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Offline Viper17

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« on: April 04, 2002, 10:19:58 PM »
I was playing rouge leader on my gamecube when a thought hit me. I saw in some crazy way that i could compair the fighters in Star Wars to aces. Here is the list i have compiled.

Rebel Forces to Army Air Corp.
X-Wing=P-51-D
B-Wing=P-47-D-30
Y-Wing=P-47-D-25
A-Wing=P-38-L
Snowspeeder=P-47-D-11
C-47=Rebel Transport

Empire To Luftwaffe
Me-109-G-10=TIE Fighter
Fw-190-D-9=TIE Intersept
Ju88-A-4=TIE Bomber
Panzer MkIV=AT-AT
Otswind=AT-ST

Misalaneous
Me-110-G-2=Slave1


Agree or Dissagree???
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Offline Dead Man Flying

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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2002, 10:40:57 PM »
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Agree or Dissagree???


You're right that the ships from Star Wars match up well with WW2-era aircraft.  This is intentional on Lucas' part, and in fact many of the dogfighting scenes during the Death Star battle were taken from actual gun camera footage and "transformed" into space battles.

I was always under the impression that X-Wings represented P-51s, and TIE Fighters represented Zeros.

-- Todd/Leviathn
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2002, 10:56:09 PM »
*smack*
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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2002, 11:19:57 PM »
What the...
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2002, 11:28:27 PM »
Ow!
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Offline easymo

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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2002, 11:45:09 PM »
While I deplore the use of violence.  He had it cummin.
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Offline Beefcake

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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2002, 12:11:23 AM »
Y-Wing = Lanc

Can carry a butt load of Ion bombs, has the best shileds for any fighter (rated at 50 SPPS) but it's slow and unmanverable.

If you wanted anymore Star Wars info let me know, I have 8 Star Wars Techie books. I know everything from armor Ratios on AT-ATs to how many Jawas it takes to screw in a light bulb (none). hehe


BTW you forgot the E-Wing, T-wing, V-wing, X-95 Headhunter, and the K-wing. I'm disappointed in you.
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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2002, 12:22:43 AM »
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If you wanted anymore Star Wars info let me know, I have 8 Star Wars Techie books. I know everything from armor Ratios on AT-ATs to how many Jawas it takes to screw in a light bulb (none). hehe


And they're smacking ME?  Here I'm just a movie buff full of useless trivia, but you're a full-fledged GEEK.  :D

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Offline Beefcake

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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2002, 12:41:11 AM »
Hey I'm part of a Star Wars Role Playing group. We usualy try to meet every 2 weeks to do a game. We just finished a mission where we captured an Imperial Starport, using nothing but a Barloz Freighter and a Yaktune-Tunarine 3B Heavy Battle Tank. COD you have no idea how much fun it was for me to drive that tank. I vulched 53 Tie fighters trying to take off, blew up 6 Duck freighters, and I also got to blow up a Comms center. Oh man it was SO freaking funny when I drove down the landing pad running down stormtroopers. made me feel like a kid again.


Bring the Yaktune-Tunarine 3B Heavy Battle Tank  to Aces High!
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Offline Octavius

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« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2002, 01:49:33 AM »
whoa beef!! slow down :D  where is this role playing you speak of?  Is it that new everquest-style star wars game?
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Offline SKurj

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« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2002, 07:39:58 AM »
Hmm well its obvious that Lucas modelled the Empire after the Axis of ww2.  Stormtoopers...

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Offline Nifty

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« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2002, 09:42:39 AM »
he's talking about good ol' pencil, paper and dice roleplaying.   ;)   sounds like he's got a much better group that I was in.  we had one session and the GM wasn't prepared for it as well as he should have been.

The new online Star Wars game prolly won't be Everquest style.  Lead designer was on the Ultima Online team.  Gonna be skill based instead of level based.   yeah yeah, I'm a RPG geek.  :p
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Offline mason22

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« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2002, 09:56:27 AM »
where's the wookie?
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2002, 10:04:06 AM »
i mourn for the species...

...and mason, have another wookie cookie.
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2002, 10:05:00 AM »
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