In WC1 and WC2 about 60% of the damage I incurred was due to collisions with Kat fighters. I too was just horrible about matching speed.
I get killed a lot by kamikaze Kilrathi in those games too... other than that though I'm pretty good at stuff like Standoff, I don't go crazy and suicidally follow one target while getting shot at or anything like that. But I've been playing Wing Commander for 12 years so it's only natural ;-P.
Btw I love the 1 hit missile kills in WC4. In earlier games I tended to just ignore missiles and let them bounce off my shields. WC4 though you spend half the engagement flying like crazy and screaming "oh frak oh frak oh frak running running running..." while the missile lock alarm is blaring in your headphones. You can get creamed pretty easily in even the slightest skirmish.
I get killed a lot by kamikaze Kilrathi in those games too... other than that though I'm pretty good at stuff like Standoff, I don't go crazy and suicidally follow one target while getting shot at or anything like that. But I've been playing Wing Commander for 12 years so it's only natural ;-P.
Btw I love the 1 hit missile kills in WC4. In earlier games I tended to just ignore missiles and let them bounce off my shields. WC4 though you spend half the engagement flying like crazy and screaming "oh frak oh frak oh frak running running running..." while the missile lock alarm is blaring in your headphones. You can get creamed pretty easily in even the slightest skirmish.