Never forget that NPCs can be afraid too. Often enemies are portrayed as essentially mindless mooks who rush straight into combat or other dangerous situations, champing at the bit to mix it with the PCs.

Some games have morale systems to help remind GMs that enemies aren't necessarily always keen on combat, and to suggest times when they might flee or surrender. But what if the NPCs are afraid of something other than the PCs?

What f they're afraid of something the PCs really should be afraid of too, if they only knew about it? If the orcs the heroes are fighting are all muttering something about how it's better to be fighting humans than to face the wrath of the dragon overlord, then it would be a good time for the PCs to know some Orcish.

Sometimes you just can't wait for all the information you need to carry out a plan successfully. If your GM is doing the job right, this might actually occur more often than not. But you have to go ahead and make the best of things anyway. Do things right even despite the lack of full information and the rewards should be all the greater.

Assuming you survive.

Give everyone a role in the big end-of-adventure battle. Especially if they're not combat-oriented characters.

This goes in the other direction too. Give the combat monsters something to do in the kindergarten class supervision scenes.

And yes, Wedge is played by a different actor here (Denis Lawson) than in his earlier scene (Colin Higgins). The story is that Higgins didn't learn his lines and fumbled through the scene in the briefing room, resulting in him being fired and Lawson being given the part for the remainder of the film as well as the two sequels. And they simply didn't bother refilming the briefing scene with Lawson.

Author note: We know the foreign language sentences in the comic are really badly translated. They are meant to be that way.