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Another Star Wars RTS in the Works
Voodoo Extreme is reporting on a piece coming out in PCZone UK about another Star Wars Real Time-Strategy Game, to be called Empire at War. From the article: This new PC game is set two years before ANH with a certain amount of cross over from Episode 3. Screen shots look superb. It appears to include ground battles set in dessert and greenland areas with attacking AT-AT's and a new Imperial ground based vehicle called "TIE Crawlers" which I've not seen before (cross between a tank and a TIE Fighter).
Would that be because Chewie was standing on a chewy birthday cake in the screen grab?
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The TIE Crawler is not "new." It's been around for forever; look up an old version of the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels if you don't believe me.
Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
It's called a TIE crawler because it looks like a TIE fighter crawling on the ground. Do a GIS for "tie crawler"
The flat things on either side of the cockpit in the normal TIE/ln aren't engines, either. They're solar panels; the engines are located horizontally across the back of the cockpit ball, one on the left and the other on the right.
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For those who didn't read the actual "article", the game's being developed by Petroplyph (http://www.petroglyphgames.com/), a new team constisting of lots of ex-Westwood (known for the Command & Conquer games) dudes.
I wish them luck, and I hope they make something good! They should be able to, given their experience.