Wing Commander: Yorktown Class Light Carrier - Spacedock
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2017
- I'm Jumping into one of my favorite classic Sci-fi IPs for a look at Wing Commander's Yorktown Class.
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I'd forgotten how much I miss games like Wing Commander. The 90s had great space warfare games. Descent Freespace and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter were also among my favs.
Do a search for Wing Commander Darkest Dawn, its a fan made project with the Freespace 2 engine, but its like an AAA game and actually was more fun for me as the original Wing Commander 3 and 4.
You should take a look at Star Citizen. Is made by Chris Roberts. The creator of Wing Commander.
@@_Muzolf The original Wing Commander 2 and Academy also were more fun to me than 3 and 4 though.
@@IIurricane I assume you are referring to Scam-Citizen, where the prices of virtual ships cost as much as a real car.
@@IIurricane Wake me up in 20 years when they actually finish it after wasting 3 billions in funding...
Please do more Wing Commander!
He can make alone in the WC Series about 100 Videos :D
yeah there is actually a fan made freespace two mod for wing commander around the 3 era, but its hard as hell, as freespace is. wing commander saga is what it is called, and it is true to wing commander, just watch your power levels!! Keep your shields high if you want to survive! And extreme difficulty is impossible. Give up.
Yeah I also want to see the midway and all the prophecy ships!
They are. It's called Squadron 42.
WC:Saga is great!
WW2 in space. Complex character relations. Nail biting dog fights. Cinematic plot lines. And your flight engineer was a Porn Star! I LOVED Wing Commander.
And absolutely lame movie which ruined it all :(((
@Frey where did i said that movie ruined games? It ruined experience for everyone who loved them.
DOS Era Sci-fi was so cool. It always had this dark eerie feeling to it. Despite (or because) of the technology limits of the hardware, always made me alone and isolated, yet claustrophobic at the same time.
Yup, totally agree!
This was impressive. Having a new appreciation for Wing Commander. I've had the movie in my head as a reference all this
time, with no exposure to the computer game, which appear superior. The movie really did a disservice to the games.
Ya NOT wrong! It was good on its own, but wasn't truly WC! Not sure WHAT Chris Roberts was thinking when he went retro-futuristic!
The WC Academy TV series was MUCH closer to 'canon'!
Ironically the FMV games had also better cast than movie (and probably the highest profile cast in FMV game). Oh and there was also a cartoon. Also better than the movie (again mainly because it used game cast rather than movie one...)
There was a movie?
This brings back memories of the Lexington from WingCommander IV. I always liked that ship.
Be sure to check out these two amazing fan projects, without which none of these gorgeous screenshots would be possible.
WING COMMANDER SAGA: www.wcsaga.com/
FLAG COMMANDER: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403171608
Spacedock Are these the same ships used in the Cartoon or all of these from the game.
@Michael Lewis I don't think the cartoon is canon, but either way it doesn't feature these ships as it takes place while Blair is a cadet, far before any of these vessels took center stage.
Spacedock okay I wasn't sure and great work on the videos
Still waiting to see his take on the Pyro GX
Maybe a short series devoted to anime spacecraft, please?
When the war isn't going your way, break out the museum piece.
It often works. See Battlestar Galactica.
The Galactica is even better for the simple fact that it *IS* the museum being brought to war!
+airplanemaster1 It would be like us engaging the Terminators, and we all get wiped out except for everyone on Air Force One, some cruise ships, some cargo ships, and the USS Intrepid, which is mysteriously loaded up with a crapton of P-51 Mustangs and B-52 Flying Fortresses, and commanded by Oliver Hazard Perry.
We should all be screwed, but we're not.
More or less what the Resistance did in The Last Jedi, as their ships seemed to be mostly over 25 years old.
*cough*USS FRANKLIN*cough*
The Victory has a special place in my heart.. The way WC3's story played out, the ship felt like home by the end and I legitimately cared about it and the characters aboard it.
I saw the movie Wing Commander and believe or not I was surprised that they made a Saturday morning cartoon series based on it too and it was also pretty good even though it was a little different from the movie.
Nice, more Wing Commander is always appreciated, and using the Wing Commander Saga models is great.
The Designer ScoobyDoo from Saga do a few models for me that is not in Saga.
