[WMCoolmon]

"I can live with being a pawn if the game makes sense!"

The pawn (♙♟) is the weakest and most numerous piece in the game of chess, representing infantry, or more particularly armed peasants or pikemen.

[Snail]

Hehe, funny...

[Mobius]

It's not "forced" at all.  The entirety of the mission consists of a stroke of good luck that saves the GTA from having to worry about the HoL outpost.  The mission debriefing states as much in no uncertain terms.  While it's true that many missions feature sudden situational changes that require updated objectives, La Ruota Della Fortuna was one of the only examples I can think of where the change was to the GT(V)A's benefit.  And I don't see how the title works for Clash of the Titans II in the least; that mission had no unexpected twists and nothing to do with luck.

Considering the fact that Singh was able to fill a whole thread connecting mission name references to the events of said missions would suggest that the names aren't "vague" in any sense.  The designers knew what they were doing when choosing the names, and many of them contain quite clever historical references.

I have never excluded the presence of coincidences: I consider pointless discussions like "Their finest hour...is the "they" refered to the Shivans or the GTVA?" that are the result of an exaggerate analysis.

[General Battuta]

Exaggerated analysis? There was definite intent behind the naming of these missions.

[Mobius]

Discussing the word "they" and its meaning in the context was exaggerate.

[Colonol Dekker]

Yep, it was. Entertaining though. . Has anyone wondered if the missing numbers in the TSM series are meant for non-pilot roles?

[Mobius]

You lol

Non pilot...and non military roles, I think.

[Colonol Dekker]

Lol that is exactly the sort of thing i had in mind, i just crashed my roflcopter.

[WMCoolmon]

Whoops, moved it to another thread to keep from derailing this one: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52358.0.html