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It's the Victory that Farbourne is pointing out isn't still afloat, though I think she may have been made seaworthy by the restorations performed for the Trafalgar bicentenary. HMS Victory does have another feature that surely has to be a record - surely the only warship to be damaged by...

Well done! It seems I shall have to wait a bit longer though, if my torrent client is to be believed it will take somewhere between 3 and 20 weeks to download the game. I wonder if this ISP has recently started throttling torrents.

The problem with the other pilots' inflated kill numbers in Standoff is that, um, well, the Kilrathi only have so many fighters. And so this: part-way through Episode 4 presents something of a problem, since it's about three-quarters of the total number of fighters the Kilrathi actually had...

If you target a fighter in the nav map, it will draw a line from your current position to the fighter you have targeted. I don't think Prophecy has a key for targeting bombers or torpedoes (Starlancer and Freespace have them, but both were released after Prophecy), but you can select any given...

I would strongly advise you against starting in Episode 5. Standoff's difficulty curve is a bit spiky (not that this is unusual for a game with "Wing Commander" in its title), but trying to come back to the game with First Encounters (one of the harder missions in the game) followed by Wild...

It plays an awful lot like Freelancer, and not just because of the mouse controls. Quite good fun, would be better if there were more players as a lot of the time at least on the European servers there aren't any opponents, and the games are largely designed for many vs many. Though right now...

We know almost nothing about the Vatari - the Standoff team's interpretation was entirely guesswork. Thrakhath says in Fleet Action that the Hakagas will be capable of "carrying and servicing our newest Vatari-class fighters to be launched next year." Whether that means the Vatari only entered...

I don't think this quite happens the way you think it does, assuming we're talking about the reaction to the initial assault on Vukar Tag. Thrakhath gets a report that the invasion force was escorted by "two light carriers of a new design" and speculates about a possible modification of the...

The similarities between the US Navy and the TCN of the games (as opposed to the novels, where Forstchen in particular draws heavily on his historical knowledge of the USN) are, I think, frequently somewhat overstated. In terms of capital ship names which show up first in games or manuals, the...

Given that the last sentence of the section you quoted there refers to a joke easter egg in Ultima 7, it is probably best not to take that page too seriously as a source.

It doesn't appear anywhere in the WC3 manuals, though I'm sure I remember reading something along those lines at some point - but it might have been in a fan source for all I know. Well, what's indisputable is that the "decoy" button still works after you're out of decoys in WC3...

The best part of this app has to be the advice for Strakha versus Strakha (with Strakha versus Excalibur a close second).

The case for the Arrow The Arrow is easily the most survivable fighter in the game bar the Excalibur, due to its combination of size, speed and autoslide. Missile locks can be broken quite readily with IFF scrambles and autoslide, so the lack of decoys rarely hurts - and even without breaking...

Yeah, it's hard. It's not impossible, though - well, I've never actually played the game on Crazy, but I'm going to assume it's easier than Nightmare which I have beaten and am currently doing a video run-through of, though it hasn't got that far yet. Ultimately the things to note about fighting...

OK, I'll bite. People say this all the time, and I still don't know why. In WC2 you killed all the enemy fighters, sat around out of range while your torpedo locked, and then cruised towards the enemy ship or base in your Broadsword keeping an eye on your shield status. This is approximately as...

Wing Commander can be a lot like that, in all its various different iterations. Sometimes missions just fall into place. We'd all like to think that it's us just raising our game every so often, but I think it's more likely that the AI occasionally does some really daft decision making...

The Epee seems like a terrible choice of fighter for a destroyer staffed with reservists. It's fast and has a lot of firepower for its size, but lacks protection. It's a deathtrap for unskilled pilots and given the weak shielding and armour probably also quite hard to keep flying with the...

Ultimately when you're Confleet in the 2670s new carrier development isn't going to be that high a priority. Sure, the Concordias are getting old and need replacing, and that's why there's a Vesuvius-class program, but you're now a peacetime Navy with a shrinking budget and an expanding volume...

Right, nailed this down a bit further. Well...a lot further. What DOSBox is struggling with (and it does happen in the GoG version too, at least for me), is the Meson Gun sound effect. I mostly fly Arrows and Excaliburs and didn't notice it as much, but test-firing a Thunderbolt's guns shows...

Stingray and Doomsday both survive to fight the Nephilim according to Star*Soldier; and if Bear died, it wasn't as a pilot. I suspect the reason that Confed pilot mortality is so high is because it doesn't seem to rotate ace pilots back to training commands, instead keeping them on the front...