Like the Gettysburg Class Battlecruiser (our own design), Bengal Strike Carrier (Tiger's Claw) the Gilgamesh Destroyer WC2 and the WC2 Base like Olympus - just a pm and I send Spacedock a lot of Ingame Saga Grafics. Just say what ship :D
Example - Fleet Action :D
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Another own design is the Northampton and look like a Black Lance Capital Ship
Sean FromEdwards yes indeed:)
Asked for a Wing Commander film and got it. I LOVE THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH!!!
This ship is heavily inspired by a WWII ship, even the airwing.
Edit: the only Yorktown Class aircraft carrier to survive WWII pacific war was the USS Enterprise, but was scrapped shortly after.
That was the Essex class Yorktown, the original Yorktown class Yorktown was heavily damaged at the Coral Sea and sunk at Midway in 1942.
Barry Bend, what HellCat said
Barry Bend that was the second USS YORKTOWN, an Essex Class. Named aftet the Original ship USS YORKTOWN which was sunk during the battle of midway.
There were only three Yorktown-class carriers. USS Yorktown, Enterprise, and Hornet. All were at the Battle of Midway. Yorktown was sunk at the conclusion of the Battle of Midway and the USS Hornet was sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz. Both in 1942. USS Enterprise, possibly the most famous survivor of the war, was in mothballs until she was finally scrapped in 1958 after a failed ten year attempt to get the ship saved as a museum ship. She was never reactivated for Korea.
Following the loss of the two other carriers, the US renamed two of the under construction Essex-class carriers into new USS Yorktown and USS Hornet. Bot served for the remainder of the war and both still exist today as museum ships. After many modifications, USS Yorktown would became a subclass leader of the majority of the anti-submarine converted carriers of the Essex-class, which included USS Essex and USS Hornet. But that designation was not until the late 1950s or even 1960. USS Yorktown was recommissioned too late to see service in Korea. USS Hornet also missed out on Korea due to refits.
It's pretty sad that the Enterprise survived the war to only be scrapped.
She resembles a Battle barge in many ways, a flying carrier brick and I just LOVE her
I will never get bored of watching Spacedock videos, if only for the battlezone music in the background :)
*KILRAH AVENGE ME !!!*
I remember playing this game on PC years ago.
Fun times.
You have dishonoured your clan!!!
I love how nearly all of the screen shots were taken in the RTS Homeworld, and specifically in the Hyperspace Arena map.
Man I wish Conquest Frontier Wars had a well developed lore. Seriously love the terran dreadnoughts.
I like the unique design on this. It's not to common you see a science fiction ship that functions so close to how a real carrier would.
Oh the memories... The last battle against Prince Thrakath ... luv to see more wing commander!
Thank you so much for doing Wing Commander. I truly appreciate it.
I don't have time to watch this now, but :D
Loved flying out of that beast.
Thank you for this. I am an huge Wing commander nerd.
Casper Bosman it's a great game series wish they would port it to console and update the original been think of building a computer just to replay it
It was!
1:59 "Comprising" is the inverse of "comprised of," which is the one that would make sense in context. The various bombers and fighters comprise the Yorktown's strike craft complement, but the Yorktown's strike craft complement is comprised of the various bombers and fighters.
This is probably too flippant for your style, but I would've added Blair's reply to 0:11.
Yes, Sir. A VERY long history, Sir.
Don't know how to underline in UA-cam comments. Anyhow, watching this makes me want to re-play The Darkest Dawn. Speaking of which, the Hermes (Jutland Class Fleet Attack Carrier) or the Concordia (Confederation Class Dreadnought) are ships I think you could make great videos on.
Yes! Need more Wing Commander! Next great ships would be the TCS Concordia, TCS Tigers Claw, and the TCS Cerberus or Midway. For fighters, we need the Excalibur, Hellcat V, or possibly Dragon.
Also wouldn't mind seeing some FreeSpace stuff!
I loved WC. I played each game and it made me purchase my first sound card as they were one of the very few PC games that supported sound. The ships were fantasic and so is Space Dock!Thanks
This took me way back. Hit me in the feels.
It blows my mind that a space carrier shares its class name with the most famous WWII USN carrier class.
Yorktown CV-5
Enterprise CV-6
Wasp CV-7 (smaller variant)
Hornet CV-8
And even more so that two of the fighters it carried are named after WWII planes, the F6F Hellcat and the P-47 Thunderbolt.
ALL tips of the hat! Surprisingly, (or perhaps not) WC COULD have, in all rights, named a WC ship the ENTERPRISE as well!
BOTH universes named their ships after WW2 American, British, & Australian warships!
Thanks for the Wing Commander vid!
Such a rich sci-fy world. Would love to see more of the wing commander ships.
