Prophecy Multiplayer Project Tests Out Team Play

Testing continues on HCl's Prophecy Multiplayer Upgrade. The newest feature is the implementation of teams in combat. Utilizing leftover code from Prophecy's original multiplayer modes, HCl has been able to assign separate wings to duel it out online. Free-for-all is fun, but the team element adds more strategy and tactics to the mix. In one round, a bomber wing with a Shrike and Devastator held up surprisingly well against Vampire and Panther attackers. The extra shields and turrets allowed the less nimble craft to hold their ground until one of their adversaries was finished. With the odds improved to 2:1, the bombers were able to work together to deal out the hurt. Improvements are being made each and every week, although difficult coding and bug mitigation still remains to clean things up.

Fongsaunder Sketches Capture Of Kilrathi Pilots

We've all been bored during class at some point in our lives, but how many of us have produced sketches of full Wing Commander images? Well fongsaunder sure did, sketching a scene with the slightly unusual combination of a WC Movie style carrier with Prophecy era fighters. There's lots of asteroids and plenty of tractor beam action going on in this image, but the best person to explain is the artist himself.

The picture shows the TCS Atari, an old, recommissioned Bengal-class strike carrier with it's old refit (WC Movie). The ship was recommissioned to anti-pirate duty to engage and destroy pirates in space. The timeframe was pre/post-Prophecy as the Prophecy ships have come in service (Piranha, TigerShark, Wasp, Seahawk and Condor.) The ship, now in an asteroid field, retrieving ejector pods from downed CultOfSivar pilots hunted down by the Atari's fighters an hour before. I dont know how to draw a kilrathi insignia so I made up a CultOfSivar insignia. Also note the wing of one of the Dralthis is actually the WC1 "Pancake" Dralthi.

More about the Atari:
T.C.S Atari CV-96354-AT(fan idea)
Sent into combat during the early stages of the Kilrathi war. Five months in service, she was hit by Kilrathi torpedo bombers and was heavily damaged. By the time she was fully repaired, the new Bengal class carriers (refitted) were already in service. She was kept in storage and her hull has been re-used by the end of the Border Worlds conflict as anti-pirate ships to save Confed Command some credits into building newer and more expensive Vesuvius/Midway class Super/Megacarriers.