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Thread: Hello! Gunboat Incoming.
TUMOS_GHOST wrote:
lol. but its not impossible to kill those gunboats, there is a nice blind spot under their wings
Well yes and no, you'r thinking of the usual gunboats, the one in this mission goes nearly 1k speed, manuevers like an X-wing, and attacks you like those swarms of droid fighters. There is no blind spot because it's nose is allways on your tail.
Best thing to do is either wait till toward the end before disabling the vette, or leave it's guns intact when you disable it, then simply run around trailing that gunboat till the vette jumps, it should be able to handle itself.
Sylia wrote:
TUMOS_GHOST wrote:
lol. but its not impossible to kill those gunboats, there is a nice blind spot under their wings
Well yes and no, you'r thinking of the usual gunboats, the one in this mission goes nearly 1k speed, manuevers like an X-wing, and attacks you like those swarms of droid fighters. There is no blind spot because it's nose is allways on your tail.Best thing to do is either wait till toward the end before disabling the vette, or leave it's guns intact when you disable it, then simply run around trailing that gunboat till the vette jumps, it should be able to handle itself.
nonon i know which ones you are talking about. helped many friends through it. just fly fast ahead and spin. you will land a couple shot and their belly. rinse and repeat
Be careful not to shoot the gunboats - if you don't hit them they won't aggro you and will just go after the vette.
After the vette has left though they will turn their attention to you so get out of there quick of you don't want to deal with them. Unfortunately they continue to hang around the rebel outpost so if you don't take them out you could upset someone else by leaving them there.
I tried waiting til 6k from the station but the vette then hypered out before I could disable it. Yeah,I could have been hitting it faster maybe, but not by much. The point is that at 6k you don't have much time to fart around, get it disabled fast.
On my own success I disabled the vette farther out and had to deal with gunboats as we approached the station. Made a run at the first one becauseI really didn't want it to pound the vette now that I was finally close to completing this missionsoI got pounded instead. Made another run at it and was seriously damaged. EJECT! EJECT! On instinct I ran for the station trailing three gunboats (the other ones showed up, yay) and half a dozen fighters. The nearly ignored vette reached it's hyper point and I got the success message....just before blowing up in spectacular fashion. Was quite proud of myself until I flew back to the station ASAP and found the gunboats still there and still pissed at me. Blew me up again cause I wasn't paying attention...oops.
No matter, I got my heavy Xwing. WooHoo!
Message Edited by Tammerlane on 06-14-2005 06:56 AM
I've completed this twice, once neutral and once rebel, and recommend leaving the weapons in-tact. In both cases I took out weapon 5 and then picked the shields adn engine apart. Even if farther out, like 8000m, the corvette can take care of it-self. I just spent my time staying alive and dodging the gunboats. Didn't even try to kill them just stayed alive. Worked both times.
Jathen
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