Emp_Palpatine

Oh my, Frescos... And Fishbed F-13.

Quite sorry he missed them.

Ain't that sure. One of the cats I had really cared. It's quite rare with them, but it can happen. She was really concerned when one was ill, coming to lick the personn, stay with her and so on. She was way more affectionate in such times. She was a female, that was perhaps sort of a maternal instinct. So even if I think this is very very rare, I think it can happen.

Wait... what?!

Yep, the 1er REP were badasses. A shame they were dissolved after the 1961 coup attempt. Most reinforcements were volunteers for Dien Bien Phu, knowing they won't come back. This is courage.

Oh, and the alliance between Soviet Union and Germany.

Everything runs smoothly here. You might want to wait a little bit, though. From what I've read here and there, eburger is doing some updates on Nato Fighters.

Oh my, take them! I'll trade french girls for italian or belgian anytime. July 14 isn't Bastille day, it's Federation day, in 1790. BTW, there are also parades in Belgium, in Italy and I guess in Spain.

Has this baby ever been released?

I do agree, even If I am not 100% with you with the latter part. The war quickly evolved from "taking back control" to "supporting Empire of Vietnam against reds". France was not that stupid to think it would keep the colonies unchanged after WW2.

Guys, What do you think about MiG-23 records? When they are compared to Fishbeds' ones, they aren't too shiny. The planes had even been discarded almost everywhere whereas Fishbeds are still around, albeit modernized ones. And operationnal records seem to be quite mediocre in Iran-Irak war or in South Africa, for instance. What do you think? Is it a failed plane? Did Soviet Union missed the third generation step?

Well, what's frightening or, perhaps, somewhat reassuring, is that everybody in the west seems to feel the same with politicians.

Now, that's a sight I'd have never believed a decade ago... And new roundels with that. Anyone has a close-up?

Yeah, that sounds stupid. The goal was to trigger a massive decisive battle where superior firepower would have destroyed the Viet-minh. And Viet-Minhs wouldn't have attacked high ground, I guess. Still stupid, though.

And drunk!

I've always wondered wether such a thing was possible in TK's games.

Algeria and Indochina are not the same thing. Not at all. Indochina was a proxy war, where the French armies and local allies fought against the reds FOR the State of Vietnam. Algeria was proper french territory, not some far away protectorate. If the army tried to seize power, it was because the army thought it was her duty as the keeper of France's honnor and territory when the government said it wanted to leave Algeria. And by the way, the army won in Algeria. The A.L.N was nothing in 1960-61. De Gaulle's government decided to leave, that's something entirely different.

Oh, ok then. That's strange, I am quite sure I used SF2 : NA exe as a base, but I must have messed up.

Guys, I've pondering this for years. Since SFP1 actually. Don't you think the gunners are too deadly? I mean, they are like sharpshooters and I have seen crazy things. Actually, when it comes to a gun fight, the attackers are always badly mauled. I've seen flights of you-name-the-plane mauled by Il-18, badgers or Bears. I've seen my flight of 8 Tunnan destroyed by Tu-4 without scoring a single hit. Isn't this too much unrealistic?

Another question: I would like to use standard SF2:NA loading & Menu screens, with the F-14 and so on. My Expanded install uses SF2 desert ones. Is there a way I could change this?

Best of luck!

Congratulations!

I get these points, and they are all good indeed. And I am perfectly aware how a grumpy cat I am. I can say I had the process you speak of with Battlestar Galactica: I went to the 1970's series thanks to the 2000's ones. Yet... What pains me is the overall and great complexity of Star Wars universe (I can't say about Star Trek, don't know enough of it, but I did not liked much the reboot): that's a modern mythology. In my opinion, it would have been better to follow this mythology because: - I am quite sceptical of what this decade's hollywood is able to produce (the better and the worse), I am very much afraid that the new Star Wars will be full of 2010's bullshits and disrepectfull of the original things spirit. - I very much loathe that "reboot" thing. I want to see new things. New stories, new universes. I want them to bet money on new things. Not produce godzillas every 15 years, or a new spiderman reboot every 10 years.

So, can we install this over an existing install?

I ain't a Trekkie, but... Why does a cultural work has to stay alive? Cultural works are also part of an era. Star Wars, it's the 1980's. Bad special effects and imperial officers pornstaches are part of the overall charm. I mean neither Star Trek nor Star Wars were dead. These are cultural monuments. Awesome works. They are to our societies what Homer's works were to Greece, Shakespeare's to Renaissance England, and so on. When something reachs such a point, you just can't do anything with it. For instance, mess with its timeline or whatever. You don't start with a blank page but with something having an history. Nowadays, Hollywood guys just want to do whatever they please without any respect for what might have preceeded them. You can't rape Homer's work (well, they did with Brad Pitt's Troy), you shouldn't be able to do so with modern equivalents.