What's your favorite base of ops?

What is your favorite carrier?

  • Tiger's Claw

    Votes: 6 15.4%

  • Concordia

    Votes: 9 23.1%

  • Victory

    Votes: 14 35.9%

  • Lexington (WCIV)

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • Intrepid

    Votes: 5 12.8%

  • Midway

    Votes: 3 7.7%

  • Cerberus

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • Total voters
    39
From what I recall of the novel, the weakness of a Shroud was that fighter using could still be detected viusally at close range. That's what got Vagabond shot down.

BTW: The missiles fired at Locanda in the *novel* did carry cloaks. and that makes a hell of a differance. Combine that with the much better use of the Strakha's abilities by the Kilrathi pilots, and Blair and his wing were in for a much tougher time than you were in the game.

Best, Raptor
 
SPOILER WARNING
In the WC4N, Vagabond dies and Flint dies both on the final mission.In fact in the book they all die, Maniac apparently ejecting before his fighter is destroyed on the Kilrah run.Everyone should at least read the WC3 & WC4 novels if no others, chock full of stuff, I have them all but the Pilgrim one and I think they are all great. In fact I found the WCMN at a dicount book store for closeout books.
 
A few fun notes.

The Shroud device is an electronic cloak -- it jams various frequencies prevents enemy fighters from seeing your ship on their sensors, but does not visually blank out a fighter. Similar to the early Strakha Salthi seen on Wing Commander Academy (Invisible Enemy).

In the Wing Commander 3 novel, all of Blair's wingmen are shot down -- but only Flint is specifically killed. In the original draft of the novel, all three wingmen are killed... but Origin asked Keith to change it so that Vagabond and Maniac might have survived. (I actually prefer the former version as a story -- Blair trading his friends to end the war seems appropriate).

The Skipper does have a large warhead -- 60,000 damage units (6,000 cm)... it'll destroy any fighter it hits.
 
The *cloaking effect* in WC3, contradicts your statement, IIRC, the ship dissapears (textures) when you use the cloak, and you can see the wireframe of the excalibur model only
 
Is this similar to the reason that in wc4, when flying regular fighters, dragons disapear visually (in game). But When flying dragon they only disapear on sensors (lose lock etc)?

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1.the dragons have an advanced cloak detect system so that they can fly in formation and stop ramming each other every time a wing cloaks

2.corvettes only fire skipmis at the big fat dumb capships you are guarding
 
Originally posted by Ghost
I can´t remember any schematic or FMV in the PC version
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Then you obviously missed it. The specifications for the shroud device were shown for a few seconds in one of the final briefing scenes in Wing Commander III.
 
I'll save you a little bit of trouble. Here's a screen capture of the description given in the game.

shroud.gif
 
IIRC, a UBW fighter patrol gets taken out in a cutscene by a couple of Excaliburs that come out of cloak. Since the Excaliburs are already operating in a field that supresses sensor systems at the time (and thus would make a shroud system pointless), would it be correct to come to the conclusion that Confed does eventually figure out a way to put a true cloak on the Excalibur before long?

Presumably, the Excaliburs on board the Victory wouldn't have the cloak yet because...

a.) it was installed on Excaliburs after the war, and
b.) the Excalibur was so new that the use of the Shroud at Kilrah may have been the first combat test of the system.
 
junior: The Excaliburs were able to sneak up on the Banshees because the jamming field had knocked out the Banshee's sensors, not because they were cloaked.
 
I coulda sworn it showed the Excaliburs either uncloaking or cloaking on-screen.
Its been quite a while since I saw the sequence, though, so it wouldn't surprise me if I were mistaken.
 
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