Bob McDob
Better Health Through Less Flavor
Was thinking recently about Wing Commander ground combat and what we know about it, so I decided to gather some information from End Run and some other sources and consolidate in in this thread. Going to update it with TCH info soon.
- Confed uses large, mech-like "walkers" which "could traverse any terrain and carried as much armament as a light corvette". They are carried by heavy weapons landers (source: End Run, page 125).
- During planetary assaults, the marines traverse to the surface in landing craft "damned near the size of a Broadsword? (i.e., around 36 meters long) and "capable of carrying up to a hundred men, two M-77 like ground assault vehicles, an array of medium caliber weapons, with a full battery of ground bombardment missiles slung to the undercarriage". The ground bombardment missiles are enough to "rip the [iTarawa[/i] apart a dozen times over" (End Run, p. 167).
- In 2667, the standard infantry weapon is the M-47 semiautomatic laser rifle, though by this point it's been mostly supplanted by nonstandard equipment, including: thirty-kilo neutron miniguns capable of firing 1000RPM and mass driver scatterguns that fire five hundred flecchettes in a single burst. The sniper scoped Stenson Drakon hunting rifle ("capable of dropping a twenty ton Vegan sabre tooth from a mile away") is also popular (End run, p. 170).
- In WCIV, during the Circe mission thread, the warring forces use hovertanks.
- The Kilrathi use giant ... drill tank ... things on Repleetah (Wing Commander Academy Episode 4: Word of Honor). They also use conventional tanks (End Run, p. 126)