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Ah, thanks. It sure makes more sense with this explanation. I'm not sure it wasn't that hard to survive back then... Afterburner and wingmen tend to be important that missiles, and Pilum FFs really aren't that good.

Computer : Mission Failed. Freyers : Which part of the word "capture" is giving you trouble, Captain? Taking that hangar out is not going to do wonders for your career, you lunatic! EDIT : Be sure to let Squealer, Bradshaw, and Freyers finish their speech before destroying the Hangar, or...

Whoops. There's indeed no need to hold shift. My bad. :) That's not the grounded message - it's a special line from Freyers. :p

Not sure if this has been mentioned before... In Ep.1's pirate base mission, activate debug mode (type shoehorn while holding shift), use Ctrl-F12 to destroy the Base's Hangar, and see what happens. :D Interestingly enough, I don't think it's possible to trigger this without cheating.

I didn't say the UE gauntlets had endless waves of ships, I said they were unbeatable. :p

Okay, so I've made it to the first mission with the Phantom. I find it quite hard to survive, but I think that's more due to the fact that I'm trying to fight Jratheks with a keyboard. Objectively the Phantom doesn't seem to be as bad as the Epee. The cockpit doesn't bother me that much, but...

Thanks! It was in the readme.arm file instead of the readme.txt file, that's why I hadn't figured it out. :)

Where do you actually enter the command line you're given at the end of a gauntlet mission? :D

I know... I'm just really bad at playing only with the keyboard. I mean, with the mouse/keyboard combo I can fire, afterburner, move, and use missiles at the same time, whereas with the the keyboard I'm having trouble performing more than two actions simultaneously. Similarly, the mouse in...

I think I'm going to do the latter, since playing Armada with the keyboard is kind of a pain. :)

I somehow managed to properly install the Armada disks with a bit of tweaking... Please tell me there's a way to play with a mouse. Otherwise, it looks like I'll really need a joystick.:p

Hmm. Does anyone have a screenshot of it? (EDIT : I mean of its cockpit, of course.)

Thanks, that would explain it... Good thing the Standoff gauntlets are actually winnable. (I'm not suprised the UE gauntlets are unwinnable... I'm not sure if it would even make sense to make them winnable, since most of the ships in UE aren't exactly the best ships ever :p )

And I thought nothing could be worse than the Epee or the Tarsus... I've got to play Armada. :D

The only explanation for this that makes sense to me plot-wise is that Blair can't both attack the Intrepid and defend the Lexington - so the BW bombers blow it up, because Blair doesn't have time to get back. (Gameplay-wise, it's obvious the designers didn't want to continue the Confed path...

I have to ask... Are those gauntlet missions meant to be unbeatable? (I'd be pretty impressed if someone managed to beat them - especially the Border Worlds gauntlet.)

The groan wasn't for you. It was due to the fact that the discussion was getting a little confusing. ;)

I thought it was interesting how WC4's fourth mission (Tyr 1) is one of the hardest missions in the game...

Groan. What I meant is that if I choose to Nuke Ella, I *have* to use the Flashpack to do it. Not bringing the Flashpack is not an option. :)

Well, I can choose not to use the Flashpak for the Vesuvius mission, but I have no option not to use the Flashpak for the Ella mission.