behemoth

This is starting to echo those "Battleship reactivation" threqads over at warships1.com. Basically, the pros want them for fire support, their heavy armor, large size, and the fact they look really cool, while the antis question its uses and vulnerability.

This has been going on for more than half a century...
 
In Wing Commander, larger ships are certainly valuable... for planetary bombardment and for whacking enemy line ships...
 
Oh come on the Behemoth is so unwieldy. As I've mentioned before when the bugs find out about Behemoth they'd go after it with everything they've got. The Big B would be doomed and it would never have had a chance to take a shot at an enemy planet.

The best bet is to retrofit the Midways with the Fleet Plasma and refine the weapon so it works better and more often.
 
It would have a chance to destroy a planet if its defenses were actually finished (as in, there weren't any weak spots in the shields/armor), and it actually had good escorts (notice that a Ranger class carier, two old destroyers and a cruiser aren't a great escort group:)).
 
Originally posted by Nep Parth
The Behemoth's only other use would be to destroy tectoniclly (tectonically? techonicly?...aw, hell) unstable planets. It couldn't be used against, say, Earth (well, it could, but it would probably just crack the crust and pierce the mantle).
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crack the crust. pierce the mantle. remelt the surface. kinda makes the planet useless after that :) which is the point.
 
But in order to destroy an enemy planet we'd have to fly the Behemoth into enemy territory. That means through the wormhole. Would the Big B fit? Even if we could get the Behemoth into enemy territory, our first priority must be eliminating enemy fleets and their associated infrastructure. The Big B is simply too cumbersome for such a task. It attracts too much attention.

Adoption of a refined Fleet Plasma on the Vesuvius and Midway class carriers, more capship missiles and a few wings of Devastators could do the necessary amount of damage. Face it, the Big B is last ditch eye candy. We use it if everything else has gone to hell but right now our options are still open.
 
You sure about that? I remember the cutscene where the Big B fires on Loki VI and the Victory flew next to it. The Victory literally looked like a cricket next to it. Anyways I also remember flying through the wormhole in the last WCP mission and didn't end up in any parallel universe or farther side of the galaxy.
 
True the bug ships are also big but the Behemoth could still be bigger. Remember the Tiamat had to bend it's tentacles to get through.

What would've made WCP extra cool is if they'd insert a cutscene if you fly through the wormhole. It could show your ship fly through the portal and come face to face with the massive fleet Dekker refers to. Before you smash into the Tiamat that's about to pop through the wormhole...
 
It's not bending its tentacles. There are two simple reasons to support this:

1) The wormhole would have been constructed to allow the Tiamat to fit through, as I'd say the bugs intended to have them go through.

2) The 'bending' you saw was just the effect of the distortion in the space time continuum bending the light which we see (like heat causes mirages, heavy gravity bends light). It may also bend matter which passes through it, but that would be unlikely as it would probably kill and destroy anything that passes through.
 
Originally posted by Penguin
Anyways I also remember flying through the wormhole in the last WCP mission and didn't end up in any parallel universe or farther side of the galaxy.
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Aye... one of life's great disappointments, t'was :).
 
*g* Imagine:You come out on the other side..in front of you 200 fighters and a fleet of capships. And dang finished, because you're dead.
 
Well no... if you can go one way, you can go the other. Fighting on both sides of that gateway would be too damned awesome :). Unfortunately, the only two WC games which come anywhere near to being able to simulate this are WC2 and Privateer.
 
Fighting on both sides? Little too much. Especially if you close the wormhole from the wrong side, like it'd happen to me.:)
 
That'd be a sight. 15,000 energy beams crisscrossing on your location...you wouldn't be vaporized, your consituent atoms would be torn apart.

You can tell that the Tiamat's petals bend, since they're all grouped together when it begins to come through the wormhole...
 
Don't make sense that they'd make the tunnel large enough for any ship to travel through it -- there may well be a limit on size. People don't make tunnels large enough for nay vehicle to go through them...
 
Originally posted by Quarto
Well no... if you can go one way, you can go the other.
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Not necessarily. If I was making a gateway to invade another part of the galaxy, I would actually go to great lengths to make sure that you COULD NOT get back, unless I specfically wanted you to. The last thing I want is my enemy using my own gateway against me.

Besides, what we see is the exit portal. Who knows what machinery is required to open/maintain/power such a gateway.
 
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