a week or so yet. Just a heads-up for...

This is no surprise, as, AFAIK, there weren't any WC1 cruisers. The Exeter was a destroyer, and the Venture a corvette. Of course, that doesn't bar WC1-era cruisers from turning up in the novels (which I haven't read), but just because one class doesn't carry fighters doesn't mean another...

Play balance is definitely the real-world reason; if you ran up against a squadron of Kilrathi and had a half-dozen ImRecs after you as soon as you engaged, there's no way the player would survive. OTOH, I always thought this could be explained in-game as a part of an overarching difference in...

Howdy, all. After a long time lurking, I finally decided to weigh in on this one, because of the rather surprising support for the WC3-era Kilrathi ships. I, as you might expect from the 'surprising' in the last sentence, much prefer the WC1/WC2 ships. I have three reasons, grounded in a...