[Excalibur]

It's so much better to be killed in the Supernova, or just order all your men not to attack that Cain (or is it Lulith) class ship.

The captain's speach is so much more inspiring when he talks about the death of Alpha 1

Hah, I laughed at that. "He was a brave man, going back to help the last (doomed) ships through the node, sacrificing himself for the sake of others."

Alpha 1: OH****OH****OH****THENODEISFIVEKILOMETRESAWAYANDIHAVETWENTYSECONDS

"He was a coward, and died trying to escape. He didn't really try to save others."

And how can you save people from a supernova? it's not like he rammed the ships so they went faster.

btw, what does "godspeed" mean?

[lenard27]

Godspeed is just going really fast I think. Gods are all powerful beings so they should be able to move pretty fast when they want to. Of course thats like a 12-year olds definition of it.

[Mongoose]

As a matter of fact, the word's roots have nothing to do with one's speed.  It's used to wish someone a successful journey.

[Excalibur]

Makes sense.

[Agent_Koopa]

"He was a coward, and died trying to escape. He didn't really try to save others."

And how can you save people from a supernova? it's not like he rammed the ships so they went faster.

btw, what does "godspeed" mean?

I think the implication was that you were trying to save the ships from the Dragons which posed no threat to them. I personally, always end up attempting to corkscrew my way to safety when the supernova hits.

[ssmit132]

OFF-TOPIC: How many Australian FreeSpace players are there ?! 

OFF-TOPIC: Me. Not as in 'only me', as in 'I'm one'

[colecampbell666]

Godspeed means "Go with God" or "Good luck".

[AlphaOne]

About the command authority of an officer! There have been some rare instances where single warships captains were given command over ana entire fleet or multiple fleets! They were the supreme overall commander and all decisions made by admirals would have to go through him even if he was in fact a much lower rank! However by said captain beeing given command over a fleet or more and subsequently over they admiral or comanding officer they have at least temporaryli obrained a much higher rank!

Admirals dont necesarily command a fleet ! An entire fleet can be commanded by someone with a much lower rank ! Like a cammander or something like that!

[Grizzly]

Just about Battlecruiser AD 3000. Its a pretty decent game, the only problem was that the first version was released without the developers being told... (Now THATS the way to do it!)

The patched version was much nicer (once you understood it, the game has a steep learning curve). See HOTU.

But indeed, Derek Smart's beheaviour here is not... enterirly correct...

[Snail]

The thing I find annoying in some fan-made missions and in Their Finest Hour is that 10,000 (in the case of TFH), 30,000 people can't all have the same opinion to sacrifice themselves. It just makes the commanding officer of the Colossus a complete mother****ing son of a mother****ing ***** who decides to sacrifice 30,000 lives to give the Bastion 5 seconds.

(sorry if this is a little off-topic I just wanted to say it)

[karajorma]

Yet another person who fails to understand that the Colossus was disabled and couldn't jump out if it wanted to anyway.

[Snail]

I understand that, but I just like to think of TFH as the original plot (the one without the failed beam-frees and with the crappy ****).

But still, take another example, like the Repulse. Could all 10,000 people on that destroyer want to die for Neo-Terra?

[castor]

Its war. Probably most of the 70 million people that died in WW2 wouldn't choose to do so either, if asked

[Snail]

Another example was in a mission I played a while ago in which an entire destroyer's crew decided to defect without questioning the crew (only the comm. officer said anything, and then changed IFF).

[Jeff Vader]

Just about Battlecruiser AD 3000. Its a pretty decent game, the only problem was that the first version was released without the developers being told... (Now THATS the way to do it!)

The patched version was much nicer (once you understood it, the game has a steep learning curve). See HOTU.

But indeed, Derek Smart's beheaviour here is not... enterirly correct...

...a what, now? I don't think dsmart was related to this topic. Hold on, I'll check.

Nope, couldn't find anything relating to him here.

[karajorma]

I'd have said it got lost from the FS3 topic if it weren't for the fact that he replied to that one a minute later too.

[Agent_Koopa]

Yet another person who fails to understand that the Colossus was disabled and couldn't jump out if it wanted to anyway.

You may find your warship disabled while trying to act as a decoy! And you may ask yourself: "How did I get here?"

That mission does not make sense. For instance, the Rampart flies through the node then decides to turn back to fight some more Shivans. Evidence of an Improbability field floating in from deep space, I think.

[karajorma]

If you don't have your subspace drives active I can't think why you couldn't fly through a node.

The mission is basically crippled by the fact that made some last minute changes to the mission including disabling the Colossus.

[colecampbell666]

Can't a ship jump without sub-light engines? I thought that it had been done elsewhere in the campaign.

[Agent_Koopa]

If you don't have your subspace drives active I can't think why you couldn't fly through a node.

That's not what I meant. The Rampart, an Aeolus-class cruiser, flies straight at the node while blasting flak at Shivans, proceeds through it after all Shivans have been killed, and only when it is clear on the other side does it occur to the captain to turn around.

Can't a ship jump without sub-light engines? I thought that it had been done elsewhere in the campaign.

Not that I've heard. There's a big debate over whether this is possible. IIRC, there are several ways to cause a ship to jump, and of those ways, some don't work if the ship is disabled.  There is also a discussion as to whether the ship is pulled in by the subspace vortex or if the engines are momentarily supercharged, or whatever.