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Rafale C and Mirage 2000D are in the "scoundrel" fleet every Star War game has, Eurofighter Typhoons are one of the piece of poo poo knockoff fighters that faction always has. You need a cheat code for the F35 but it might crash your Nintendo and cause your cartridge to explode. e: gently caress what a snipe
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I always really liked the B-Wing design, although it didn't really get any cool moments in the movies and the a lot of the games kinda want to bury it as slow and unwieldy. It's weird and different and it's designed as a capital ship killer. Razor Rendezvous was one of my favorite missions. I think maybe somebody in the Rogue Squadron books complained about how the B-Wing was such a great ship that people were ignoring and I took that to heart.    EC Henry had his take on the B-Wing mk 2 as a bigger ship and dedicated bomber (since his take on a Resistance Y-Wing had it giving up that role) that he recently revised into a more adaptable long-term gunship. Hazo posted:Name one cool thing a Y-Wing ever did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=436HqrpQg-w Edgar Allen Ho posted:V-Wing is terrible, prove me wrong. 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Rafale C and Mirage 2000D are in the "scoundrel" fleet every Star War game has, Eurofighter Typhoons are one of the piece of poo poo knockoff fighters that faction always has. You need a cheat code for the F35 but it might crash your Nintendo and cause your cartridge to explode. All too new! Anything with a first flight after the early 80s is too modern for Star Wars (if we're keeping it OT era anyway). Why reach for modern(ish) Eurojank when the stuff from the 50s and 60s is already as "third faction Star Wars" as you can possibly get?          
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All original trilogy rebel starfighters are created equal. All 4 are S tier ships
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star wars fighters are ww2 pacific fighters: the x-wing is the Hellcat, y wing is the Dauntless or Avenger, a-wing is the loving...Corsair or something. Imperial fighters are Japanese with the TIEs as Zero being the most obvious.
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Prolonged Panorama posted:All too new! Anything with a first flight after the early 80s is too modern for Star Wars (if we're keeping it OT era anyway). Why reach for modern(ish) Eurojank when the stuff from the 50s and 60s is already as "third faction Star Wars" as you can possibly get? This was my favourite fighter plane when I was a kid and the Y-wing was always my favourite rebel fighter I think I just like weird, scrappy-looking underdogs
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Barry Foster posted:This was my favourite fighter plane when I was a kid First one is an early model mig 21 with the forward hinged canopy, not a lightning which for the record has a strange hole in what should have been a beautiful delta wing! 
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thatbastardken posted:star wars fighters are ww2 pacific fighters: the x-wing is the Hellcat, y wing is the Dauntless or Avenger, a-wing is the loving...Corsair or something. Imperial fighters are Japanese with the TIEs as Zero being the most obvious. If we're going back to WW2 then clearly both X and Y wings are Lancasters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M 
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Kind or reminds me of Colin Cantwell's original concept art for 2-man "Star Destroyers". 
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SlothfulCobra posted:I always really liked the B-Wing design, although it didn't really get any cool moments in the movies and the a lot of the games kinda want to bury it as slow and unwieldy. It's weird and different and it's designed as a capital ship killer. Razor Rendezvous was one of my favorite missions. I think maybe somebody in the Rogue Squadron books complained about how the B-Wing was such a great ship that people were ignoring and I took that to heart. I don't think it was even a thing in older Star Wars media/books/games before the sequel films, but I've noticed that lately they've really been leaning into the idea that the B-Wing cockpit gyroscopically swivels independently of the rest of the ship for easier flying and better weapons spread. In X-Wing and Rogue Squadron it just operated like an on/off switch for hyperspace/normal flight, but I know they talk about the swiveling in the Alphabet Squadron books and you get to see it up close in one of the newer scene additions in Disney's Star Tours where you follow behind one above Exegol. Razor Rendezvous kicks rear end and the following mission where the Razor crashes into a beach and you do a bunch of low-atmosphere dogfighting owns too.
