Pilot Archive
Thread: Guide: Solo the Rebel or Imperial vette in 5 easy steps.
Amanda143
Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:29 am
#14
You can allways just Kill the fighters then Take out the vette Engines and the GUnboats will FLy past the vette, at least thats how i did mine dident have 2 touch the gunboats.
Narrganocca
Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:18 pm
#15
yeah, all you vette demolishers out there...be kind take out the garbage at the end (GB's)
Ducimus
Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:29 pm
#16
Amanda143 wrote:
You can allways just Kill the fighters then Take out the vette Engines and the GUnboats will FLy past the vette, at least thats how i did mine dident have 2 touch the gunboats.
I guess you kinda missed a few important points in my guide.
BelarrnSorak
Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:41 pm
#17
i dind't see it anyware but what is average time between vette spawns? that is provided the the GB's are cleaned up.
Ducimus
Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:28 pm
#19
Ezis wrote:Um... I've had 3 rebel corvettes spawn within a total time of 45 minutes.
That is true. Sometimes the spawn in kessel is WAAAAYYY out of whack. Ive acutally seen three Star Ravangers up at once. Made things *mighty* intresting considering two of them were only 4000 meters apart. Two fighter screens at once wasnt fun (how i got 2 of them ill never know). However the "offical" spawn timer unless its changed in any recent patch is 2 hours.
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And ya, if the bronco starts to buck, all bets are off, start improvising a new method as you go
ShadowfireKarp
Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:46 pm
#20
if you have an ace friend that can blow the RSS in DS it will force the vette spawn in kessel
not sure but maybe works for the ISD and imp vette too
Karp (a.k.a. "Bubba Phett")
Ducimus
Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:59 pm
#21
ShadowfireKarp wrote:if you have an ace friend that can blow the RSS in DS it will force the vette spawn in kesselnot sure but maybe works for the ISD and imp vette too
First time i ever heard of that. Would explain alot of wonky spawning behaviour in kessel if true though. Can anyone confirm this?
Ezis
Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:14 am
#22
Um... I've had 3 rebel corvettes spawn within a total time of 45 minutes.
Also, you can wait until the Vette is down before you engage the gunboats, I've almost always destroyed the gunboat escort after the Vette is down. The destruction of the gunboats is key to having another corvette spawn, but as long as you destroy them before they start flying in circles, you don't have to worry about the corvette not spawning again.
droid327
Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:21 am
#23
Too bad this is pretty much null if the bronco starts to buck, though, huh? 
Ducimus
Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:14 pm
#24
Just a little bumpage for the weekend, i know someone somewhere is gonna try and make ace this weekend, hopefully this guide helps. If not, hey at least i tried
fox183
Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:23 pm
#25
Ok, first off.
This is awesome. Thank you for this guide.
Now for my question.
Does anyone know where all of the guns are located on the corvette?
Number 5 is appartently the rear gunner, but what are the rest?
Also, on a gunboat where are all of the guns located? Is gun 3 the rear one?
I remember seeing this listed before, but I have lost the post....
Ducimus
Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:34 pm
#26
>>Number 5 is appartently the rear gunner, but what are the rest?
Theres a diagram out there somewhere, but id be hard pressed to find it now. Turret 5 on the corvette is acutally the bottom vette. Think of it as the ball turret on a WWII B17 bomber. It's the only turret on the bottom and provides covering fire for the gunboats. Its the thing that keeps you from taking the gunboats out first.
As to the location of the rest of the turrets, well theres 1 directly on either side, and i think about 4 turrets or so along the top in two rows. If you use MKIII torpedo's from under and behind the vette though, the rest of the turrets are totally irrelvant.
Theres a diagram out there somewhere, but id be hard pressed to find it now. Turret 5 on the corvette is acutally the bottom vette. Think of it as the ball turret on a WWII B17 bomber. It's the only turret on the bottom and provides covering fire for the gunboats. Its the thing that keeps you from taking the gunboats out first.
As to the location of the rest of the turrets, well theres 1 directly on either side, and i think about 4 turrets or so along the top in two rows. If you use MKIII torpedo's from under and behind the vette though, the rest of the turrets are totally irrelvant.