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For my ongoing Wing Commander III Let's Play I was challenged to eschew any of the available wingmen and do the final series of missions solo. I've just completed the first one, and was sufficiently surprised at how easy it was I actually had to check to see that I'd still got the game set to...

It's also interesting to consider how this might extend to later games in the series. You cannot kill all the enemies in WC2. In the third mission you are sent against a phase-shielded target ship while flying a craft which does not carry torpedoes. Similarly with SO1. SO2 you can kill...

If, that is, you can put up with having that hideous angry red colour all over the place. Personally, I'm going with the Border Worlds green...

Eh, you can't really "fix" Saga. Saga's problems stem from the fact that it's a mix of WC3 (which isn't very good - I mean, it's a great story experience, but there's not much to be said for the flight engine) and FS2 (which isn't very good), with an added dash of terrible writing (which you...

Well, as always with these things, you cannot fit everything together perfectly. If the animated series happens parallel with the games, then Blair manages to be a cadet and a Lieutenant Colonel at the same time. Conversely, if it happened before them, then somehow the entire crew of the Tiger's...

This is one of the relatively few outright contradictions between background sources; the WC Bible states the Akwende Drive was invented in 2416, with the Halie Selassie jumping from Sol to Alpha Centauri on 2416.013 and returning on 2416.187 and explains how Dr. Akwende became the only person...

Wait, what? Maniac, do something selfless? Oh, hang on. Maniac, say he did something selfless after all of the people who might have been around to contradict him are dead? That's better.

It's true (not that the writer explains why) that WC3 probably has the weakest space combat of the series. Ace, the default difficulty, is disappointingly easy, whereas Nightmare while it provides a suitable challenge is more of a test of patience than anything else. It suffers greatly from a...

My answer is only "days" because I decided to check CIC before recording my latest Privateer video - if I had done things the other way around it would have been "hours" or, more accurately, "minutes".

If you play the midi through windows, Dosbox doesn't record it along with the video (you can make it record separately, but then you have to spend ages synching them up). Which is fine for usual purposes, but extremely annoying when you want to upload something for Youtube.

Yes it is! (I should know, I put it there). You may discover you have, in fact, already found the "winning" ending ("Next Year In Kilrah") ; it is not particularly upbeat - this is because even after the best possible outcome of the Battle of Earth, humanity is still pretty much losing the...

It really, really doesn't fly like the Vision engine (not that this means that it isn't the Vision engine - Saga doesn't fly that much like Freespace, either). If it did, I wouldn't find Tachyon on default difficulty much harder than Secret Ops on Nightmare. My preferred flying style is...

Plated armour that is bolted on wouldn't work. Bolting armour on to a vessel creates a massive stress concentration at the point where you attach it and lowers the effective force required to crack it by a factor of 3-5 (yeah, I have two degrees in materials science, next question?). If the...

We never meet the CO of the Tiger's Claw in WC1. Colonel Halcyon is the CAG. We know he's the CAG because of the way he's a Colonel, the same rank every other CAG in a Wing Commander game holds. The CO of the Tiger's Claw during WC1 is never specified, but based on Academy and the WC2 intro, it...

OK, here's an idea for how Concordia could end up crashing down on Vespus - the Kilrathi group includes one or more Rigakh-class cruisers, which recon flights determine are carrying Sr-90 warheads (or bioweapons, depending on whether you want to go for the Fleet Action or Heart of the Tiger...

To be honest, I'm really not sure that it's worth setting up twist or throttle controls for WC3 - I know I haven't bothered. The WC3 flight engine very rarely gives you a reason to be travelling at a speed other than maximum, afterburner maximum, or what your target is travelling at, so having...

Yeah, I'd agree with -danr- that the hardest mission in all of Wing Commander is in SO1 - though it's debatable, Kurasawa-2 is definitely the hardest if you do the mission the normal way using the autopilot, and there's missions in Special Operations which are fairly close to impossible if you...

You face an extra carrier because you made this assumption: So if you destroy the Tar'vakh, there's an extra carrier present in, I think, Wild Weasel. However, you didn't check for the destruction of the Tar'vakh and both of the Snakeirs that would have withdrawn with it as escorts. So the...

Depends what you're going for. My general belief is that it's easier to win the mission in the Rapier, just about, but if you want a clean sweep of kills (the Hakaga and both Snakeirs) then you're much better off going for the Crossbow because the Vision engine AI is still terrible at taking the...

Went back and looked. A Hakaga is nine torpedoes. In terms of torpedo usage, I would say the challenging ships were the TII, but only because of your wingmen - given it has a large blindspot you don't actually have to get that close - the Rigakh, because the weak spots aren't all that...