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The Bearcat was a truly superb fighter. The mission series where you go with Hawk's advice and raid Confed/Black Lance factories was my favorite in this game and IIRC, that's where you pick up the Bearcat fighters. I chose the other branch (support a rebellion, I think?) my first time through...

Hooray!!! Possibly the best news I've had all day! It's not been a very noteworthy news day though other than my stocks are behaving bearishly: so it's nice to end the day on a positive note.

Merry 2nd Day of Christmas/Feast of Steven!

Merry Christmas Wing Commander fans! As Tiny Tim said, God bless us every one!

Glad I could help! The Wing Commander IV missions where you have to fly the Hellcat early on against the Razors and Banshees was probably more difficult than the later missions were where you could pick a fast ship or the Dragon. Speed is life in WC4. So I guess once you get past the missions...

I know this is a few years old, but this is VERY cool! Very creative idea of having Hobbes get a yarn ball for Christmas. That's fighter pilot humor: to tease a fellow pilot like that. Few things could get you in more of a Christmas mood than a Kilrathi opening a Christmas present.

Wow, great job! I wouldn't even want to try to tackle it with a mouse. I remember spending a lot of time trying to help people beat this game on nightmare and posted tips for the series here: https://www.wcnews.com/guides/wc4hellespont.shtml. Beating Wing Commander IV on nightmare level is in my...

Excellent work!

Hey guys, wow, great to hear that! I still have fond feelings for this site and the people on it and I still check it out from time to time even though I haven't posted in a while. I started as a lurker back in 2003 or so, and for the past few years I'm a lurker again. Mostly family life has...

Hello Everyone, We're out of storage space in our house and it doesn't make sense for me to hold onto these games when I no longer have a computer that plays them. I put a lot of my time into these as you can tell from my Wing Commander Standoff kill scores :). It's with some reluctance...

This looks really impressive! I'd dreamed of playing the Kilrathi against Confed when playing the Homeworld 2 mod years ago. Does your Mod require any game other than Homeworld 2? I saw it says "Homeworld Remastered" and it's generally called a Homeworld mod and not a Homeworld 2 mod, so I...

Good poll question. I'm someone who started with WC3 in High School, WC4 as an adult, followed by WC1, and yet I chose Halcyon. I liked that it was business and felt military. It wasn't overly emotional or sappy, just to the point with only occassional jokes. I could imagine that was...

Yes, that was a very handy list, thanks for posting it Loaf. I was glad to see the Eagle on there, which I had also already modeled and didn't realize was a Wing Commander ship name. I appreciate the ones you listed Dundradal since there's a few that I didn't realize were also WW2 ship names...

I'd love to see it.

I've read the book, but had forgotten the names of those carriers. Glad I posted.

I didn't know the Ark Royal was in the games, but I happened to have already modelled that one, so cool!

Since October of last year, I've been painting the pieces of my Axis and Allies board game. I've been painting and naming the boats after actual WW2 ships and am looking for any WC ship names I may have missed. The options are WW2 transports, Destroyers, Battleships, Submarines, and Aircraft...

Another thing I just noticed from looking at the picture is that the Japanese fighter apparently has its wing breaking off and on fire as a result of the ensuing eruption. Reminds me of the Vaktoth that burns up after Blair drops the Temblor in that Kilrah cutscene.

I was reading an article in an old Popular Science magazine: http://books.google.com/books?id=_ykDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA76&dq=Japanese%20fighters%20color&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=Japanese%20fighters%20color&f=false. Starting on Page 101, you can see an article discussing dropping bombs into volcanic lava...

Sweet. This would be part of my Wing Commander Holy Grail list: to acquire that Rapier from Luxembourge, integrate a huge computer monitor into the front, and stick this joystick inside of it.