The most loathed startfighter ever.

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Did anyone ever notice the "bad luck ships" in Privateer 2? Some ships, like the Freijj Mk 2 and the Faldari were straight up bad luck. Everywhere i flew around in those i would get attacked at almost every nav point, so i had to sell them immediatly.


As for the rest of Wing Commander, the worst flyable ship of all time is probably the Dralthi from Secret Missions 2. Essentially a Scimitar with worse visibility and shielding.
 
I liked the Dralthi - I think it was because the mass drivers were so close together. It just felt good.
 
You know what would be a great ship? A Krant with mass drivers. Seriously.

The problem is that the Kilrathi have a dictatorial, centralized, planned economy. So a few autocrats (authokats) decide how to allocate resources, poorly choosing to put to many on the Jalthi, which is your typical bad ship design. Even a Scimitar and the Dralthi mk 2 have mass drivers, so it's not the most expensive weapon ever. But since the Jalthi was a ship for the nobles (and this is from WC1), it gets more resources than it deserves.
 
I don't recall the Jalthi having mass drivers. IIRC, it's armament was 2 neutron guns and 4 lasers.

But a Krant with mass drivers would have been quite the killer.
 
Hehe, it isn't such a crazy jump, since it would about the same thing they did with the Dralthi.
 
The handbook lists a bunch of great Kilrathi ships that we never see and one that looks like it was still in animatic form for the movie (but was discarded). :(
 
Bandit LOAF said:
It isn't a jump - they talk about it in the Confed Handbook. I'd just like to see it in action. (G)

Wow, cool, I thought you was making that up to prove a point. :)

Yeah, that sounds very cool. :cool:

One question: Where is the Krant's cockpit? In the middle, or on the two "horns" of the ship? Sometimes on the game it looked as if it had 2 cockpits.
 
Judging from the Claw Marks schematics, and the targeting picture that comes up on the VDU, I'd say the Krant has two cockpits, one at the base of each horn.

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True, but if there's only one, that would mean the cockpit is offset. I know it's been done at least once on a British fighter from the 50s, but having an offset cockpit strikes me as adding difficulty to both flight and gunnery. Furthermore, when you target a Krant in WC1, there are a pair of blue ovals at the base of the horns. Judging from the VDU screens of other ships, those blue ovals represent the cockpits.
 
The Germans had a number of aircraft with offset cockpits in World War II.

Still, even if the Krant has two cockpits (one for a pilot, one for a RIO) it's still going to be flown by someone at an offset position (G)
 
Bandit LOAF said:
Still, even if the Krant has two cockpits (one for a pilot, one for a RIO) it's still going to be flown by someone at an offset position (G)

Heh heh. An excellent point. :D
 
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