"Fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make history. " In WC4 I'd go with the Avanger. I love the dual Stormfires.

Sosa, I really wanted to slug Catscratch during that scene in the mess hall. Sosa was just so...nice.

Remember, your own govornment can be as great a threat to frrdom as any foreign power. What Thomas Jefferson meant when he said that, is that the people must be vigilant against the govornment overstepping its bounds. Which is more important "security" or liberty?

What (aside from the survival of your species) could make you strap on a fighter and hit the void? Would it be a picture of your girlfrind or wife taped to your console that your eyes find before that last missile hits? Your family? What is worth the sacrifice?

A german pilot defected to the USSR just a week before fighting broke out. He warned his Russian captors, but his warnings were dismissed by Stalin as, "The ravings of a traitor trying to save his neck." About a week later the Wermacht war merrily thrashing the Red Army. Apparently the...

Perhaps you were thinking of Vietnam.

Tolwyn can be compared to Hitler. So can any other mass murderer. Nobody mentioned Mao. Or Pol Pot. Can't forget those examples of misplaced rage either. Or for that matter Ivan the terrible, and Ghangis Kahn. Anyone else want to add to the list? Finally-the Jewboy could find a...

The Bavarian Corporal, yup, no military genius. Of course if Stalin hadn't shot all his good officers the Bavarian Corporal's troops never would have gotten within sight of Moscow.

Actually, yes. I will be picking up my hot girlfriend from her shitty job, after having spent the entire day at a festival doing my photographer thing. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go the equipment cage draw my gear. (Yea, I saw the "j/k," I just can't resist the opportunity to...

Thisthing is on a saturday night? Nope- won't make it.

Ok, for the first time I'm going to cross universes, but it's on the topic. In the Babylon 5 Universe ship board forces use plasma based weapons, whic have little kinetic impact and take a looooong time to burn through a bulkhead. Ground based forces still use mass drive rounds for their...

I'd think it would be the oposite. I wouldn't want kinetics ricocheting on the inside of a ship until they hit something vital. In the books it is mentioned the Marines used miniguns, and flechette launchers in their assaults on the Kitty supercarriers. I guess as long a the ricochets are...

I remember hearing about an instance at the battle of Leyte GUlf , when Japanese ships engaged some CVE's inflicting little damage, because the CVE's didn't have enough armor to detonate the incomeing shells. Interesting note: one of my managers fathers flew off of the USS Santee, the CVE...

Perhaps he was refering to the US copying British steam catapults, as opposed to Hydraulic ones.

It's possible that in the time between WC4 and Prophecy Confed may have built another Fleet Carrier class other than the Vesuvius. If this were the case, I'd go out on a limb, and say that it wouldn't be as big, but still large enough to carry all the newer heavy fighter/bomber classes. The...

Landreich. They have the best beer. I also love the story with Kruger, he steals a Confed destroyer, saves a few systems, and the next time Confed gets to deal with him they can't do jack cuz he's Landreich's president. And, confed still doesn't get their destroyer back. I love happy...

CSS may have sounded a little too much like somehting from the American Civil War. Confederate States Ship or something. CSS Hunley for example.

Union of Border Worlds. Let those inferiors run. We'll hunt them down. Traitors can't hide.

Ok, valid point, but it is a heck of a lot easier to dive bomb than it is to make a torpedo run, hugging the waves, going slow, and getting bracketed by triple-A. Yes, a torpedo run can deliver greater results, but getting a good, well aimed shot of could be tricky. The best method for...

They did that because blue painted ships don't photograph well against a "Blue Screen." Also, the A-wing was originally supposed to be blue, but was changed for the same reason.