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I'm getting some very strange behaviour. The NAV map appears completely black with just the writing on it during briefings and inflight I can see the HUD, but everything else is just some gray-ish sort of squares. It's also running extremely slowly, with the first message from the Firekka just...

My PIV 2.8GHz was enough to handle the entire WC replay from Vista, running in DOSBox until we hit WC:P and SO.

One thing to remember with the Hakagas is that building them would have cost the Kilrathi Empire the war if Confed hadn't fallen for the False Truce, thanks to the secrecy and remote build location taking up a lot of the Empire's transport abilities. If they'd been built and used is the standard...

There's two other tidbits in there that I noticed. First, it mentions a radar capable of tracking two targets at once. It sounds like there was a plan for an Ace Combat like ability to fire missiles at multiple different targets with the one lock-on. That would have made for some awesome...

The Bearcat's gun positioning is very strange so it's likely your shots were flying to either side of your target. It will take some time to get used to them. This doesn't mean that you can ignore missiles, they play a very important role in WC4 and jockeying for a good missile shot against that...

Alternatively, use H in the Banshee to switch over to the Scatter Gun. I never had much luck with the strange fire distribution, but I know a number of people on here swear by it.

Especially with SO. With some skill and patience on the infinite wave missions, I imagine one could easily crack 1000 kills over the course of the game.

It's getting old now, reached it's haydey with the Macy's Thanksgiving parade.

I loved SO2 Maniac. "Shoot at the enemy, you idiot!" I'll second Secret Ops' Casey. Try to picture those words coming out of Petraca's mouth, it just doesn't seem right.

Everytime I tried to autoslide around a capship, I just ended up sliding into a massive wall of fire.

Now for the numbers game. I had 804 kills going into the last Proxima mission and scored another 11 during the mission according to the post-flight report, giving me a total of 815. Add that to the 530 from Prophecy gives Casey a total score of 1345, just about equal with my score for the entire...

Proxima seems like a bit of a disappointment compared to Krieger. Conserving torpedoes in the Shrike mission was just about the hard challenge and even then you get some Thunderbolt backup. Proxima 1: Our successes in the Krieger system has given us a little bit of time to relax and...

Phew, talk about a long system! Not to mention Target-rich. I'm up to 750-odd kills already, though I did take my time in some of the infinte waves missions. Krieger 1: The captain gives us a little bit of time during the jump to unwind and relax, giving me a chance to read my emails and...

Yeah, a number of times I'd see the missile fired and think "No lock alarm, must be aimed at someone else" and then BLAM! The second time I played through Standoff I was a lot more careful around the bastards.

The Salthis in Standoff are a great example of this, they went from cannon fodder to a light fighter that still poses a threat.

I haven't forgotten you guys, real life has just gotten in the way a bit lately. I'm about halfway through Krieger right now.

There's a reason the book tells you to clear out the escorts first. I never found the torpedo runs tedious in WC2 but there was usually something else added to the runs that may have changed that. Plotting my vector to tractor in a wingman on the way out, luring that damned Ralatha to miss...

Wow, next week is looking like a long one. The escort on the way to Krieger seemed like enough of a Marathon for me. Luyten 1: The captain's expecting a warm reception from the aliens in the Luyten system, so we're sitting in our fighters as the Cerberus jumps, ready to defend our home as...

Another week down. Cygnus system was almost a disappointment after the fun last week. Cygnus 1: As the Cerberus makes it's way into the Cygnus system, I get a chance to sit down and check my messages. The hard combat in the Talos system didn't leave much time for anything other than...

I don't know how I managed to save all three transports in the first mission, the bugs seemed to spread their fire between all three. Which meant that all three were held together by spit and bailing wire but they were still there. A quick snapshot with a Cloudburst onto a torpedo definitely...