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spotted yesterday: Spotted today: 
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They ended up doing the two-man stardestroyer fighters properly when they made the "first draft of The Star Wars" comic. It's kinda weird how the franchise in general was pretty shy about multi-man fighters or bombers, so there's not a lot in between the size of one-man fighter and a full-on freighter like the Millennium Falcon unless it's a dedicated passenger vehicle. Hazo posted:I don't think it was even a thing in older Star Wars media/books/games before the sequel films, but I've noticed that lately they've really been leaning into the idea that the B-Wing cockpit gyroscopically swivels independently of the rest of the ship for easier flying and better weapons spread. In X-Wing and Rogue Squadron it just operated like an on/off switch for hyperspace/normal flight, but I know they talk about the swiveling in the Alphabet Squadron books and you get to see it up close in one of the newer scene additions in Disney's Star Tours where you follow behind one above Exegol. I guess that's the line of reasoning they came up with when they developed the Fang Fighter and its rotating guns. Just increasing the spread but maybe also some kind of maneuvering benefits. 
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Hazo posted:I don't think it was even a thing in older Star Wars media/books/games before the sequel films, but I've noticed that lately they've really been leaning into the idea that the B-Wing cockpit gyroscopically swivels independently of the rest of the ship for easier flying and better weapons spread. SlothfulCobra posted:It's kinda weird how the franchise in general was pretty shy about multi-man fighters or bombers, so there's not a lot in between the size of one-man fighter and a full-on freighter like the Millennium Falcon unless it's a dedicated passenger vehicle.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If we're going back to WW2 then clearly both X and Y wings are Lancasters. Wildcat or Buffalo = Z95: tough, but obsolete and not competitive with the more agile TIE/Zero. Hellcat = X-Wing: Tough, and with enough power and maneuverability to beat the TIE/Zero under most conditions. Dauntless = Y-Wing: tough, slow, used for strike rather than superiority. Avenger = B-wing: Modern, high powered, loads of munitions. Corsair = A-wing: Fast as hell, agile, well armed...but tricky to fly. Zero = TIE: Lethally armed, fast and maneuverable, but fragile. Late War IJ Fighters = Advanced TIE, Interceptor, etc: Bring the balance of power back to the Empire, but are generally considered to be too little too late. I can torture this metaphor a whole bunch more - light transports like the Falcon are Catalinas, that sort of thing.
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Regarding ship speeds (and the Y-Wing going from a hotrod to the slow bomber portrayal it has now), this was the speed chart ILM put together while making Return of the Jedi:
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Polaron posted:Regarding ship speeds (and the Y-Wing going from a hotrod to the slow bomber portrayal it has now), this was the speed chart ILM put together while making Return of the Jedi:
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That's cool. The technique goes back a long way apparently - on the airport set of Casablanca, they had little people dressed as airplaine mechanics in the background so they didn't have to build full-scale airplane props.
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I hope they got to keep the costumes and be the coolest kids on the block for Halloween.
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Dave Syndrome posted:That's cool. The technique goes back a long way apparently - on the airport set of Casablanca, they had little people dressed as airplaine mechanics in the background so they didn't have to build full-scale airplane props. They used it in Alien, too, so they didn't have to build the Space Jockey set in the derelict at full scale.
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Vinylshadow posted:https://twitter.com/pabl0hidalgo/status/1514829522654269440 Bigger Luke needed a bigger X-Wing. Pablo Hidalgo cannot fool me.
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Rugikiki posted:Where’s Wicket? Vermin ate him.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I always really liked the B-Wing design, although it didn't really get any cool moments in the movies and the a lot of the games kinda want to bury it as slow and unwieldy. It's weird and different and it's designed as a capital ship killer. Razor Rendezvous was one of my favorite missions. I think maybe somebody in the Rogue Squadron books complained about how the B-Wing was such a great ship that people were ignoring and I took that to heart. The B Wing is my Big favourite
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EC Henry has a interesting video the goes into design analysis of star wars vehicles, and touches on the real world military aviation inspiration for them, similar to this thread a few pages back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f80mfPYLqHg
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Holy poo poo I've been looking for this picture since forever. Thank you!
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Arquinsiel posted:Somehow that never occurred to me as possible, but now no other way makes sense. Where did you think the poo went when the TIE pilots flushed?
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