Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Re: Arrow comments. I've always liked the inference in the novels that there are both short range interceptor variants of the Arrow and long-range patrol Arrows (presumably what we fly in the games).
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
A scramble is when you launch the carrier's ready group. A magnum launch is when you launch the entire complement (or as much of it as you can).
Originally posted by ChrisReid
With that in mind.. then in the magnum launches we fly in the games we could be flying anything and everything.. including the long range Arrows.
Originally posted by StarLight
Would that include Longbows? On one of the escort missions with the Victory where a Skip-missile is launched at I once flew the Longbow. Boy was it a pig compared to the Arrow for the mission, but it indeed was a lot of fun. It also looked funny to see the Victory getting escorted by 2 bombers.
It's only a good choice since you know in advance what's coming at you. I think it would be silly to use only bombers for escort duty. If bombers were needed at some point, I asssume they'd be launched when necessary, with lighter fighters carrying out point-defence and thus being the ones escorting a carrier during movements. Of course, I know the difference between 'game' and 'realistic' situations is very large!Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Actually, the Longbow is a good choice for that mission -- since you end up going against a Kilrathi carrier.
Originally posted by TCSTigersClaw
Well Im sure that there where other escorts too ,but
"we cant see them" in the game
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
You're probably all too young to remember the mission load times for Wing III -- three or four minutes on a 486, ten plus minutes on a 386... a bunch of redshirts hanging around for no reason wouldn't have contributed much.
In WC-dom, though, the other wings are probably spread out flying patrols. For every mission you fly, there's probably ten to twenty other wings out doing similar things.
Man, your 486 musta been one LAME machine, or else it was outfitted with that famous S3 graphix "decelerator" card (whose name escapes me at the moment): The longest I ever waited for a mission to load was maybe a minute. At most. Occasionally. In bad weather. And I only had a 486-DX2-66...Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
You're probably all too young to remember the mission load times for Wing III -- three or four minutes on a 486...
Yer fortunate, laddie. Yet, some of us have managed to even get WC4 working on said 486-66 and it ran reasonably well!Originally posted by Aries
i never played WC3 on a 486
Originally posted by Preacher
Man, your 486 musta been one LAME machine, or else it was outfitted with that famous S3 graphix "decelerator" card (whose name escapes me at the moment): The longest I ever waited for a mission to load was maybe a minute. At most. Occasionally. In bad weather. And I only had a 486-DX2-66...
Yet, some of us have managed to even get WC4 working on said 486-66 and it ran reasonably well!