Where are the arrow fans?

I take the Arrow for missions that need speed--either the escort missions or the defent-the-Victory missions, or ones that go up against lots of Darket or Strakha fighters. For missions that involve going up against capships, I prefer the Thunderbolt. I tend to skip the Longbow entirely when possible since it is near impossible to fight Darkets or Strakhas in it unless you can get a lucky shot with a missile.
 
Re: Arrow comments. I've always liked the inference in the novels that there are both short range interceptor variants of the Arrow and long-range patrol Arrows (presumably what we fly in the games).
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Re: Arrow comments. I've always liked the inference in the novels that there are both short range interceptor variants of the Arrow and long-range patrol Arrows (presumably what we fly in the games).

It's also reasonable to assume that the interceptor version should be the one used on emergency scrambles.

On a side not is an emergency scramble the same thing as a magnum launch? Towlyn orders a Magnum Launch in the first Torgo System, where they were about to rendezvous with destiny.
 
A scramble is when you launch the carrier's ready group. A magnum launch is when you launch the entire complement (or as much of it as you can).
 
Arrow fans are usually floating around in escape pods 'cause they can't take a hit.;)
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
A scramble is when you launch the carrier's ready group. A magnum launch is when you launch the entire complement (or as much of it as you can).

With that in mind.. then in the magnum launches we fly in the games we could be flying anything and everything.. including the long range Arrows.
 
Originally posted by ChrisReid
With that in mind.. then in the magnum launches we fly in the games we could be flying anything and everything.. including the long range Arrows.

Would that include Longbows? On one of the escort missions with the Victory where a Skip-missile is launched at I once flew the Longbow. Boy was it a pig compared to the Arrow for the mission, but it indeed was a lot of fun. It also looked funny to see the Victory getting escorted by 2 bombers.
 
Originally posted by StarLight
Would that include Longbows? On one of the escort missions with the Victory where a Skip-missile is launched at I once flew the Longbow. Boy was it a pig compared to the Arrow for the mission, but it indeed was a lot of fun. It also looked funny to see the Victory getting escorted by 2 bombers.

Actually, the Longbow is a good choice for that mission -- since you end up going against a Kilrathi carrier. :)

But, yeah, a magnum launch would include Longbows... although, even a regular scramble on the Victory would include Longbows. According to the WCIV novel, Eisein's wartime ready group layout included a flight of bombers for striking back at a potential enemy force.
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Actually, the Longbow is a good choice for that mission -- since you end up going against a Kilrathi carrier.
It's only a good choice since you know in advance what's coming at you. :) I think it would be silly to use only bombers for escort duty. If bombers were needed at some point, I asssume they'd be launched when necessary, with lighter fighters carrying out point-defence and thus being the ones escorting a carrier during movements. Of course, I know the difference between 'game' and 'realistic' situations is very large!
 
Well Im sure that there where other escorts too ,but
"we cant see them" in the game ;)
 
Originally posted by TCSTigersClaw
Well Im sure that there where other escorts too ,but
"we cant see them" in the game ;)

Were they testing cloaking devices on the Victory as well???

I think that was what was good about WCP and WCSO when escorting and stuff where there were additional ships, like those from CAP. I also want to know where the Victory's escorts disappeared to. I'm sure making a run for the jump point wouldn't involve sending off your escorts with fighters. Because when you make the jump the cut scene once agains shows the escorts jumping as well. Surely they couldn't cloak destroyers as well???
 
You're probably all too young to remember the mission load times for Wing III -- three or four minutes on a 486, ten plus minutes on a 386... a bunch of redshirts hanging around for no reason wouldn't have contributed much. :)

In WC-dom, though, the other wings are probably spread out flying patrols. For every mission you fly, there's probably ten to twenty other wings out doing similar things.
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
You're probably all too young to remember the mission load times for Wing III -- three or four minutes on a 486, ten plus minutes on a 386... a bunch of redshirts hanging around for no reason wouldn't have contributed much. :)

In WC-dom, though, the other wings are probably spread out flying patrols. For every mission you fly, there's probably ten to twenty other wings out doing similar things.

1) Nope,I think most of us played WingCommander 3 at a 486 ! :)

2) I think that in the "real" thing ,there where also lots of other Fighters along with Blair`s wing on strike missions or escorts,even if we dont see them in games,cause the Engine couldt handle so many fighters
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
You're probably all too young to remember the mission load times for Wing III -- three or four minutes on a 486...
Man, your 486 musta been one LAME machine, or else it was outfitted with that famous S3 graphix "decelerator" card (whose name escapes me at the moment): The longest I ever waited for a mission to load was maybe a minute. At most. Occasionally. In bad weather. And I only had a 486-DX2-66...
 
Originally posted by Aries
i never played WC3 on a 486
Yer fortunate, laddie. Yet, some of us have managed to even get WC4 working on said 486-66 and it ran reasonably well!
 
Originally posted by Preacher
Man, your 486 musta been one LAME machine, or else it was outfitted with that famous S3 graphix "decelerator" card (whose name escapes me at the moment): The longest I ever waited for a mission to load was maybe a minute. At most. Occasionally. In bad weather. And I only had a 486-DX2-66...

You were lucky then.. most people had to wait at least several minutes. A notable difference was if you had 16 megs of ram. But if you had 8, you had to wait. The big missions, even on a 486, would sometimes near 10 minutes of load time for me. As I progressed in the game, I would end up just leaving the computer and going to watch tv for a while until I heard Rollins yelp.
 
Anyone played the Amiga500 version of Wc1 ?? ;)

thats was my first contact with Wc......also loooooong loading waiting,but not as loooong as Wc3 at a 486 ;)
 
Yet, some of us have managed to even get WC4 working on said 486-66 and it ran reasonably well!

Wing 4 was better optimized than Wing 3 -- the actual system requirements were lower.
 
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