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It sounds like you're either in a Broadsword or a Sabre. Can I ask which mission you're trying specifically? Some general tips: Don't try anything fancy in the Broadsword. Just pound away with the Mass Drivers until the Jalkehi go away. If the pounding from the rear gets too much, switch...

Kill-wise, I didn't do as well in WC4 as in the other games. I blame the increased lethality of missiles combined with my wingman's increased ability to use them. Prior to leaving for Earth, I had 212 kills, including 25 aces. 1 Dragon, 4 Arrows and 5 Mines adds another 10 to that total...

And Wing Commander IV comes to an end. Is it just me or does Maniac look a little surly in the last few mission breifings? Talos 1: We're making nice progress in catching up to the Vesuvius when Tolwyn does the unexpected. 15 seconds away from the Sol jump point the Vesuvious makes a 180...

Axius 1: I come across Maniac in the CIC, he's playing with a system that he doesn't really understand and I'm forced to step in and help him out before he sets the ship to Self Destruct. The screen resolves itself into an image of Admiral Wilford. They've been doing some analysis of what...

Privateer did that the best. You're limping away from a tough fight and then have to navigate an asteroid field with a ship that can only turn right and a little bit up.

Whoops. I kind of misread the regroup in Telamon bit last week. Ah well, a nice short week for me fits well with spending most of it camping.

That was my impression, too. In fact, I even skimmed through End Run to check. The Trafalgar was described as a CVA, but I couldn't see a Jutland reference anywhere.

My game's picked up another weird bug where Catscratch has just disppeared. I definitely saved him on the mission but he's not on the flight roster and Sosa's acting like he's dead, according to Wedge's scripts. I might have a play around with a save game editor, see what I can do with it...

I had a weird bug in Peleus 2 where the was a Bearcat I couldn't damage. My shots were definitely hitting it but they weren't doing anything and I had to let Turbo slowly take care of it. Pasqual 1: I find Maniac playing with some cards in the Galley, obviously distraught over Vagabond's...

I had a bit more luck with the scatter gun on the Avengers in Pasqual 2, but when those Razors flew past jinking in Pasqual 1, I knew I stood no chance of even scoring a hit with it. I'm going to try to stay away from the stormfire during the playthrough, it feels a little like cheating.

I can definitely refute that with Vista on an x86, having played through it during the community replay a short while back. Make sure you're using the Kilrathi Saga version of SM1 (Available from the CIC) and set the SM1.exe file to have the exact same compatability settings that worked for...

I never got the hang of the Scatter Gun, actually. I'm a terrible shot so I can never land the beams at the same target without being at white of their eyes range and risking collision and that damned crack over the aiming circle.

Phew! Finally caught up with Week 2. Silenos 1: I don't get much time to make myself at home as the loud speaker declares an emergency scramble. The Lexington has followed us through the jump point and is making an attack. I launch from the deck in my Hellcat and move to engage, supported...

I'm not a fan, but the recent play-through has shown the Hellcat it's uses. Mostly, though it lacks the huge missile numbers of the Arrow, the heavier guns are much better against the Corvettes. I also found that, though the difference is minimal, the extra armour and shields were noticeable. I...

And the rest of week one. Man, this play-through is going to take ages to write up. Hellespont 3: There's an unfamiliar face at the top of the stair from the flight deck. He introduces himself as Troy Carter, callsign Catscratch. This kid's so freshly out of the Academy that he might as...

8 missions in the first week of WC4? I'm never going to catch up :( I'm just about done with this week's missions and hopefully I'll be caught up by week 3 or 4. In the meantime, here's my journal entry for the first two Hellespont missions: Hellespont 1: I step into the bar on...

Shoot them? :p I always found fancy manuevers like autosliding just hurt me against the Corvettes. Take out the rear particle turret and then bash at them with heavy guns was my solution.

The Nephilim reefs strike me as something that would be good to hit with 500 million gigawatts. I wonder what the completed design was like? Imagine all that power diverted to shields and turrets scattered around the ship.

That's what I found, too. So I popped out and used the cloaking device.

The trench really does take forever. I'm not quite sure why they made it so long without any challenges, though. At the start there were a bunch of tanks firing away inside the trench and it would have been a lot more interesting if they'd stuck tanks along the way.