The most famous WC ship

The most famous WC ship

  • Tiger's Claw

    Votes: 23 48.9%
  • Concordia

    Votes: 13 27.7%
  • Victory

    Votes: 9 19.1%
  • Intrepid

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Midway

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tarawa

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • Total voters
    47
The Concordia was the most powerful one you fly off of. (until the midway comes along).

She survived a game, two sms, one movie, and a breif appearance in the next game. The TC may have been the first ship, but WC2 was hands down the better game.

Plus from what i saw of the story line, loss of the Concordia was an extreme hit to Confed morale. EVEN after she was transferred in system.
 
The Victory. She was the carrier that took the "Heart of the Tiger" to Kilrah so he could strike the blow that ended the war. Following the war she was turned into an orbital museum. I'm sure many civilians have toured her and saw the bunk that Col. Blair, the savior of the Confederation, had while he was assigned to her. :)
 
There are three TCS Concordias: one from Action Stations (the first Concordia-class carrier), one from the movie (the first Concordia-class supercruiser) and one from Wing Commander 2 (a Confederation-class dreadnaught). Note that the 'Concordia-class carrier' originates in Wing Commander IV and not a novel...
 
But what ship would be the most famous to someone living in the 27th century? Quite possibly not any of the ships which played a major part in the games.

For example, ask a contemporary person to 'name a famous warship'. The first thing off the top of his head would probably not be the biggest baddest carrier doing frontline service in the modern navy, but would most likely be something historic like Bismarck, Arizona, Yamato, Merrimac, or PT-109. The most famous ship in the WC universe might be something like Gwenhyvar or Iason.
 
But what ship would be the most famous to someone living in the 27th century? Quite possibly not any of the ships which played a major part in the games.

For example, ask a contemporary person to 'name a famous warship'. The first thing off the top of his head would probably not be the biggest baddest carrier doing frontline service in the modern navy, but would most likely be something historic like Bismarck, Arizona, Yamato, Merrimac, or PT-109. The most famous ship in the WC universe might be something like Gwenhyvar or Iason.

Quite possibly. Fame and notoriety tends to come more from journalism and media than from the history books. The Big E did more than its fair share of @$$kicking in the Pacific Theatre and even lived to tell about it, but the iconic American ships of WW2 were probably the Arizona and the Missouri in the eyes of the public. A history buff might think otherwise. A lot of it's going to depend on what the TCN had to say to Terran news agencies; there were some great victories against difficult odds, up to the false armistice. But with the war going badly afterwards, the TCN might not have had much good news to report.

But the TCN media would definitely have played up the role of certain ships in notable engagements, since morale is important to the war effort. The Claw's role in Custer's Carnival was probably one of those Kodak moments, so to speak. So too, would the destruction of the KIS Sivar and its battle fleet by the Claw after Goddard. We don't know so much about the Concordia's role, but hadn't she been serving for a good stretch of the war, including Blair's professional exile with ISS? And what other Terran carriers survived the desperate Battle of Terra?

TCS Victory may have been the most famous ship after the war, but certainly not during. The Temblor project was basically Black Ops, after all, and Tin Can Sally certainly wasn't a particularly prestigious ship during the war (especially judging by Blair's initial reaction to his assignment there at the beginning of WC3).

Shouldn't the Tarawa have a spot in the poll, also? "First to Kilrah" must have been a good PR moment for the TCN.
 
The Victory. She was the carrier that took the "Heart of the Tiger" to Kilrah so he could strike the blow that ended the war. Following the war she was turned into an orbital museum. I'm sure many civilians have toured her and saw the bunk that Col. Blair, the savior of the Confederation, had while he was assigned to her. :)

And the stash of condoms in gunnery control :)
 
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