Wing Commander

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:09:06 GMT, Raguleader.RemoveThis@netzero.net (Jeffrey
MacHott) wrote:

>Heh, I love that movie in all it's campy glory. Though I don't think the
>broadsides happen quite so close together in the Honorverse, nor do we see
>much fighter combat, at least not until the later books.
>
>Incidentally, have you read the Wing Commander books (I think also offered by
>Baen), they're a lot of fun.
>
>TheWanderer <usenet.RemoveThis@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>>Which I hadn't seen for years was on FX today -- nice template

played the computer game at least up to the point where i found that
ramming those blasted stealth fighters was a perfectly valid way to
kill them.
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Raguleader DeleteThis @netzero.net (Jeffrey MacHott) wrote in
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> Heh, I love that movie in all it's campy glory. Though I
> don't think the broadsides happen quite so close together
> in the Honorverse, nor do we see much fighter combat, at
> least not until the later books.
>
> Incidentally, have you read the Wing Commander books (I
> think also offered by Baen), they're a lot of fun.
>
> TheWanderer <usenet DeleteThis @NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>>Which I hadn't seen for years was on FX today -- nice
>>template
>

No I havent read them -- I'll take a look, thanks!


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Brian McDonald <Brian_knowspam.McDonald DeleteThis @shaw.ca> wrote in
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> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:09:06 GMT, Raguleader DeleteThis @netzero.net (Jeffrey
> MacHott) wrote:

>>>Which I hadn't seen for years was on FX today -- nice template
>
> played the computer game at least up to the point where i found that
> ramming those blasted stealth fighters was a perfectly valid way to
> kill them.


Yeah, ramming is pretty much an entirely legitimate tactic in WC2. In
fact, the Ferret is superbly designed for ramming the Sarthi light fighters
in WC2, just wait for your sheilds to charge back up again before you go in
for another ram.
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