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Millzy
Guest
I have never read the books for WC so I was wondering if they all have to do with Blair and Maniac or do they have a bunch of other pilots and such?
You've got the books that are tied to the games (for WC3 and WC4), and the movie books (one for the movie, plus another book around the same period of time) that have Blair and Maniac as prominent characters. I would imagine that they appear in Fleet Action as well, although I'm not certain.
The other books, however, are about entirely different characters, some of whom appear in WC games (Doomsday and Bear, for example), and some who do not.
I can't speak for the movie books, but for the Baen books I'll go through the principal characters.
Action Stations - Ensign Tolwyn, Lieutanat Vance Richards, Commander Winston Turner, Admiral Skip Banbridge, Jukaga and his dad, and that guy...who became president of the Landreich eventually.
Freedom Flight - Hobbes, Kirha, Hunter, Paladdin, K'kai
End Run - Bondarevsky(that's all I know, never read it)
Fleet Action- Admiral Tolwyn, Hunter, Bondarevsky, Doomsday, Kevin Tolwyn, Kirha, and that guy...who's the president of the Landreich.
WC3 - Everyone from the WC3 game
WC4 - Everyone from the WC4 game
False colors - Don't know never read it, but I hear it involves Bondarevsky again.
So pretty much Blair and Maniac only come in on WC3 and 4, although they're mentioned in Freedom Flight breifly.
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Millzy
Guest
thanks for the info... i've been looking for the books at used book stores when i get the change however i haven't found any yet... i could buy them online but it would take a while for them to come in... well that's according to chapters in canada (where i'm from)
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Millzy
Guest
I was wondering if Casey's callsing was ever mentioned. Like how we found that Blair's was Maverick.
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Millzy
Guest
it's shame that they never did a book about prophecy... i really like the story for that game.... Are there any books that take place after the WC4 book?
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Millzy
Guest
well it's a good thing you didn't beat around the bush and got right to the point
Chris Blair
Spaceman
Really!? I always thought False Colors was after WC4. I must have thought wrong.
Naféasonto
Swabbie
Banned
"Originally posted by Manic
Using a Wasp without it's missiles is like "doing" a hooker without a condom. You're as good as dead. "
Manic that has to be the funniest analogy I have ever read.
Nafé
Using a Wasp without it's missiles is like "doing" a hooker without a condom. You're as good as dead. "
Manic that has to be the funniest analogy I have ever read.
Nafé
LeHah
212 Squadron - "The Old Man's Eyes And Ears"
I once asked William Forstchen via E-Mail why he never did a WC
era novel. His response was:1.) Working with Baen and EA limited his ability to write a novel. He loved writing the "stand alones" like End Run and Fleet Action, but found the constraints on writing HotT and PoF too much to be anything but a chore.
2.) He thought the end he added to PoF was enough to make it a good closing to the Wing Commander saga. Not to mention, by that point we still had Action Stations and False Colors in the works.
Sadly, we'll never see those books Andrew Keith had planned.
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Millzy
Guest
I haven't read the books but I never found Tolwyn to be crazy in the game. I considered him more power hungry and wishing the war was never really over...