Pilot Archive

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Qjet wrote:

i have two storys for everyone today, the first is when i formed a large and pretty powerful group of people and how we got slaughtered to our compleate amazment, and the second was how i amazingly got out of been slaughterd.

the first story:

with dreams of heavy X-Wings in my head i had assembled a team of generaly profesional looking players. First we had two slightly lower level players in light ships, they would make good attackers for thoes pesky tier 5 ships with the space bombs so they dont dropem on the corvett i solo captured (which is pretty easy). and then there was a guy in a heavy Xwing with some pretty deadly weapons, he was a good pilot and could hit hard. a great asset as he could really demolish ships, he genraly killed the same amount as me if not a bunch more ( i wasnt watching his kills). And finaly a POB ship, we were confident in our numbers and i convinced the POB captian who was training some new crewmen that some safe protected intense action would be a great training course, a once in a lifetime (if things had gone according to plan it would of be a once in a life time training experiance for the fledgling crewmembers) So we had two heavy hitters, me and a guy 1 (no names shall be named cause this was embarising as much as it was horrifying) guy 2 and guy 3 as interceptors and tacklers for fighters, and guy 5 and his fledgling crew with the big friggin guns as heavy fire support. I got the corvett mission, grouped our team up, and went at the corvet, the initial fighter escort fell extreamly fast, the team knew what they were doing and we did it well. Gun 5 on the corvet was droped imidiatly along with the two side guns. the shield genorators droped just as fast and the corvett was ours in record time. we had assumed formation around the corvett along with some of the interceptor players right at the far front so they could imidiatly attack the tier 5 fighters, the corvett had 99% system damage. untill... we had expected tier 5 fighters to spawn... but what spawned instead was 2 tier 5 fighters and one *sob* tier 5 ghrag gunship. I quickly told the interceptors to attack thoes fighters and let me and guy 1 concentrate on that gunship. We opend fire, and so did it. Imediatly guy 1's shields started droping like a stock market crash and he pulled off, then thoes guns got on top of me. i shield shunted and corckscrewed out of harms way as best i could as this tier 5 gunship who after geting a solid amount of bombarding was only down to 70% shield, proceaded to chase me and guy 1 blowing our shields as he went. We both IFF spoofed and the tier 5 gunship went for the interceptors, at this time another gunship had spawned along with 2 tier 5 fighters. the interceptors were instantly killed and the second gunship proceaded to maul guy 1 and me, the POB crew ejected without telling the captian and he lost his ship. I was killed and the mission was lost.

second story:

ive taken the mission from that YT-1300 thats patroling kashyyyk station, i had absolutly no trouble with thoes tier 5 fighters, dust under my feet. didnt even get down to 98% shield damage. then i get a message telling me a ghrag gunship is after me. after i pick up my shatterd nerves from this message (after watching what happend to my attempt on doing the heavy x-wing mission with 4 fairly strong fighters and a crewed POB ship ) i proceaded to the waypoint, i planed that if i could take out the engin or reactor really fast i could run away and lick my massive wounds then dive in and out on the gunship till it died. It warped in and engaged me, i took 4 hits from the top gun turret as i bombarded its shield. the eject button then poped up because my booster and capacitor had gone dead, i took my eyes off my health for a split second so i could keep my aim and when i went back my front shield and armor were compleatly depleated. I used the remaining booster power i had left and floored it out, this gunboat still on my tail, compairing how fast i was geting away from it (i was doing 1141) that thing had to be doing 1000+ and when i looked at its shields it said 96%.

the point of all this is what on earth is the weakness in the ghrag gunships... These things are frigging floating grim reapers! they have impressive manuverability and speed that would outrun a large portion of the JTL population, their shields stand up to that of a tier 5 imperial gunship, and these things hit like you wouldent belive... frequintly! What on earth is their weakness? was my stratigy flawed on the heavy X-wing quest? Do these gunboats have an easily exploitable blind spot? i would apreciate any help you could offer

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