[ZeroCooL]

WIH is an excellent campaign is more like a FS3 I've played and say I've played many campaigns

I sometimes think that the community has to continue from the point that you will leave BP when done to so unify argument and continue the story into the 24 century and not stuck in the post capella or wear the unknowns that left FS1 and FS2

recommend you leave mysteries and expand the universe of FS to generate new arguments and thus create more campaigns that history does not die out in a lot of parallel lines

[Buckshee Rounds]

I don't think there was anything that thought out behind their decision. I mean Levi got blown up while retreating (I had to open the message log to see this) and I'd assume some other Indus Wargods didn't make it through either so there should have been room for extra fighters on the Indus.

As said above I think it was more 'honor before reason' than anything.

Yeah just being pedantic there, they knew the end was near and went down guns blazing.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's noble, as I've mentioned on the Inferno board, but it defies reason and logic.

Still, it was noble.

[General Battuta]

It's noble, as I've mentioned on the Inferno board, but it defies reason and logic.

Still, it was noble.

No on the Inferno board you said the Yangtze and the Yangtze didn't exactly have many other options.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

* Androgeos Exeunt ponders.

...oh yeah, it lost engine power and couldn't jump. I forgot.

It's not really honour before reason anymore. It's just a last stand, and a very bold one at that.

[Flak]

It is just they realize they can't run, so rather then die as cowards, they want to deal as much damage and take down as many enemies as they can with them.

[Droid803]

They didn't have to die.
Surrender's an option, but they'd rather die that do that I guess.

[-Norbert-]

The fighters would have been able to get away, but they chose to stay with their grounded mothership instead.
With the losses the Indus would have had enough room in their hangar for all surviving fighters. And even if it didn't the wargod's fighters still have jumpdrives as you can see in the mission right before Delenda Est. But since the Indus was crash-jumping they couldn't make sure everyone would come out at the same spot if they didn't land.

[-Sara-]

For me, those fighters wanting to die with the Yangtze, was symbolic for how many just gave up hope, making one last stand. It really added to that disappointment the pilots must have felt.

[Dilmah G]

Well I'm sure, despite the sense of defeat, they must have had some consolation in the fact that they would be going down fighting. That's what I really liked about it, and what I found inspiring.

Rather than interpreting it as loss of hope, I thought of it more as the opposite (though in a slightly different context). Those tev bastards had them right there, and rather than surrendering for real and thinking the battle was lost, they held their fighting spirit right until the bloody end and died as heroes - for their brothers and sisters in arms.

[crizza]

Not actually a blue planet theme, but if I disable the engines of a capital ship...let's say a Deimos...why the heck has it still full speed while two out of three engine sections are disabled?

[MatthTheGeek]

Game mechanics. The engine doesn't simulate the fact that partially disabling a ship will make it slower. It's either fully disabled, or not disabled.

[General Battuta]

Not actually true! Damage to an engine subsystem will slow a capship, apparently as far back as retail.

[Jeff Vader]

* Jeffttuta agrees with Battuta on the matter.

[MatthTheGeek]

I've tested and actually toota is right, at least in FSO. Haven't tested with retail exes.

[Mars]

IIRC it's been that way since FS1

[Spoon]

A ship with multiple engine subsystems will slow down too if you destroy one or two subsystems

[Iss Mneur]

A ship with multiple engine subsystems will slow down too if you destroy one or two subsystems

However, IIRC, they will still render as all being enabled until they are all disabled (ie. the engines will still glow). Which can be a little confusing.

[Qent]

Um no, I don't believe they do.

[Spoon]

I'm semi-completely sure the thrusters on a destroyed engine subsystem shut down when destroyed.