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Thread: Tier 1 Freelance Freighter escort,, can't seem to beat it.. any tricks to it?
As in, the third mission in the Tier?
With escorts, try to fly out in front of the escort ship a little. When the incomign fighters show, target one and try to blow it up before they get past you. Now you only have two ships to worry about.
Also, disabling ships will give you some extra time. Just take out their engine (or knock it down to say, 5%) and leave them cruising out in space. You can disable faster than you can kill, normally.
In addition to what attacca said:
Watch your target: It's pretty obvious to take out thatTIE bomber before you take out a TIE fighter (which is just going to throw a weak volley of lasers at them once and awhile.)
Keep the enemyguessing: Fire on one for a few seconds, get their attention, then switch to the next. They fire in volleys, and attacking a craft will stop their approach.
There have been very few times where I've needed to do these things, but they DO help.
Attacca's advice is sound.
What tier is the transport? I hate missions where there are tier 2/3/4 enemies groups of 4 in waves against a tier 1 transport with 50% shields to start. Just plain stupid.