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Thread: how u can solo gunboads?
Message Edited by Dreamland on 11-12-2004 01:16 AM
darmokVtS wrote:
Call in a bomber strike from distance to weaken the gunboat's protections and have some additional targets around for the gunboat to shoot at, then target the gunboats weapon system and blast away. Once the weapons are down the gunboat is a piece of cake
Why take the time to individualy disable 4 separate weapons when you can immobilize it by taking out one subsystem and render its guns useless.
Message Edited by Dreamland on 11-12-2004 01:40 AM
Maybe I had a bugged mission, but I took out the reactor on a gunboat and the guns kept firing. I was like, "W T F?" because how does a ship fire its weapons without any energy? Anyway, since that experience, I target weapons first always.
Dreamland wrote:
darmokVtS wrote:
Call in a bomber strike from distance to weaken the gunboat's protections and have some additional targets around for the gunboat to shoot at, then target the gunboats weapon system and blast away. Once the weapons are down the gunboat is a piece of cake
Why take the time to individualy disable 4 separate weapons when you can immobilize it by taking out one subsystem and render its guns useless.
Message Edited by Dreamland on 11-12-2004 01:40 AM
Dreamland wrote:
QBallz wrote:Two words "Space Bombs"
Three words. Not cost effective.
Yeah, I was about to say something similar. A Shipwright could retire on the sum of a pilot coming in buying 10 cases of Mk2 Space Bombs a week.
fareone wrote:
how ? they killing me like 2 sec. in kessel or danthomir(corsec tier4) one time i desibled to reactor but they were still shotting me...how u can kill them?
Maybe you aren't supposed to Solo them. If you fly without a wingman, you are a fool. Any REAL fighter pilot will want a wingman when in a combat situation. I expect that with a wingman or two, you can take on the gunboat, but you need to work together and dance in and out of the targets range.
There may be some that can solo it, but it is nothing to be impressed over. 99% of those that solo, used some sort of "trick" exploiting a poor AI. Put a player or two in the gunboat and you would need a few wingman to beat it.
Of course, this isn't gonna work come 11.2. I just hope they aren't stupid enough to make all turrets ranges 750m with the AI NEVER MISSING still.
atytula wrote:
Maybe you aren't supposed to Solo them. If you fly without a wingman, you are a fool. Any REAL fighter pilot will want a wingman when in a combat situation. I expect that with a wingman or two, you can take on the gunboat, but you need to work together and dance in and out of the targets range.
There may be some that can solo it, but it is nothing to be impressed over. 99% of those that solo, used some sort of "trick" exploiting a poor AI. Put a player or two in the gunboat and you would need a few wingman to beat it.