Well, the Bearcat does look like a pancake. In terms of efficiency, however, it's probably my favorite WC4 fighter. Nearly useless in the hands of a newbie pilot, and Flying Death once you know how to fly it. I use the Bearcat whenever I can. Some tips : First, deactivate the repair system...

Well, apparently, you were right about the Vesuvius scramble mission, Mancubus. Thanks - that had been bugging me for ages. :p

Apparently, you've got to destroy a lot more ships than I thought - sometimes you don't have enough missiles to be able to leech everything (in some Confed missions), sometimes you can't win if you don't destroy at least a few targets (like the mission where you have to capture the space lab)...

Say, has anyone ever tried to do a full "Pacifist Run"? As in, finishing the game while taking care to destroy as few ships as possible? Talking about all this makes me want to try it.

Hmm. Interesting - I did check a lot of things but it's possible that I forgot to check the Telamon choice. We'll see. :) Gagarin : Well, yes, actually, you used a slightly different version of the strategy I described above. The only way to damage Seether with guns is to shoot him when...

Because today is my birthday, and I decided to replay WC4 yet again. -I told y'all some time ago that the Vesuvius scramble mission had you fly a Banshee if you went to Speradon, and a Dragon if you went to Circe. Apparently, that's not entirely true. You fly a Banshee if you won the "leech...

Both the "regular" Ferret and the "Super" Ferret are very powerful, though - possibly my favorite WC2 ships. If I manage to do better in a Wraith than in a Ferret, then I'll really be impressed.

It's not like there's any glory in killing Kilrathi either, is there? Usually players fight for "kills" to show that they are good pilots, not because they want to obliterate everything. But anyway, one of the (many) things I like about WC4 is the Leech weapons. You can choose to spare many...

Aww, don't give up so easily. Seriously, missiles in WC4 are so powerful that things like this can happen. It's entirely possible that Maniac toasted 3 ships with missiles while you were busy trying to kill one with guns. Also, as I said before, you have to train quite a bit before you can...

Ah, thanks. Quarto said a while ago that "nothing was ever as unbalanced as the Academy Wraith" (EDIT : whoops, it was Eder, actually), which is why I asked. Since I felt WC2 lacked a superfighter, I'm sure flying the Wraith will be an interesting experience.

Really? I thought you could hit Tab to afterburn in the WC3/WC4 engine. Then you can just move the mouse to turn around... It works in WC4, and I do believe it works in WC3.

I have yet to play Academy, and I will not try Armada until I get a joystick. Of the WC games I have, hmm, probably WC3, but only because I can't get it to work properly with my current computers. Slightly off-topic... Since you mentioned the Wraith, is it true that the Academy Wraith is the...

Yep, it was. By the way, here's a link to the original post in case anyone cares.

While the Avenger itself was one big, awkward slug, I thought its guns (both main ones and alternate ones) were really good. Even the Leech guns can be useful when fighting Dragons (because the Avenger is so slow, you usually don't have time to inflict much damage with guns before the Dragon can...

In order to celebrate this update, I'm posting an interesting, over-eight-year-old quote : "You'd need a hell of a computer to handle all those ships... ...And you'd need to be a hell of a pilot to make a difference. Most of us would probably be forced to eject within minutes of the start...

Well... I play WC4 with a mouse, so I may not be very qualified to give advice, but I do remember that it took me quite a bit of training before being able to hit WC4 fighters in a reliable way on Ace difficulty (especially the pirate Arrows). :p If you really can't hit fighters on easiest...

Well, that's kind of the point of taunts, isn't it? They randomly make your enemies forget about their targets... Instead, they go really mad at you. :p

Thanks! As I said, taunts can help a lot in this mission, because you need to be close enough to an enemy ship to shoot it, whereas taunts have a loooong range. Also, I don't think the successfully "taunted" ships will ever attack the Clydesdales again.

...So, after Dundradal told me about Hero difficulty making your wingmen much smarter, I actually decided to try it, and I replayed the losing missions in Episode 1. And I won the pirate base mission after going through through the losing missions. Your wingmen really are much smarter, and...

WC3 : I think I would have given the player an alternate way of completing the game, some kind of hard optional path that *doesn't* involve bombing Kilrah. Kind of like Outrun Ella, only it would have been several really hard missions. Bombing Kilrah felt so callous that I thought it was kind...