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you do missions at the space station then as soon as you get ground missions from Eyma (SP) keep doing his. At one point he asks you about the enemy make sure you pick the strong or powerful option. Eventually he tells you to go to the reb space station. The first mission there is easy you escort a transport and kill tier 4 and 5 ships (sorry easy if you are far in pilot 4333 for me). The next quest I cant finish, you go to a corvette, kill the 2 tier 4s and two tier 5s (dont fire on the corvette until the escorts are dead) after that head for the vette. What I did was get directly behind it and start taking out weapons.

First I took out weapon 6 and 7, it is possible to stay behing the thrusters and destroy these with out getting hit.

Then I used my 12 missiles to take out guns 0,1,2 from the safety of the thrusters.

Now is were it gets tricky, with 5/8 weapons disabled this seems easy howerver the guns hit you very hard. What I found finally worked for me was have a friend draw fire while i crept down the ship destroying the remaining guns.

Im sure there are various ways to complete this and the more people the better. When the weapons are disabled its easy to take out the shields then the engine. After that you take over the corvette and escort it.

This is the part that I failed: while escorting kill tier 3-5 ships (no problem). Then just before you reach the reb station a tier 5 gunboat spawns. This thing literaly two shotted the vette. I nor my friend could even get to this thing before it had killed the vette. My concern is that if this thing takes out the vette in two shots it makes little difference how many people you have helping you.

I would like feedback from people who have completed this. Was I doing something wrong when the gunboat appeared? Did I run out of time?

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darthfodder wrote:

you do missions at the space station then as soon as you get ground missions from Eyma (SP) keep doing his. At one point he asks you about the enemy make sure you pick the strong or powerful option. Eventually he tells you to go to the reb space station. The first mission there is easy you escort a transport and kill tier 4 and 5 ships (sorry easy if you are far in pilot 4333 for me). The next quest I cant finish, you go to a corvette, kill the 2 tier 4s and two tier 5s (dont fire on the corvette until the escorts are dead) after that head for the vette. What I did was get directly behind it and start taking out weapons.

First I took out weapon 6 and 7, it is possible to stay behing the thrusters and destroy these with out getting hit.

Then I used my 12 missiles to take out guns 0,1,2 from the safety of the thrusters.

Now is were it gets tricky, with 5/8 weapons disabled this seems easy howerver the guns hit you very hard. What I found finally worked for me was have a friend draw fire while i crept down the ship destroying the remaining guns.

Im sure there are various ways to complete this and the more people the better. When the weapons are disabled its easy to take out the shields then the engine. After that you take over the corvette and escort it.

This is the part that I failed: while escorting kill tier 3-5 ships (no problem). Then just before you reach the reb station a tier 5 gunboat spawns. This thing literaly two shotted the vette. I nor my friend could even get to this thing before it had killed the vette. My concern is that if this thing takes out the vette in two shots it makes little difference how many people you have helping you.

I would like feedback from people who have completed this. Was I doing something wrong when the gunboat appeared? Did I run out of time?

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Ok, here's the strategy i've had work several times:

1) make sure your ship is loaded with missiles

2) get directly behind the engine, it can't hit you there

3) target the shield and secondary shield and destroy them with your missiles

4) the engine will then be targettable, destroy it

5) stay behind the engines until you get a mission saying the ship was taken over

6) destroy the first couple waves of fighters

7) as soon as the gunboats spawn, fly back to the rebel outpost or kashyyyk station

8) wait a few minutes and you will complete the mission

this works because in order for the gunboats to destroy the vette, they must hit the different components precisely, so unless you're unlucky, you should be ok

the advanced xwing is identical to a regular xwing except that it has 180k mass.

Ill have to try leaving after the gunboat spawns. When I tried that thing spawned an litterly 5 seconds later the vette was destroyed, couldnt figure out how that happened. Ill also try taking out just the shields vs guns then shields.

From what I hear if you replied weak you are screwed.

Yeah this mission is really simple now that I read a few posts. What I ended up doing was taking out escorts (dont fire on vette). Then get right behind engines and take out shield and secondary shield with missiles (It took me 7missiles for both). At that point you can now target the engines, do not destroy yet. You will notice the vette is heading toward the rebel space station. I waited until it was 6k away then disabled the engines which starts the automatic takeover. Once the takeover is complete its time to escort (dont go near the vettes guns until the take over is complete). Some people have waited until the vette is 4k from the reb space station before taking it over. Once the escort starts you will have to kill a few waves of tier 3 and 4 fighters. When the gunboat spawns stay away from it, the corvette will handle the gunboat and being so close to its hyperspace point you dont have to worry about it being destroyed. As soon as I saw the gunboat spawn I headed to the reb space station. Just as I reached the space station the mission completed.