Some quick WC questions

Eder

Eder

Mr. Standoff
Okay, I hope someone can help me with these... they've just been bugging me for a long long while :( I'm asking these questions because I'm trying to add a more accurate atmosphere to the WCS storyline.

1- What is the official designation of the Raptor and Hornet? I mean, do they actually have one? Everywhere I've looked, the WC1 fighters seem to be referenced just by their nicknames.
2- Are there "official" squadron designations, like, I don't know..... for example: VF-100 "Killer Bees"? Or would that be just "Killer Bees" and that's that?
3- Supposing that there aren't any scramble missions (and that human race isn't about to be exterminated by some huge alien fleet or somesuch :p), how often does a Confed pilot fly? I'm guessing that it can't be that often, since there are pilots that have been on the line of duty for like 30 years... I don't think anybody would last that long flying, say, one mission a day.

Thanks in advance,
--Eder
 
Originally posted by Eder
Okay, I hope someone can help me with these... they've just been bugging me for a long long while :( I'm asking these questions because I'm trying to add a more accurate atmosphere to the WCS storyline.

1- What is the official designation of the Raptor and Hornet? I mean, do they actually have one? Everywhere I've looked, the WC1 fighters seem to be referenced just by their nicknames.
Click to expand...

We don't know the designations of the Raptor and Hornet. They have them, we just don't know what they are. Other WC1 Fighters have designations. The Rapier II is the F-44 and according to the handbook the Scim is the CF-105


2- Are there "official" squadron designations, like, I don't know..... for example: VF-100 "Killer Bees"? Or would that be just "Killer Bees" and that's that?
Click to expand...

I'm rather sure there are squadron designations. We know that squadrons are transfered around independant of Wings, so it would make sense for them to have a numerical designation. I cannot, however, find proof of that right now. There are definately wing designations as there are some in VS. Also the WC3 novel notes that the Victory's wing is Flight Wing 36.


3- Supposing that there aren't any scramble missions (and that human race isn't about to be exterminated by some huge alien fleet or somesuch :p), how often does a Confed pilot fly? I'm guessing that it can't be that often, since there are pilots that have been on the line of duty for like 30 years... I don't think anybody would last that long flying, say, one mission a day.
Click to expand...

It really depends on the situation. Blair spent 10 years patroling a system where there was generally no enemy activity. They got to do fun things like escorting garbage scows. In a heavily disputed, or behind enemy lines situation pilots sometimes fly multiple times a day. When there's no war on, flying is done less and less to save money on fuel and repairs and because they aren't required. Pilots like Blair definately flew thousands of missions. Space, however, is big, and the enemy isn't always encountered. Those veterans that survived from circa WC1 and before were also remarkably good pilots with huge kill scores.

TC

Thanks in advance,
--Eder [/B][/QUOTE]
 
If you look into the timelines and dates just before the mission briefings, the missions generally happen every four-eight days. This is pretty much the same for most Air Forces here, current time. Spend a bit of time flying the ship, the rest of the time flying a desk :)

You'll notice that WC2 takes place between 2665.110 - 2667.077 - almost 2 years. So assume 700 days, asnd you only fly 40 missions shown in the game - that only really works out to 1 mission ever 17 days.

This is where what I am planning on doing comes in - putting missions in between all these gaps where they might make for a more interesting storyline with a few sub-plots.

Eder, I believe the Raptor desig was mentioned in one of the WC1 briefings. I'll have to go have a look for you, as I need to pull out the entire storyline/talking from the game at some point anyway.
Does anyone know if there are any mission selectors for WC1/2KS ?
 
but if you look some of the other things happen much closer together, like I think 1 game or another is happinging during a period of a few days
 
Raptor and Hornet don't have designations given in any source material.

The squadrons in WC1 are never given designators (actually, very few squadrons in WC are...) -- but they are part of the 88th Fighter Wing (88 FW)

Pilots seem to fly about a mission a day, which is mostly routine patrols.
 
I'm pretty sure that in WC all of the missions you fly skip the patrol missions, as that would get boring... am I right?
 
Flying missions where nothing happened time after time wouldn't make for much of a game would it?

Doesn't all of WC4 take place over just a week a two? I'll have to check on the intro where Talwyn goes on about his investigations. Anyway, the missions come in pretty thick and fast towards the end of the game. Ok, that's not Confed crew or anywhere near a full pilot compliment but you fly an awful lot more than once a day then.
 
Yeah, I think it is supposed to be two weeks between the time Blair walks into the bar and when he goes back to Earth to confront Tolwyn.

Or something like that.
 
In the origional WCI (don't know about KS version), it gave the date of the briefing before it began. Of course, I was all of 7 years old at the time and I don't remember the dates. :p
 
Originally posted by Dralthi5
Yeah, I think it is supposed to be two weeks between the time Blair walks into the bar and when he goes back to Earth to confront Tolwyn.

Or something like that.
Click to expand...

Maybe less because the news come too late to Nephele according the WCIV book that comes with the game
 
I go to school right by a reserve air force base. The squadron is the tulsa vipers and they fly f-16's. I have actually gone to lunch with some of the pilots from that squadron and they said they fly about every other day or every 3 days on just routine patrol missions and such. However lately (and big news here sorta) the squadron is getting ready to deploy to iraq to enforce the no fly zone and they have been flying a ton more missions. I haven't actually asked one of the pilots but before they were probobly putting up about 2 patrols from 7:30am to 2:30 am of 4 planes each. Now they put up anywhere from 4+ and sometimes they even send more than 4 planes. Before they would pretty much fly with a "clean" airframe but now they go up with tons of ordanance and stuff and i don't mean the orange colored training missiles like normal either. So I bet every pilot is flying at least one mission a day now plus spending a lot of time in survival school and such. Just to give you an indication of how current fighter standards may hold up to wing commander
 
WC4 is exactly two weeks.

We skip all the missions where you don't encounter hostiles, though... except for a pair of missions in the patched version of the Armada gauntlet <G>
 
Then load up Armada with the patch... play through the gauntlet a bit and get a password... then load it with the password -- the first mission is to fly to your carrier in an Arrow or a Dralthi, and nothing happens:)
 
LOL Supdon.

Right.

/me makes note. I'm SO going to put that into my WC project :) Escort a garbage ship off Caernavon, where nothing happens :)
 
It HAS to happen so why not surprise us by having a mission that goes completely by the books? You'll keep expecting to get jumped right up untill you land.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top