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Iceman-KG-
Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:38 pm
#27
Never seen a gunboad, but to solo a gunboat, I used bomberstrike,then took out its engines and found where its turret couldn't reach. Cry exploit if you will, but if I disable engines THEN find a safe place, I call that a design flaw in the gunboat, not my fault.
fareone
Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:45 pm
#28
atytula wrote:
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.
people soloing vette...i saw it..
Vicotnik
Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:54 pm
#29
anubusx77 wrote:
I solo vettes, gunboats, and the rebel space station. Its not that hard just got to know your enemy
Yeah, it's really not that hard to solo a tier 5 gunboat if you really want to, not even as a rebel against those uber imperial gunboats.
All you need is some patience, a good shield, a good weapon and a gunboats without escorts. With some spatial awareness, you can maneuver yourself below the gunboat for each attack run and minimize the number of turrets that can attack you. Though IMHO, it's totalt not worth it though. The time it takes is not worth the 30k xp and the chance for some loot or not, of course it might be worth it if that is your mission though.
As for soloing a Corvette... Well, that's hard without bomberstrike. Especially if the Corvette has escorts (like the master mission corvette). It's totally possible with lots of missiles at any rate.
DavidHarper
Sat Nov 20, 2004 4:37 pm
#30
Target Weapon 2 (this is the main rear fireing weapon on Imperial Gunboats). Reinforce Forward Shields. Then keep fireing untill Weapon 2 is gone then its a walk in the park! Get the rest of the weapons 3-6 as these could prove dangerous and weapons 0-1 are no worry as they are forward facing. Once you know how to take somthing out its easy!
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