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Situation: I am running the original retail WC3 (I guess I could switch to the GoG version if I had to) in ykhwong's Munt-enabled svn DOSBox build. The MT-32 itself works fine; the music and speech play with no problem at all. But gunfire (I think specifically Kilrathi gunfire, since firing my...

Of course, the first early morning carrier raid in history wasn't in World War II at all. The Royal Navy made its first forays into carrier warfare in the twilight of the first world war... While Taranto was the first carrier raid against a port, the first carrier raid in history was also...

The only other thing we know about the Tolwyns is that they're a line of the Spencer-Churchill family - Fleet Action has Tolwyn think "for a moment of a distant ancestor of long ago, who, when contemplating the invasion and destruction of England, announced that even if England fell, the Empire...

You argue that the Thunderbolt might well have a tractor beam, but you don't address whether or not it has an airlock. The Thunderbolt is 34 metres long, and, if the proportions on the WC3 fighter selection screen are correct, slightly under 20 metres wide and 8 metres high. These dimensions are...

My experience using Fraps versus Hypercam 2 when recording several different games is that Fraps uses fewer resources and, far more importantly, records without dropping frames, so you get a much better quality end video. The only real problems that Fraps has is that it uses its own codec, which...

Very probably you are doing something wrong. I used FRAPS for my Standoff videos, so it definitely doesn't have a problem with the engine. More generally, Fraps should be able to record anything you use OpenGL or Direct 3D to render. When you run Prophecy, does the Fraps frame rate counter show...

The Victory didn't use Thunderbolts for S&R duties either though - if you eject, you're brought back in in a Shuttle - so that interpretation doesn't make much sense unless you think that either a) Confed is sufficiently short of carrier-capable fighters it's pressing a design which had...

One other missile you haven't done is the Skipper, unless that's appeared somewhere else I've not seen. I think it's do-able without needing to introduce the sort of complicated cloaking rules that would be required for the Strakha, though. Skipper Missile: As Torpedo, except it travels for...

Some of the confusion is based on the fact that spaceframes are periodically updated and refitted, just as in real life. The F-27 Arrow V that operates off the TCS Victory in Wing Commander III is definitely a modern variant (Victory Streak notes that the Shelton Slide is limited to the newest...

If it's fast, fun, well-written, has afterburners and supports a joystick, I'll be happy. Everything else is a bonus. I'm not really expecting to get flight stick support, though...

No it doesn't. The YF-44 has 5/5/3 cm equivalent of armour front/back/sides. The F-44 variant which appears in Fleet Action has 7.5/7.5/6 cm equivalent. Ten years later - that's a glacially slow progress, as you comment. And since this fighter is still in active service up to six months before...

The point, of course, is that regardless of the units used, we are for some reason expected to believe that between WC2 and WC3 there has been such a revolution in armour technology that heavy fighters now have as much armour as destroyers used to. Which is a little silly, though I guess not...

Something else interesting I've just noticed in Warbirds is that the armour values are somewhat ridiculous. Apparently a Thunderbolt has a metre-thick durasteel casing around the entire spaceframe. I see the WCPedia has taken the sensible expedient of dividing all those values by 10, probably...

You can change the speed DOSBox runs at by hitting Ctrl-F11 (slow down) or Ctrl-F12 (speed up) if that's a problem. Other than that, yeah, that's one of the harder fights in the game. Two general tips then, one for fighting heavy ships in a light ship and one for fighting while badly...

I needed to replay that mission to get the losing ending, so I also set myself the challenge of locating that elusive missile. And a missile it is. As for where it is, well... Yeah, I don't think I'll be intercepting that one any time soon. Is it just there by mistake, or was it deliberate to...

I don't think so, because a) they'd not be in range of anything to have a missile lock on, since those fighters are somewhat behind me and the Kilrathi are in front, b) the missile disappears a tenth of a second later without apparently hitting anything, and c) I'm pretty certain...

No. The Pilgrim War was fought between 2631 and 2634, with the McAuliffe Ambush starting the first intense phase of the Terran-Kilrathi War about a hundred and fifty days after the Pilgrim War ended. Unfortunately Action Stations appeared a year before the movie (which introduced the Pilgrims)...

Well, maybe. Here's an image of my radar during "Armageddon". As you can see, the Rigakh cruisers (orange dots) are directly in front of me, and busily launching their antimatter missiles. But...what's that other yellow dot, behind me, nowhere near the Rigakhs (which are still some ~30000 km...

I have to say I prefer the turrets the way they are. Well, Grikath and Gothri turrets are really annoying, especially to Arrows and dumbfires, but I can't say that's exactly a bad design decision, and Crossbow turrets really ought to be bad. All the non-Sabre (non-Morningstar, I guess, too)...

...I really need to get around to doing that, don't I? Ah well. This is a quick list of things which anybody who wants to help out with the Guide could helpfully do. -Check the wingmen (comms menu 4 at launch will tell you, since they'll respond to your request for a status) assignments for...