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Also if you simply go by the handling specs and the armament of ships like the Longbow and Hellcat V, you kind of get the impression that these are older designs circa WC3 (both are armed with neutrons. Hellcat's a bit slower and a bit more sluggish than a Rapier II, Longbow doesn't really have...

Think he means "to match the stats in VS". I'm not really sure what to make of a bunch of the numbers, though. This is the same publication that also alleges that the Hellcat V has lasers/ions (rather than neutron/ion) as its gun armament, and IIRC the Longbow weaponry was also inaccurate...

That woman looks hideously deformed.

Well there's two problems with the basic approaches. First is that the SWTC people take what's said about Star Destroyers too literally. (As in when it says "a civilization to slag" they calculated based on the literal interpretation of slag.) While the second argument of "it makes no...

Well if it's Wake, seems an odd way to name a ship, particularly since you have examples within the class itself(Iwo-Jima, properly if it were just to drop the "island" part, it'd just be Iwo) and outside of the class(St. Helens, as an example) that are rather formal about the use of the full...

If interpreted the way Loaf did, I'd say the Spit/'stang/Corsair of its time in WC would have to be the Rapier-II. It started out as a dominant fighter, and pretty much kept that position to the point where it was still the frontline superiority fighter of choice to the Battle of Earth...

Why does "Shotglass" even need to be the same guy from WC1? For all we know it's like "Sawbones" or "doc", just a generic nickname for a bartender on a ship, isn't it?

Written out, Tolwyn (in any deployment record or such) would be: "Rear Admiral Sir Geoffrey Tolwyn, K.C.B." Ranks always come before anything else, peerages included. Examples being: "Captain Lord Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald" "Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson of...

People actually used missiles in the first and second games? I have to admit, I never found them all that useful unless it was to finish something off swiftly, rather than the stand off capability you had in the later WC games.

The Halcyon Dialogue in SM1 does say "one company" per Drayman, which works out to 1-200 per unless TCMC companies are a lot bigger or smaller. On the other hand...Sleipner must be a rather large convoy if it's carrying an entire division.(10-20,000)

Actual episode where the "WW2" factor was placed was Redemption Pts. 1 and 2. Task Force under Picard had a USS Akagi and a USS Hornet.

As a simple aside... The "modern" usage of "Major General" is actually just a shortening of "Sergeant Major General" thus it's ranked lower than Lieutenant General.(Though you'll have to admit a modern major general is better versed in vegetable, animal and mineral.) Theoritically the WC...

Uh.. It's an immemorial custom of the service that captains and admirals have their own stewards(and cooks) and carry them around whereever they go. Tolwyn being one of those sticklers for tradition, would therefore keep his steward with him when he hoists his flag somewhere...

"Sub-Lieutenant" is the rank equivilant of Ensign in the USN. The rank came about in the mid 1860s as a replacement to "mate"(A derivation of "Master's Mate" which was a temporary warrant rank that senior midshipmen usually held in lieu of a commission during the 1700s.) Lieutenant J.G. was...

It doesn't have enough beam.

There was a line about Terran fighter design being superior to the Kilrathi prior to the armistice by Tolwyn during the briefing in his country house, wasn't there? Something about the "New-line Broadswords and Sabre-D's" giving an advantage to Confed in terms of bomber capabilities? Not...

I wish that name would be changed. No one ever calls it "Fujiyama" in Japanese, it's Fuji-SAN. And if they just wanted to go with an anglicized name they may as well have called it Mt. Fuji.

Err... What's the "speed" relative to anyway? As there's no point of reference in space how can you have a discrete measurement of speed unless you're measuring distances between locales and how fast you're doing that distance?(Hence the term "all stop" is silly for example in Star Trek.)

The volumetric figures are for habitable volume, hence they don't include things like the flight deck which is one giant space in the middle of the hull. As an aside the flightdeck's volume for the Victory is about 1.8 million cubic meters.

Quick count...Just as an aside. Ranger class CVL has a volume of about 5 million cubic meters. A mass of 28,000 metric tons would be rather ridiculously small. 0.0056 metric tons/cubic meter. Um that works out to a specific density that's about 5.6 kg/cubic meter compared to atmosphere at sea...