What I want to do is get a hold of a bunch of cesium and throw it in a lake. Would be cool, and dangerous. Too bad francium is radioactive

That sounds pretty impressive. I'll have to stay on the look out for FS mods.

I'm sorry, I still think baby steps is the way to go. A stealth dreadnought would be very nice, but you can't jump right to that step. You have to test and evaluate the technology on a small scale, and for that purpose a frigate would be ideal. When on the losing side of a war, it really...

No, in WC3 you can't kill Hobbes until after he kills Cobra.

I know. I'm definetly not the prototypical WC fan. My favorite games are turn based strategy, so I've found the last few years of RTS and FPS games quite disappointing. But what I love most of all is a great story. That's what WC gave me that no other game has delivered on. Computer games...

Very true. In fact, a break can be the best thing for a series if the market was previously oversaturated. I don't think that was the case with WC, but the same could well hold true. If people remember WC and there is a demand for it, have faith that it will come back. And until then, we...

I just don't buy the concept of a stealth dreadnought. You have to take baby steps. Maybe Confed could start on a frigate or destroyer first. Wasting time trying to tackle a dreadnought first would keep a perfectly good dreadnought out of the war as R&D tried to perfect its stealth...

Is multiplayer really even that important for WC? Maybe I'm alone here, but to tell you the truth space shooters aren't my favorite type of game. I'm just not that much of a reflex/trigger game kinda person. The reason I love WC is the universe and plot. You start playing multiplayer, and...

A little bit of RAM (radar absorbant material) and a hopeless diamond might be the perfect solution to eliminating detection now, but in the 27th century I'm sure there will be more to stealth than RCS (radar cross section). Avoiding active sensors might be achievable, but the RAM would have to...

Yes, Tolwyn is a great example, don't know how that one slipped my mind. Man, it's been so long since I played WC4, I was really thinking that there were some friendly BW tanks on that planet as well that would have been BW Army, assuming there is such a thing. So much for my memory. It's...

Was just playing WC3 tonight. Had just brought Flint back from her little rampage in Locanda. I had requested landing clearance while slowing to a stop. My shields and hull were in perfect shape and then BOOM!!! The only explanation I can think of for my demise is that Flint's Longbow...

I don't know that it would burn fuel any faster. I'm assuming that the fighter would be exerting an equal amount of force with scoops closed or open, but with scoops open there would be a terminal velocity, with the scoops acting sorta like a parachute. Running out of fuel, he probably wasn't...

Glad to hear I have fellow Futurama lovers. Now if only it was on during football season.

Yeah, there really isn't a contradiction problem just with the marine stuff, but fan fiction can go a lot of different directions these days. The books, the games, and the movie have all put their own spin on the universe. Its kinda of nice, cause it gives you some leeway in your writing...

That still seems a little wierd, Blair could have disabled his scoops and easily beat the Snakeir because fighters have always had greater accelerations than capships, and turning off the scoops should only affect the terminal velocity. Maybe the initial velocity of the Snakeir was so great...

BTW, is the Confederation Handbook worth owning, or is it just one of those useless movie companions that was compiled by someone who probably never even saw the movie? I was thinking about getting it, but was hoping for a recommendation.

You mean, no one else thinks WC is r... gotta go, scramble alert

Use the stuff from the movie. It's all Wing Commander cannon, even though it isn't always the most consistent. Just try and keep everything in your story consistent, and in doing so you might want to favor the games over the movie or the books or vice versa. It all comes together pretty well...

No, you can definetly use a joystick in Privateer. That's assuming, of course, you have a computer that can still run dos games and a joystick that works in dos. My current computer (docked laptop) doesn't have a serial port, so I'm now stuck with a USB joystick that is useless in dos. I'm...

opps, my bad for replying when i meant to edit [This message has been edited by Wolf Dog (edited September 20, 2000).]