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Should be able to find numerical stats in the game manuals or WCPedia somewhere. From memory, in WC3 the Ion Cannon did 30 damage and the Reaper Cannon did 35, while the Ion Cannon had a refire rate of 0.3 sec and the Reaper's was slightly less.

In WC3, the best Kilrathi pilots got to fly significantly improved versions of the usual ships. Fireclaw (Dralthi) and Stalker (Strakha) both use weapons which look like particle cannons, for example, that their ships would not ordinarily have. So you could justify making a game from a Kilrathi...

I found almost every fighter dies in one missile hit regardless in WC4, so leeching fighters seemed like more effort to me. And leech missiles take longer to lock on than most missiles... Never made much effort to leech capships before, might be an interesting thing to try.

I actually meant the Nephilim corvettes when I posted this, I'd completely forgotten that the Kamrani made an appearance in Prophecy as well. I found the Kamrani in Prophecy much easier, if you were really really patient then you could slowly take it down without really taking any damage...

Their main weaponry seemed pretty good to me. Think they have two meson guns and four reaper cannons, which can hurt you a lot in an Arrow. But it was the mines that always got me.

The autoslide was in WC3 (Arrow/Excalibur), WC4 (Banshee/Bearcat/Dragon) and in Prophecy/Secret Ops (Piranha, Panther, Vampire). I found Corvettes very easy to kill in Arrows/Excaliburs using autosliding. If you're directly behind them there's only one turret that can hit you, and it's...

WC1 - Gratha WC2 - haven't played this enough to know yet WC3 - K'Ha'Haf by a mile. Second was fighting against Flash in an Arrow, if he gets away from your missiles then he's incredibly hard to beat. WC4 - Lots of difficult ones here. Found Avengers the most difficult BW fighter to...

Three years ago I bought the same version on Ebay for £29.99 (about $60?), in brand new condition. Within a week someone accidentally broke the CD, so I looked online and bought it from Ebay again - this time for £2.99.

WC3 was the one I play most, and the fighter I struggle most against is the K'Ha'Haf asteroid fighter. They take ages to kill, have fairly decent guns, and seem to hit me with mines a lot. But my favourite is the Strakha. I always wanted to fly a similar kind of fighter, but Confed never get...

The dumbfires are also phenomenal - probably the most useful missile on any ship in WCP.

Outrun Ella in WC4 is definitely my favourite. It is one of the few missions where you need to use cloaking well to win, which is what I like best about the WC games. I really wanted to use a normal stealth fighter (ie. one with weaknesses, like the Strakha in WC3) sometime, but never really got to.

I had an extremely wierd error in one of the Circe atmospheric missions. You're meant to launch MIPs at something on the ground and then tractor them in afterwards. I managed to lose one, so I couldn't tractor it in, but it wouldn't let me autopilot without it. And because it's a planet-based...

You could only use HS or IR missiles with the arrow. Which didn't matter much, since IR missiles were so good... The best thing about the Arrow is the autoslide ability. It made the Arrow the best ship for taking out Paktahns and corvettes, barring the Excalibur.

In WC4 it was fairly good, but Neutron guns were rubbish - the Hellcat in WC3 was very much a useless short-range fighter, since Neutron guns have such a short range. The WC4 hellcat is probably equal to any of the border worlds ships you get to fly though.

Went for Flint, and it's going ok...

Completing the 'bypass ella' mission on Ace dificulty is probably my best wing commander memory ever. Let me know how you do if you choose that - it's a brilliant mission.

I somehow did this on Ace, but am completely stuck here on Hard, have given up. Maybe skipping navpoints would help, since you only really need to go to the third one... The actual number of enemies at each navpoint seems to vary on this mission. Sometimes there are two bearcats and two...

If you afterburn straight towards the turrets when you come out of autopilot, you can take them out just with guns before they fire any missiles. Get this right every time and you've got 7 enemy fighters in total to deal with, with 6 missiles. You're pretty vulnerable while you're going for the...

If I can get enough work done, I'll be there tomorrow sometime.

I played WC4 recently on "Ace" and found it hard but possible - I think I die mostly from collisions, they really really hurt in WC4. But now I'm trying it on the next difficulty up, and the second dead zone mission (Peleus 2?) is now completely impossible. I usually survive about 10 seconds...