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Thread: Tactics for gunboats please
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-Venom-
Fri May 20, 2005 3:57 pm
#1
I'm sure this has been covered before, but i can't seem to find any info on it. I'm working on my tier 3 third mission for imperial inquisition, and have a heck of time with a gunboat and 6 escort x-wings. I've tried a few things, tried my Tie interceptor and tried to attack from the bottom, but can't really seem to get a good look at his bottom, he doesn't exactly lay still for me blow him apart from underneath, and on all my fail passing attacks i get beat down by heavy fire from the gunboat. So i switched over to a Tie bomber with better componets and had limited sucsess jousting with only to run out of timewaiting for shields to regen and failing the mission. So any pointers on taking down a gunboat in quick fashion would be greatly apreciated. Thank you.
Agent001
Fri May 20, 2005 4:09 pm
#2
Make sure your targeting his engines. You gotta kill thos off first.
If the gunboat maneuvers a lot, you will most likely need to use missles to take out his engine first, or drop a bomberstrike on it to keep the guns distracted.
Pablokadman
Fri May 20, 2005 5:06 pm
#3
Not a pro but took down gunboat on tier 3 mission by slamming him head on targeting his engines.
IAs we passed i hit boosters out to 1k and turned on him. Eventually wore him down and left him til I disabled the fighters and bombers.
Ducimus
Fri May 20, 2005 5:34 pm
#4
>>gunboat and 6 escort x-wings
Mission gunboats are an intresting thing. Their intresting in that they follow you, and not a set flightpath, which makes them alot harder to take out. The first thing you should do is transform the fight into a jousting match. Trying to get into a furball with a formation like that is suicide for most people.
Then you should look at the package thats fixed on your tail.. You have one strikeforce of 6 xwings and one gunboat. COMBINED they present a certain level of firepower. What you need to do, is reduce the overall firepower of the formation to make it more managable. Now the question here is, what is the quickest way to do that? Joust and disable the fighters one by one and save the GB for last, or vice versa? Your call. Either way, target the gunboats engines first.
Mission gunboats are an intresting thing. Their intresting in that they follow you, and not a set flightpath, which makes them alot harder to take out. The first thing you should do is transform the fight into a jousting match. Trying to get into a furball with a formation like that is suicide for most people.
Then you should look at the package thats fixed on your tail.. You have one strikeforce of 6 xwings and one gunboat. COMBINED they present a certain level of firepower. What you need to do, is reduce the overall firepower of the formation to make it more managable. Now the question here is, what is the quickest way to do that? Joust and disable the fighters one by one and save the GB for last, or vice versa? Your call. Either way, target the gunboats engines first.
-Venom-
Fri May 20, 2005 6:13 pm
#5
Thanks for the info and the quick replies. Completed the mission by knocking out the gunbaot engines and leaving him flaoting and then dragged the 6 fighters away to fight them with out the gunboat supporting them. After that it was all down hill. Thank you very much again.
Goodnight...and good flight
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