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Enemy Mine, The Last Starfighter, and Earthstar Voyager were some of my favorites as a kid. Check out Starcrash starring THE HOFF, now there is a real piece of crap.

Interesting. One of the most important things that has been totally left out of this discussion is actual observation from combat in the games, or even the Wing Commander Movie. At no point during any of the games do we experience combat in the hundred of kilometers per second range. If we...

Thanks Loaf. That chart clears things up quite a bit. It would appear that the dual-mounted dorsal amidships guns and the wing mounted side-facing guns might be the largest. I am having a difficult time finding a point of reference for the triples, so I can't really gage their size. Would...

Hello everyone, I was just wondering if anybody knows where the specific location of the Tiger's Claws triple-mounted guns are located. I know large-caliber dual mounted guns exist on the wingtips of the carrier, but I cannot find a home for the triples. I remember seeing an Origin...

This might be a product of the war. All services may have their own variants, but I would imagine that prior to the war, the lines between the services were harder. Why else would their be a separate TCSF and TCN, if not that they had different philosophies and different designs. After World...

Hi ck9791, To answer your question, we see numerous examples of specifically naval and space force fighter pilots. A number of key characters change service rather abruptly with little apparent reason. In the WCM, Blair's commission transfers. Keeping in mind also that he graduated from...

For the Longbow, is it possible that in Academy it may have been specifically an SAR craft with a different name and designation? Then, sometime around 2665, a militarized version of the SAR craft (think the AC-130 gunship to the standard C-130) entered service as the F/A-76 Longbow. In that...

Cool. Thanks for the link and the heads up Nob. I must have missed that thread earlier. I am pouring through the info and will have an updated list soon. Also, must the fighter designators follow a chronological order? We see the Sabre in WCA in 2654, although its designation is F-57, when...

I remember something about the Thunderbolt being a product of the "Rapier". Given the the HF designation of the Thunderbolt, it is possible that it is related to the Rapier I, but that would make it really old. LOAF had stated in a previous thread that what we saw in WCA can be confirmed as an...

Hi everyone, Using what we've learned from Arena and the Star Soldier manual, I have come up with a list of Confed fighters with designations and service entry dates. Now of course much of this is conjectural, I have really tried to combine all information from what we know from the novels...

Besides its designation, the F-117 is not a fighter. It is more in the vain of a special attack plane like the FB-111.

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Unfortunately, I disagree. I was a big Babylon 5 fan as a teenager, but I find I really don't like it as much now. To be honest, I don't know why. Crusade though I never really cared much for. For one, the technomages, whom JMS has spent so much time with in his later projects alway struck me...

My feelings exactly! Bravo!

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Just to start a tactics/technology conversation, what do you guys think would be the reason for Confed and Kilrathi designers to not install even a basic phase shield system on their new Battle Cruisers? The Star Soldier manual states that energy has been geared specifically for speed and...

Hi Saga team, Just was wondering if it is possible to alter the ship class names to reflect what we have learned about from the Arena universe? How is progress coming on the full release? Thanks

Absolutely! Most of all, playing Arena with you guys has been an exciting and sometimes humbling experience. I really hope this is a sign of more Wing Commander games to come.

Interesting too is the front part of the Indomitable class has the distinctive Confed red-stripe on yellow field paint scheme seen on the Confederation class Dreadnought, and the Concordia and Yorktown-class CV's.