OT - Thoughts on the Honor Harrington series

[geoschmo]

Honor is a hero. Heros have to be great or they aren't heros, they are just normal people acting heroic.

The similariies between HH and SEIV are natural since both David Weber and Aaron Hall drew their inspiration from the Starfire game.

[ September 08, 2003, 13:18: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Arkcon]

Deccan, an old thread on the possibility for an Honor Harrington mod is here:

click link:

I particularly like the prospect of mini drones being used as laser head missiles.

[ September 08, 2003, 18:41: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Narrew]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
The similariies between HH and SEIV are natural since both David Weber and Aaron Hall drew their inspiration from the Starfire game.

Actually it was Weber and another person (cant remember his name) that wrote a couple of books based on Starfire and they helped to design it (to what extent I am not for sure, but I remember Webers name on the early Version, which led me to the books) and you could almost picture each ship slot being filled with something.

Many long series of book tend to get boring, but Weber has become a better story teller as he wrote more books.

About Honor being a hero and able to do everything. As you follow her through the series, she is super focused, so when her lover got killed in a duel, she methodically learned how to duel and shoot a pistol, when she was the Sword of Grayson, though she never weilded a sword, her hand to hand combat skills and her ability to KILL allowed her to kill a Grayson radical (mainly because he never killed, he only participated in tournies). So is she an expert in everything she does, or is she a very motivated and focused individual, I would like to think the later, kind of wished I had that focus, but I am lazy.

So the HH series are one of the better series I have read, and I have read some of Webers other Sci-Fi and liked it also.

[oleg]

[quote]Originally posted by Narrew:

...Actually it was Weber and another person (cant remember his name) that wrote a couple of books based on Starfire and they helped to design it (to what extent I am not for sure, but I remember Webers name on the early Version, which led me to the books) and you could almost picture each ship slot being filled with something.

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S.White ? "In Death Ground" almost makes you feel like reading another superb SEIV game story. Seriously, it really goes that way when I open a worm hole into AIC' Xi'Chung core systems... Death, destruction, millions of civilians left behind...

[CaptRR]

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Originally posted by Narrew:

...Actually it was Weber and another person (cant remember his name) that wrote a couple of books based on Starfire and they helped to design it (to what extent I am not for sure, but I remember Webers name on the early Version, which led me to the books) and you could almost picture each ship slot being filled with something.

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S.White ? "In Death Ground" almost makes you feel like reading another superb SEIV game story. Seriously, it really goes that way when I open a worm hole into AIC' Xi'Chung core systems... Death, destruction, millions of civilians left behind...

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Yep, I have read every book in David Webar's star fire series. The action tends to get a little monontounouse though. Especially in the Shiva Option, before that the bugs seemed like an unstopable force, then they sort of just fizled in the Shiva Option. Still a good book though.

As for the HH series, I have read almost every book in that series as well(except for the 2 newest hardcover ones, they just came out too quick for me to afford). The series overall is good, and probably my fiavorate sci-fi space opera of all time.

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The only thing that bothers me, is that the series is begining to become nothing but huge missile dules. At first, ships would throw missiles at each other for a little while, and then close in to slug it out with grasers. Now with the invention of the SD(P)'s litterally thousands of missiles are being thrown out. The LAC's in my oponion are just too weak to take on anything larger than a dreadnaught, and in a universe where thousands of missiles are being thrown out you have to have a dreanaught with pods just to survive.

Now in the Last book they mentioned a Battlecruiser with internal and external pods mounted along the top and bottom. Those might make the smaller ships at least be able to fight with ships of the wall. Now if only Webar will come up with some creative defense against missiles....

[oleg]

Sorry, don't rememmer the link - it was one of HH fan site - there was a discussion about new tactics. Basic idea is like this : if one Missile Pod Dreadnough can kill 10 DRN, why anybody would sent 10 ships ? Just send one. But after while, if you know most likely you will fight only one ship, why bother to use so many miisles ? It is an overkiil. Let's use less pods and utilize the saved space for PD and ECM ! And now we have another twist in the arms race

[Narrew]

Didnt Honor use pods because they didnt have any real ships? and that since it had been so long that anyone had tried to do something like that, Honor pulled a rabbit out of her hat and wyped out them damn Peeps. I like his politics (in HH), I can get as wound up with them dips that are running Manticore (as of the recent book) as our so called peace-nik politions