Ranks in WC1
- Thread starter Sylvester
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Haesslich
Spaceman
Sylvester said:
You have to stay on the Winning path.
Enyo Start: 2nd Lt
Enyo End: 1st Lt
McAuliffe Start: 1st Lt
McAuliffe End: Captain
Gimle Start: Captain
Gimle End: Captain
Dakota Start: Captain
Dakota End: Major
Kurosawa Start: Major
Kurosawa End: Major
Venice Start: Major
Venice End: Kill the Starbase, get Medal of Valor. Stay as Major
The next promotion doesn't come till you're into the Secret Missions, in Bifrost, and only if you complete both missions successfully. I think you could make Lt. Colonel in the SNES version, but I'd have to doublecheck.
overmortal
Bearded Person
I never did, and I never lost missions.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Promotions don't happen at pre-set points in WC1. Just do well, score a bunch of kills and win a bunch of missions and you can make up to Major in the first game.
overmortal
Bearded Person
Even as young as I was when I played the SNES WC, I remember thinking "Dang . . . this pilot guy sure has climbed the ladder pretty quickly . . . in what . . a couple of weeks, is it? I thought it took most people several years, even decades to become a Major."
PopsiclePete
Mission programmer
I once made it to Lt. Col in the first game... I killed every enemy without letting my wingmans kill any (or not no more than 1) nor letting any enemy escape and won every mission. I saved and replayed every mission until I could achieve this.
I suppose you gain promotions with the amount of enemies you kill.
My WC skills are not what they used to be though, and I am not nearly good enough to do this anymore
I suppose you gain promotions with the amount of enemies you kill.
My WC skills are not what they used to be though, and I am not nearly good enough to do this anymore
AdmiralHuang
Spaceman
I never got to Lt. Colonel. I always assumed it happened between WC1 and WC2.
AdmiralHuang
Spaceman
What am I saying? Did Blair ever become a Lt. Colonel? He got Major, became demoted, and then became a Colonel.
Memory lapse...
Memory lapse...
Haesslich
Spaceman
AdmiralHuang said:
Secret Missions 1 gave you the chance - any of the addons would let you go up to Lt. Colonel. After all, at the end of SM2, Halcyon wants to promote you to head up the Tiger's Claw fighter wing since he was being transferred to Tactical Command in a few weeks.
Then the K'Tithrak Mang incident happened...
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
IIRC, it's physically impossible to become a Lt. Col. in WC1 -- the game doesn't allow you to go higher than Major, no matter how many promotion points you earn.
WildWeasel
Spaceman
You cannot become a lieutenant colonel in the Vega Campaign.
PopsiclePete
Mission programmer
Can you not ? Is it not doable by design or is it just that anyone never reported getting that promotion playing it ?
I might be wrong and not recalling correctly (would that be IIDNRC in internet "slang"
?), as after all I am getting old and my memory fumbles, but I am pretty sure I've made it to Lt Col playing the Vega campaing.
I might be wrong and not recalling correctly (would that be IIDNRC in internet "slang"
?), as after all I am getting old and my memory fumbles, but I am pretty sure I've made it to Lt Col playing the Vega campaing.
overmortal
Bearded Person
Eh, no matter if you were promoted to Blair Almighty, you were writing manpower reports as soon as Geoffrey got his hands on you.
Well, I made Lt. Colonel in the Sega CD version. Also things that factor in is wingman death. The first time I ever playec wing commander, I must have gotten every pilot on the tigers claw killed.. they were dropping like flies, and I had to fly that farking medium fighter (you know, the one made out of carboard) for most all the missions, even though I usually was winning them.