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It does look a lot like the old Gilgamesh. I like the overall design, it looks like a sturdy fighter-platform. Though, to be perfectly honest, my gut reaction was of less a Light Carrier and more something resembling the old Waterloos. A heavy cruiser with respectable fighter capacity.

As the movie headed towards its climax, Blair, alone in his fighter, was given the sole responsibility of saving the Confederation by transmitting the coordinates of the jump point to the Confed fleet. As his ship hurtled towards the jump-point, he turned off his navigational computer (against...

solid 5 on its own merits. 3-3.5 when one considers it as part of the established WC Universe (major points off for giving Blair a jedi-esq superpower).

Haess nailed it on the head. Logic. Considering the situation Confed was in during the Kilrathi war, they wouldn't really be looking at a Supercarrier design. Confed had no need for a supercarrier option. Quite the opposite, game fiction and the novels imply a growing focus on smaller ships...

I'm a firm believer in the philosophy: If they can build it, we can blow it up. Invulnerable is a temporary condition. Somebody will eventually figure out something to hit that ship hard enough to kill it, and something tells me it won't be able to leap all nimbly bimbly out of the way.

If they don't pick Kombat Wombat in the other thread, I'm making my own damn story. Granted, it will be stick figures, but the writing will be excellent. The only question is... who is going to fly Wombat's wing?

Think of how much more taxing dogfighting under those conditions would be. The only things you hear are com-chatter, your own guns/missiles and the sounds your shields and armor make when they take hits. Especially combat against stealth fighters. You're alone, 40k away from the Claw and...

Unless you've got a massive numerical superiority on top of it. In which case the defender's ability to predict and dictate terms of combat is effectively washed out and the enemy is able to exploit opened axis of attack. Also, with a defense-first mentality such as Confed had, the dreadnought...

I like "Reverend" more and more. Maybe "Padre" if you want to make a double meaning situation. Or has "Kombat Wombat" already filtered into this thread from the "Silliest Callsigns." Not my idea, but a clear winner, put up your ballots folks.

You have clearly never seen: Street Fighter, Mario Brothers or Double Dragon. The bar has been set my friend.

He would have to be australian, maybe instead of being Halcyon's son, he was Hunter's youngest cousin. He recieved his callsign on leave when, under the influence of Suicide and various chemical compounds, he thought he noticed a stray Kilrathi fighter flying through the alleyway outside of the...

"no no no, that's all wrong. What we're going for here is more of a sleak 'whoosh.' none of this 'varoom' crap! The contract is cancelled!" Maybe some pilots turn it off, preferring instead the soothing sounds of Confed-approved light jazz.

yes, this I am aware of. But the elements it reused were not from the WC games. They were standalone movie content. Nothing had the proper feel. Rather, the insides of the ships I thought did a marvelous job, even the Kilrathi ships were good, my problems are limited strictly to the Confed...

and if the noises were artificial, who do you think Confed contracted to make the "A Salthi just flew past your cockpit" noise?

First off, and for the record, I liked the movie. It was nice to see something I spent that much time on as a child brought to life. However, it was a fairly pale representation of the WC universe. It wasn't so much that I thought the ship models were bad (with a severly limited budget they...

I know that sound would carry along the body of the fighter (gun noises etc...) What I do remember, and I'll have to wait til I'm home next week to look into it, is in some WC Guidebook it mentioned that fighters employed a series of speakers to simulate noises which would help pilots function...

Very true, but the advantage in that situation is due in large part to the inherent Kilrathi numerical superiority. With Confed hurting the way it is during WC3, a particularly large group of Kilrathi carriers of the regular variety would have the same effect. Several carriers, in fact, might...

BOOM! Yeah, now that I remember it, I read something similar about the scopes in a strategy guide. But do you have an answer for the sound query LOAF? rather, has some piece of WC source material I've never come across explained that?

... which drift endlessly into the void Thank you everybody, I'm here all week.

My question, with such a sizeable disadvantage in carrier numbers anyways, why would Confleet start design on a larger vessel? Seems they'd be more focused on combat effective CVEs or finding corners to cut to churn out a couple more Jutland's every now and then. I have this problem whenever...