Pilot Archive

Calling any available AhaziRebel or Smuggler Alliance Pilots that can make it tomorrow night (Friday 4/1 at 10 pm CST). For questions / cooridination use my in-game name of Nimirwen. We'll form-up at the spawn by 10pm and wait for the Vette to arrive. Once it spawns we'll have about 15-30 minutes to complete the job so don't be too late.

What: Completing the Rebel / SMA Ace Pilot Mission: Destroy the Imperial Corvette (Star Ravager)

When: 4/1/2005 Friday at 10 pm CST (11pm EST). We'll form our group and wait until it spawns (could be up to 2 hours though). We can use the group-chat to stay in communication in case the wait gets to be too painful. Then once it spawns we can call people back in.

Where: Meet in Kessel near the spawn (7344, 7550, 6268)

What to Bring: MK III Photon Torpedo launcher with at least 10 rounds of ammo. Ammo packs should be of good quality and have all experimentation points used in Min and Max damage.

Read this tutorial by Ducimus to be fully prepared.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=pilot&message.id=51484

How to do the Imperial Corvette: (The rebel pilot version)
- Spawns at (7344, 7550, 6268) and exits at (-6650, -245, -6258).


Step by step:
1.) Wait
4000 meters or so from the spawn waypoint, when it spawns, let all the ships settle down and get into formation and start their flight path.


2.) Draw the fighters:
Get them away from the corvette/gunboat formation and kill them all.
- Kill the T/I's, T/A's and T/O's first. JOUST the aggressors last. As long as you dont get directly behind an aggressor, i find them not much more than annoying, its getting behind one that sucks, so joust them.

***Note: Steps 2 and 3 are acutally interchangable in the case of privateers as the whole formation is yellow to you until you hit one of them. So it acutally makes sense to hit turret 5 first, then drag the fighters away. So if their still yellow to you, do step 3 before step 2. However if their red to you for whatever reason before you destroy turret 5, then follow the steps as listed. Step two, then three. ***


3.) Destroy turret number 5.
Come in directly UNDER the vette, target turret 5 and do a strafing run. You could also try torpedo's, but i find aquiring a missle lock takes a bit too long. Make sure you have CTSS4 ready incase you get hit..


4.) Kill the gunboats:
The Imperial gunboats are acutally easy to kill once you know where the blindspot is.
That blindspot is acutally the same location as rebel gunboats, only the blindspot its a tad narrower. Come in from UNDER and BEHIND the gunboat, and *almost* to the center of its underbelly. The foward gun turrets firing arc ends about there, and the rear turret seems to have about a 20 degree downward firing arc.

***** In action, all this means is if you cant disable the engines quickly, you'll have to scoot foward a bit and reposition yourself before you come into the rear gun turrets firing arch. Other than that, theres NO DIFFERENCE between a rebel or imperial gunboat*******

Killing an imperial gunboat is about as easy as a rebel gunboat. They fly in formation and never break it. So NO EXCUSES, kill them. Again, if you can't take these out, KNOWING where to approach them from (and i just told you) you don't deserve the ace title.



5.) Kill the Vette:
Now you have to destroy the vette. If it has remaing turrets or not is of little consquence as long as you stay under and behind the corvette at all times. With your MK III photon torpedo launcher, shoot at the following components, it each takes two missles to destroy.

-Primary Shield
-Secondary shield

Thiswill expose the Engine. Your already in position, shoot it out with blasters. Now shoot two more missles at the Reactor, and then the bridge. No, dont manuever around, stay where you are under and behind the corvette. Missles apparenly do not require line of sight.

KABOOM, no more corvette.

Jorrai Takkori
Elder jedi
Force explorer