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Thread: Storm Squadron Tier 3 intro mission.
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Shiorisoujaboy
Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:48 pm
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Ok I know alot of people have had problems with this mission so I decided to give a small walkthrough on it. Being a somewhat seasoned pilot (I solo'd all the vortex missions and RSF missions without help except for the vette) I still had difficulty with this mission. It took me about 5 tries of trial and error to get it right.
What you Should have.
Tie/in with approx. 40k mass
Crafted MKII reactor with at least 12500 energy
Crafted engine with at leat 75 top speed and a minimum of 45YPR
Crafted MKII or III armor.
Overcharged MKIII shield generator with at least 1100 protection and 7.5 recharge
crafted MK1 or II booster with at least 25 top speed.
Crafted heavy blasters 1000-1600 damage. I prefer weapons with the quick shot upgrade.
Re'd capacitor with at least 800 energy and 32 recharge.
Droid interface with these programs:
Reactor overload 3
Engine overload 3
Weapon overload 3
Capacitor overload 2
As soon as you launch get all your droid programs running. It's imperative you have every program running before you meet up with the ship you have to escort. Once the wings of rebel fighters start attacking have it em. You should be able to destroy them all before the next wing spawns or at least be down to 1 ship before the next wing spawns. Always take down the y-wings or b-wings first since they shoot missiles and can raise hell on your shields.
The first part of the mission is by far the easiest. After you escort the ship you're going to be required to help another ship, you have to disable it then capture it. After you have destroyed it's escort, disable the ship and wait for it to fall back under imperial control. You're going to be required to escort this ship to it's jump point as well. It's not very difficult, same as the last ship. Just make sure you take down the Y-wings and B-wings first because those missiles are mean.
After you escort the second ship you're going to be required to disable and dock with a tier 3 rebel awing. But you still have all those fighters from the last ship chasing you. Well if you have the engines I suggested and are running all the suggested programs you should be able to boost out of their range and fly to the next part of the mission with relative ease. Your top speed non-boosting while running engine OL3 should be between 930-950.
This part of the mission is really easy. Just disable the a-wing and dock with it. After you complete this task you're going to be required to escort yet another ship. This one will be around 10k distance from you and you'll have to dock with it to repair it first. Once you get about 3k away from it, take a long path around so you don't fly directly through a spawn of tier 4 z-95s which aren't really friendly towards imperials. If you take the right course, the closest z-95 will be about 1k away and none of them should engage you.
After you dock with the freighter and get it going you're gonna be fighting off wave after wave of enemy fighters. Concentrate on the B-wings, Y-wings, and tier 4 ships first. Near the end of this last escort mission you'll fly through a nebula where a black sun fighter spawn will be hanging around. If you've done your job there won't be any b-wings or y-wings left, if that's the case concentrate your fire on the black sun ships, they can all fire missiles, they're all tier 4 and they will make your life hell. Finally when the freighter jumps and the mission is clear boost out of there and head to the final waypoint. Your boost speed should be well over 1100 leaving the enemy fighters eating your space dust.
Finally for the last part of the mission you have to fly about another 10k to renzevous with an imperial shuttle to drop off some codes you stole off that a-wing from earlier. You're going to be harassed the entire way. Everytime a spawn of rebel fighters comes at you, hit the boost and fly right through them. By the time they turn around you should be out of thier firing range. Once you get to the shuttle, don't waste any time. Just dock with it. Some fighters will start to attack you but it doesn't matter. Just dock with the shuttle to finish off this mission. As long as you finish the docking procedure the mission is done. Once the docking procedure is completed boost out of there and hyper back to yavin4.
Good luck since I know what a pain that mission can be.
Quick tips and references.
Tier 3 awing top speed 719
Tier 4 xwing top speed 809
Tier 4 awing top speed 899
Your top speed non boost should be at least 930
Your top speed with boost should be at least 1100
There's nothing wrong with running from a fight you can't win.
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