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Barb-Wire wrote:

you rebels whine far too much.

you have a ship that has MASSIVE firepower has MASSIVE mass capability and handles the SAME as the imperial TIE Bomber and your COMPLAINING!!!!!?!?!??

all i gotta say is OMG what a bunch of whiners.

ill take a BWing over an Opressor ANY day.

Message Edited by Barb-Wire on 11-12-2004 02:46 PM

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Im not complaining, Dont paint all rebels with a broad brush. Im happy for both sides. We got our big ships and your TIE's have shields. So we are both winners, not whiners.

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L0nghorn wrote:

The problem with the B-Wing is this my Nova handles better. So trying to justify that the B-Wing is a heavy ship just doesnt make sense they should have reversed the way both ships handle.

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I have read this before, its simply not true. I fly both and the B handles better than the Nova. The excelleration and decelleration on the Nova are slower, and the turning is slower as well. Not to mention the profile of the Nova makes it impossible to miss where the B-wing is far smaller a target.

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Nooooooo way. The Nova does indeed accelerate slightly slower than the B-wing, but it turns MUCH smoother. The B-wing has a ton of momentum, so turning often involves shooting past your target while you slow down your ship's rotation. Not so with the Nova.

Message Edited by Barb-Wire on 11-12-2004 02:46 PM

OK, I understand why an X-wing is called what it is. The same goes for Y-wings and A-wings. But what reasoning could there be for calling the B-wing a B-wing? It looks nothing like a "B". If anything, I'd have called it a "t-wing" (note the lack of capitalization). Could someone explain why it is a B-wing for me?

I think it's either "B" for "Bomber", or they couldn't think of a letter that fit it so they used B because it looks pretty.

I used to think it meant bomber, but read somewhere it was acutally for "blade", cant recall where i read that though.

I've also read the 'blade' explanation, but my favorite (and the one that felt the most likely) used to be located here, but the page no longer exists. The text that Google still has archived includes the clips:

"... He surmises that the "A" and "B" were just the way the production crew ..."

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"... the A-wing does have a passing resemblance to an A. The B-wing moniker stuck ..

The entire explanation centered around the movie production crew simply naming them model A and model B during creation and the monikers stuck, being transformed into A-Wing and B-Wing.

If you go here, part of the Starwars.com Databank, there should be a link near the lower left with the text:

"Jedi Council: What is a B-wing supposed to look like?"

That was the hyperlink to the post, but is broken, as I said.

Shona

Message Edited by Zeon_Zaku on 04-20-2005 09:50 PM