Dude..this is freeking awsome! Boom straight back to my childhood. Do more of these please :)
YES! Please do more Wing Commander!
Nice! Love wing commander capital ships. Always wanted to command that instead of a fighter. Like a Gilgamesh class destroyer! Hope u do more wing commander!
Love this. The Concordia or Tiger's Claw has to come next!!!!
Wing Commander? Oh yes! Please do a video about the TCS Behemoth as a mere blurb in the video is a tease
While o love your channel and where different ships collide in either continuity or other Sci-Fi series collide, I think the Victory-class Carrier alines closer to the Vesuvius-class Carrier than the Victory. I still love your channel and love how you champion "forgotten" Sci-Fi series like Babylon 5 (the most forgotten series responsible for all our best current Sci-Fi) and Wing Commander (the best PC Flight Sim of all time). Don't stop. Number stop. Even during the dark times like the quarantine, you will always have my support.
While I may not be a huge supporter, I'll always be yours when you put such high quality videos like this, the Excalibur, the White Star, or any Wing Commander ship in your videos.
Be excellent, and chase your dreams.
Yes thank god love wing commander please do more on the shipes and fighters soon sir
...Reminds me of the Yorktown class and Enterprise from WWII.
..... i think thats the point?
Enterprise was a Yorktown class Carrier
Lucky E, the greatest ship in US navy history IMO
CANS Robotics ~ NXT Pro Galloping Grey Ghost
USS Enterprise CV-6, was the most decorated American ship in WW II. 20 battle stars.
Now that you've started the WC series, hope the Tiger's Claw appears next (that is i hope if it's possible).
My entry to the series was Wing Commander II, so the TCS Concordia and Saber class heavy fighter still stand out as some of the coolest ships in Wing Commander.
I would love to see a vid on the Hammerhead fighter from Space Above and Beyond.
Holy s*** you guys are thorough. We're in like 3rd string SciFi now
Do a Terran Battlecruiser from Star Craft. Or even better the Spear of Adun from Legacy of the Void!
If you visit Wing Commander again, TCS Midway Super Carrier. Some of the game's fighter compliment would be nice too like the Rapier, Excalibur, and Wasp.
Nice to see shots using the Wing Commander mod for Homeworld 2 Remastered being used.
kilrathi dralthi fighter would be nice for next wing commander video :)
i like the use of Homeworld for the animations. great mod!
I loved playing this game on me old playstation one.
Spacedock - A couple of Sci-fi worth considering. 1. Space Above and Beyond (TV Series). I would like to see the SA-43 Hammerhead fighter and the USS SARATOGA. 2. Star Lancer (PC Game) Lots of decent fighters and Captial ships to explore.
I would welcome a video about the Midway of the Wing Commander IP. Prophecy was the first wing commander game I played and its remained close to my heart. though there is one part in that game during a complex and long mission where my game always crashed at the same point 5 times before it finally, think it involved doing a mission, the a cutscene, then you had to do another half mission, change disk and hope the game continued from there automatically
That said, there are a ton of ships is the Starlancer game that I love also.
I loved Wing Commander, prob my favorite series of video games when i was young.
I remember WC4 having like eight 5in floppy disks and how long it took to install on a computer. And we think it takes forever now... Lol
The Concordia class carrier was actually in service at the start of the Kilrathi war with the TCS Concordia herself being lost during the McAuliffe Ambush in 2634. The Confederation class Dreadnought TCS Concordia (WC2 hero ship) is named after the previously mentioned Concordia (lost early 2669).
More accurate statement would be that the Concordia was an evolution of the Yorktown class, as the Concordia class fleet carrier was the primary Fleet Carrier used in the pilgrim war.
To be fair I find it curious that Bengal class carriers were sold off as export to the Landerich while older and less capable Yorktown and Concordia class carriers were retained even up to the end of, and past the Kilrathi war.
nice vid! :) Would be nice to see a video on the Broadsword Bomber from WC2 and X-Bomber from Starfleet
awesome info
I have to admit, WingCommander Prophecy really shouldn't have gone the way it had. Sure, you can't have everything, but imagine if, when Midway recieves her Vampires, also a couple of Muffy class destroyers, a Plunket class cruiser and a pair of Yorktowns joined up to form defence. It would have been crazy cool to try to defend a fleet for a change.
