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    Operation Serpent

    That's how I always imagined the Vesuvius!
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    BREAKING NEWS: Wing Commander Academy on DVD (September 1, 2011)

    I don't understand the hangups of miniatures vs. CG being a reason not to get a Blu-Ray. There's actually *very little* miniature work in the BTTF trilogy. The effects were done optically and then mixed with digital effects for the sequels. But both created photography that creates a moving...
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    BREAKING NEWS: Wing Commander Academy on DVD (September 1, 2011)

    'Disagree' on the quality of BluRay to be insignificant with an animated show. Just as films in BluRay look like, well, actual photographs on a good television, animated material looks like, well, moving drawings. Lines are sharp. You can actually see what the artist did, as opposed to lost in...
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    GOG releases vs KS/DOSBox

    I, for one, always had my nostalgia buzz killed by the KS 'improved' sounds. So that's a reason!
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    Blue Devils Get Their Mud Pig (August 7, 2011)

    What a beast... love the Scimitar!
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    Trojan IV Naval Yard Gets Busy (July 12, 2011)

    It's a shame there wasn't a licensing deal ever worked out for models and such - but its such a competitive sort of thing anyway. I always admire this kind of stuff though! The Tiger's Claw was such a beauty and for me really became the archetype for what a space carrier would look like...
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    Privateer 2 documents

    Very clever! I wonder what the brainstorming session was like. Back then publishers cared about units shipping out that worked... I heard horror stories in the mid 2000's about games shipping that needed to be patched immediately. I don't know if those were anecdotal or not, but Origin...
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    Last Line of Defence

    What's that carrier with a hole in the top? I swear I've seen that in another fan mod. What's the hole? An elevator? Re: VLS - well, I guess it would have a bigger firing arc (if you had another cell on the bottom of the ship, too) than having a cluster pointing forward. I'm surprised no ones...
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    It's Absolutely Enormous! (July 19, 2011)

    And thus was born the strategy of parking a destroyer inside the ship and blowing it apart.
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    Prologue Video Walkthrough

    One thing is certain - I suck at Freespace!
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    Armchair Quarterbacking

    Armchair: I think putting Blair on the sidelines for all those years! If Blair had THAT high of a kill count over just a few years at the start of his career, then Enigma, and the conclusion of the war, and was basically just collecting dust for 10 years, imagine how high it COULD have...
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    Thoughts on new Star Trek movie (*spoilers!*)

    The crucial Red Matter / Super Nova / Blackhole plot device / threat didn't really grip me because it didn't seem make a good 'sense' connection for me. How does a Supernova destroy Romulas? How does a black hole destroy it? Is it the Romulan sun? Do they have a binary system? Was there some...
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    Wing Commander Music Videos and youtube

    They aren't copyright free. YouTube arranged for a way for users to put copyrighted - professional quality - music on their videos, while also keeping the music people happy by making it an advertisement/download tool for their music. It's a win-win for YouTube and the record companies/bands...
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    James S. Kirk?

    I haven't heard anything about that. The actors in the trailer clearly use Tiberious at different points, so maybe someone heard Chris Pine wrong when they heard it in the screening? I can't believe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:James_T._Kirk So much debate about whether or not...
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    Standoff Chapter Four Now Available

    Great tips. One issue is that I am using lots of fuel and running out. I realized I use way more AB fuel in the Vision engine than I did in the original games or in WC III/IV. I wonder why that is.
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    Standoff Chapter Four Now Available

    Oh my gosh. Any hints for how to survive "Clearing A Path" mission with all of those corvettes, frigates, and destroyers?
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    SWC Tiger's Claw

    Well, you don't hear much about anything else in WC1 or WC2 besides your carrier. But the impression I feel they were trying to create in game and in Claw Marks was that the Tiger's Claw was impressive, rugged, and had a history - and it was no slouch. You're right - the Lexington, as shown...
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    SWC Tiger's Claw

    Formidable, absolutely! It's just that in order to use the weapon they would have had to put themselves in a compromised position, that otherwise they could have done at a longer distance (with fighters).
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    SWC Tiger's Claw

    There's some connection - a weapon not working when you try to fire it is unsafe! Meanuvering the ship to point at the target, your CAP and your counter-strike craft moving out of the way, leaving you exposed - and in a lot closer range than you wanted to be! You could have been moving away from...
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    WC4 question

    Remember, like other's said, to switch to full guns or your other guns. Also, if you have a StormFire (use 'H' to select alternate weapons), it can be very useful! My last play through I experienced some kind of strange collision detection problem where weapons would seem to pass through...
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