Thrakhath's ship...

I thought he only jumps out if you don't activate the cloak before leaving the last nav point? (i.e., when you end up facing infinite waves)

Thrak was actually quite good back in WC2. In WC3, his fighter seems just too fragile. One time, I accidentally collided into him when decloaking... he died.
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yeah... the frontal armor on the new 'fang is beyond bad. The rear armor is a different story. Better than a Dragon if I remember correctly, although the shields arent quite up there. Sort of disenhartening when you unload a pair of imrecs point blank and he still comes out in decent shape. I usually sneak up on Hobbes first due to a deep hatred of tailguns, so the rear armor on the Bloodfang isnt that much of a problem.

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You deal death with your roars and your screams, your threats, your taunts, your overblown ego. I hand it out, one with the steel and the silence, the blackness around me, with a thought.
 
Quarto, I think when you bump a fighter, it blows; I've tried this before with Longbows and Tbolts I sped up to 10 or so kps and bumped my wingman, making them eject. Thrakhath is a poor pilot because he rarely flies anymore during WC3, this has been written. He realy doen't fly well because he was given poor AI, and the Bloodfang is better armored than Excaliburs by far if I recall. While an exceptional Kilrathi fighter, the BF is not quite on par with the Excalibur one on one imo.
 
Sneak up on Hobbes? Tsk, tsk. That's just not right.

But I always sneak up behind Thrak, and it doesn't take all that much to kill him. And before EW suggests it, no I'm not playing on Easy.
 
Of course you dont kill Hobbes if you sneak up on him. You just inflict insane amounts of damage on his ship, waste the escorts, give Thrak a little bit of love in a head-on pass (dual ImRecs and full guns), then toy with Hobbes in his crippled little ship for being a traitor (even an unwilling one. The Kilrathi are supposed to have honor, so where do double agents fit in? He deserves to die screaming in fear. Well, so does Thrak, which is why we have something called a "taunt"...)

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Hey, be a bit more understanding. Ralgha need not have known what the personality overlay would be about (the information about his mission could well have been triggered together with his real personality). Who knows, maybe he went to sleep as Ralgha, and then woke up as Hobbes because they had put something in his Suk'har Mayya
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At any rate, Ralgha seemed to be well aware that he had dishonoured himself (listen to or read the Hobbes explanation). Apparently, he felt that that was a worthy sacrifice, to save his homeworld...
 
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i kinda agree with quarto. before i saw the hobbes explanation thing, i had always just figured it was his own choice. he saw what the kilrathi were doing as the wrong path for his race, but he wasn't about to assist in the destruction of his homeworld, where he still had a family if i'm not mistaken. thats one thing i kind of like about WC, confed is realistic. those goody goody star trek federation guys would never blow up someones homeworld. Confed did it because it was best for them, not neccesarily because it was what was right. though not especially nice, it was realistic.
 
Well, strictly speaking, Hobbes wouldna have any family on Kilrah. He comes from Hhallas.
Furthermore, we don't know if Hobbes even had a family. He says he does in WC2, but FF indicates that they all died. <shrug> Who knows?
 
It comes down to which you believe, WC2 or FF.

Confed had no choice in the matter, they played the war on moralistic terms(in theory) but when the Kilrathi came up with the false peace, the inevitable victory was lost unless Confed further reduced itself to the Kilrathi level.
 
Actually he does have a family…..Kirha, who’s still alive at that time is a part of his clan. So there’s no need to question FF.
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Hmm... I gather you don't understand the difference between family and Clan, Earthworm? Kirha is not family. He's a retainer. Just because you belong to someone's Clan doesn't mean you belong to their family. In Kirha's case, it was said that he didn't... or maybe it wasn't. I don't remember
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I do belive that Hobbes said Kirha was a part of his family, not just his clan. I'm reading PS right now, so when I'm done I'll check FF.
 
Quoting from FF. Kirha says: "My family has served your hrai for over ten generations."
He later adds... "All of your hrai were killed on that ship on Hhallas, several years ago. Most of my family, their retainers, died that day as well."

So, you don't need to check anything
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Furthermore, Kirha wasn't even born as a retainer -- he was sworn to Ralgha by his father at a young age.
 
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