Loved this game
I've recently been rewatching the show Andromeda and always loved the High Guard ships from that. Any chance for us to see an episode on the Andromeda Ascendant or Pax Magellanic or some other ship from the show? Maybe in a vs match? I always loved how the unique ship design is based around a need for lessing missile impacts that is completely different from the normal "take it on the chin" method.
The ship that won the war! *salutes*
Still watching, still enjoying. Suggestion: Icarus II from Sunshine(2007)
Yes! \m/ More Wing Commander stuff please!!!
Wish there would be more Wing Commander movies. I really liked the first one. Pretty original.
I'd love to see an episode on the Dreadnaught from Destiny or any covenant ship.
Also, I watched the expanse recently, thanks to your videos! :D
I love how realistic it is.
Definitely More Wing Command please
This is one of my Favourite games (still playing it thanks to GoG)
They must have crazy light future building materials for a Yorktown to be twice as long as an Earthbound aircraft carrier while weighing 1/5th as much.
I think he MISSED a 0! Should be 280,000t!
Please do more wing commander. Would love break downs on ranger, Concordia, Lexington, classes as well as the destroyer and cruiser and frigate series vessels
This was cool.
I love how the ship names and fighter names are all based on WWII ships and planes!
Yorktown class did not influence the Concordia as Concordia was already an established and different design, but instead the Vesuvius class super carrier.
SDF-1 Macross and/or Valkyrie fighters. I will continue to ask until done.
Same here.
I was looking for someone that posted this, if I hadn't found it I would have asked for the VF-1 series myself :)
Always loved the Wing Commander series. Its a shame its a neglected property these days. Only issue I see is the end. The Concordia class mentioned actually existed during the War as they show up in the novels. The namesake ship of the class was destroyed in the novel showing the opening days of the war and was the main ship class during the war. The Lexington seen in Wing Commander 4 was partially destroyed during the False Peace.
Mark Hamill flies a small nibble starfighter down a narrow trench and fires a weapon into the planet's venerable spot, destroying it and thereby winning the war.
Ooh English much?
the one fighter game I want to see come back
Nice one. I played the old Wing Commander games, seeing you doing vids about them makes me want to play them again.
Would it be possible to cover the Spin-off Privateer games as well?
We need more Wing Commander!
I fucking love this channel!
Fairly certain the Concordia-class was in service well before the conclusion of the Terran-Kilrathi War, but it did indeed take on most of the design cues of the Yorktown. I guess it depends on what the novelizations say as opposed to the games.
still one of the best space sim game!
Do more wing comander
Chalk up another for the Maniac!
I would love to see the GTVA Colossus from Freespace 2 it is my favourite sci fi ship from my favourite sci fi game
that was a interesting ship. I never heard of it. were most of the images of the ship from homeworld 2?
Wing Commander rocks!
I miss Wing Commander. It doesn't nearly the attention it deserves these days. One of the first games I can remember with a detailed story and fleshed out characters (often played by recognizable Hollywood actors/actresses).
I'd love to see you do a segment on Ryo-Ohki - now there's an unusual vessel... :-3
Would love to see you cover some ships from O.R.B. ( offworld resource base)
@Spacedock: You could do one on the Excalibur from Wing Commander, because with that box you just murder everything
@Spacedock
Can you do more Wing Commander ships please?
For example other carriers like the Jutland or Lexington class or the Kilrathi Dreadnoughts.
Would like to see one on the TCS Midway.
Can you make a video about the BT-7 Thunderclap?
The ship of the solider in SWTOR.
WING COMMANDER:YES!!!!
Please do more ship from Wing Commander!!
Wing commander all day every day.
Any chance we can get the Bengal Class Carriers please?
You are losing the war against an enemy that knows no mercy, the last most likely gambit you have to win the war is powerful but unfinished superweapon. So what do you do?
Why, lets assign an outdated and heavily undergunned carrier to protect it, oh an also leave the damn thing undefended while that given carrier deploys a single wing of Arrows to protect it. What, isn`t this the first thing that comes to your mind as well? Its genius, the kilrathi will not expect it, the escort fighters sure were surprised when they arrived several kliks out without even a chance of intercepting anything.
Ladies and Gentleman, the tactical genius of Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn.
finally a wing commander video :D
Any chance of doing Midway and the Vampire next?
Can you please do a review of the Tiger Claw - if not already done, thank you.
Can you do the Yamato carrier from StarLancer
Hi, may i suggest for your next video to cover either the Lucifer super destroyer from freespace. or Sathanas from freespace 2? Those two ship have quite an interesting history.
Do the Waterloo class cruiser/carrier!