Pilot Archive

So the other day I actually got lucky and was able to kill the corvetted. I say lucky because I got waxed three times trying to solo it before I was fortunate enough to have an Imp pilot grinding in Kessel throw his bomber strike 1 down on the corvette for me.

A few notes to the new:

-The corvette is very difficult to solo the first time.

-If you are freelance and try to take out turret 5 first, use extreme caution. I tried this 2 times and was slightly purplexed at how quickly I died immediately after destroying the turret. What I learned is that until the fighter escort is destroyed or occupied, the corvette would actually roll and pitch to bring it's top turrets to bear on me. Once I took out the fighter escort this no longer was a problem as the only movement the corvette made was during it's normal turns to move to the exit point. Personally I recommend destroying the escort first before even touching the corvette regardless of faction.

-Tagging the escort to draw them away from the corvette is *not* a matter of just flying in, shooting one, and flying out. Since the escort is within around 500m of the corvette, you need to use caution because the corvette turret range is 1000m. Note this is a problem with privateers because you actually have to fly in and shoot a ship to get the aggro. Make sure you are below the corvette and attack the escort that is furthest from the corvette to minimize damage.

-Although it is indicated that missiles don't need line of sight to hit the corvette turrets, the reality is that they need some LOS. If you sit behind and below the corvette, there are some shots that the missile will path through the ship engines.! found that my missiles exploded at that point without hitting their mark. Remember that missiles will also explode on friendly or groupmate ships. I wasted a lot of missiles learning some of these lessons.

Bottom line is that taking on the corvette solo the first time is not for the faint of heart. The learning curve is steep, the cost of failure steep (about 400-600 decay on your ship), the reward for success is great. My recommendation to any freelance pilot is to do the IMP mission against the reb corvette regardless of the roleplay you have chosen unless you know you are going to get help. I also recommend that you get someone with bomberstrike to help you. It can be anyone that has bomberstrike 1, if they are willing to help, because with another pilot just using bomberstrike your task is just a matter of time.