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*I* remember capship movement in WC3 -- at least, I remember the Victory moving while I was trying to manually land in its bay. Respectfully, Brian P .

Hence the concluding clause: ''with guns only". It is because fighters use missiles today that we don't arm bombers with lots of guns any more. That, and the weight penalty associated with the guns. Respectfully, Brian P.

Yes, they are a resource. A finite resource. Therefore, one should try to win battles with as little expenditure of resources -- human or any other kind -- as possible, the better to more effectively win the next one. Example: We could have won the Gulf War in 1990 with a frontal attack...

Thymer, Agree with your thoughts on heroism. That's in the nature of the business -- fire, police, and other jobs require a brave few to give their lives that others might live. I only take issue with giving one's life unnecessarily. BTW, it was Macarthur who crushed the Bonus army...

They were not heroes. They failed in their mission. and if memory serves there are few greater shames either in Japanese culture or in any other. To them. However, remember that a soldier isn't supposed to die simply for the sake of dying -- they are supposed to make the sacrifice in...

The problem with orbital vessels is that they do, in fact, have to orbit -- which means they'll only be in range to strike your targets for a couple of hours every day. Artillery, by contrast, is sitting next to you and is immediately available all day. Artillery is also more responsive...

Just a quick reminder -- this particular means of fighting was tried during WWII in the Pacific Theatre. It didn'twork particularly well. It DID, however, result in much higher casualty lists for the Japanese than they otherwise would have sustained. The penultimate example of this would...

Re: He's right Don't forget that part of the problem was the primitive technology at the time: 1. No computer or radar-guided weaponry -- all weapons were fired by human gunners using optical sights. This results in a great deal of inaccuracy, as it isn't as easy to hit a near-subsonic...

Depends on what technology becomes available ... However, fighters could be made obsolete by capital ships if the following happens: 1. Capital ship defenses become too powerful to be knocked down easily by fighters (these need not be simply shields -- there would also be dedicated...

Remember, we were discussing a cloaked ship that doesn't need to uncloak to fire on someone. You can put a totally newbie pilot into the ship and put Maniac, Blair or Thrakhath in a Hellcat and they will always lose -- simply because they'll never realize they're under attack until a missile...

Hmm .. yeah [CLICK as magazine slides into H&K] If you let a Kilrathi get REAL CLOSE [grenade slides into webbing] and you try to fight him unarmed [K-CHKK as HK safety comes off] you're going to lose; the answer is simple -- [RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT] Never fight a Kilrathi unarmed...

It doesn't have to be a good infighter -- it's invisibility should give it more than enough edge. Respectfully, Brian P.

IIRC, it's a scoop on the front of a ship which sucks in all the hydrogen the ship encounters and stores it in tanks, which are then used as fuel for hydrogen-helium fusion. Under normal cruise, the hydrogen scooped replaces the hydrogen burned in the fusion reaction. However, sometimes it...

How about a cloaker that allows you to remain cloaked while shooting? Now, that ain't fair ... but I've never been terribly fond of fair fights. Respectfully, Brian P.

So here I am, TRYING to get WC4 to run on my snazzy new PIII running windows ME .. and it keeps screwing up. I'd run it on an older machine with bad results, so I was determined to get it to run on my new one, windows ME notwithstanding. Kept throwing memory exceptions. Finally, in...

Makes sense. I'll buy it. Respectfully, Brian P.

OK, how about this ... Perhaps not *all* of the events in privateer took place in 2669 -- maybe if we date only the very last part of privateer in 2669 and the vast majority of it in 2668 (we can do this becase the intro trailer shows brownhair fighting pirates outside the normal spacelanes...

Re: Right... Find me some meaning of "one year later", literal or otherwise, that doesn't include the year-o-meter clicking up a step. (E.g., I can see "one year later" being from September one year to May the next, or even from December one year to January the next in the pathological...

Perhaps .. but if so it would still have occurred after the bombing of Kilrah, right? Consider: Privateer happens in 2669 (according to it's intro movie). Lets say 2669.001 . If we take the Righteous Fire intro movie literally, which sets the scene as "Jolson Pleasure Base, 1 year...

For me, I'd like a manned Steltek Drone ship -- five powerful green guns, speed and maneuverability, and nearly impenetrable shields. Give me some cargo space and I'm set for life. Respectfully, Bria nP.