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Thread: IMP squadrons. Which is easiest?
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BigKabuki
Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:04 am
#1
OK, I give up. I've been getting my butt handed to me for the longest time doing Storm Squadron tier 3. Is either of the other two Imperial squads easier than this?
macnider123123
Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:24 am
#2
The inquisition is generally regarded as the easiest of the three Imp squadrons. Dull missions though.
Satch_of_GL
Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:44 am
#3
Get some friends or go out to the Imperial Pilot's chat channel to get some help. As always, you get more help if you offer to help first.
Ducimus
Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:33 am
#4
BigKabuki wrote:OK, I give up. I've been getting my butt handed to me for the longest time doing Storm Squadron tier 3. Is either of the other two Imperial squads easier than this?
Heh well storm is probably the hardest in the game.
Inquisition is definatly a runner up for the easiest in the game, but for sure its the easiest imperial squadron to enter.
Calvintus
Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:42 pm
#5
I'm in the same boat. But a True WARRIOR never said, "Mommy? Which squadron is the easiest?"
1st_Viduus
Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:22 am
#6
Despite claims otherwise Black Epsilon is the hardest of the three squadrons. The NPC's hit harder than either SS or II, and the missions are of equal length (some nearly identical) to those in SS. Karthak Queen can chew through my Oppressor's shields and armor in the first pass, for example.
Storm Squadron is hard if you can't take out your targets before the next spawn starts - definitely easy if you have friends and do it as a group. The infamous 3-hour mission takes 25 minutes if you wipe out each wave as it spawns. The mission here with 2 gunboats isn't scary at all; these 2 gunboats are rather lacking in firepower.
So unless you can afford top-of-the-line equipment as you climb and you have friends to help you through it, I wouldn't advise it.
Imperial Inquisition is commonly (and mistakenly) referred to as "the easiest". I guess that's because until a few patches ago, some of their missions were broken but still completable, making it easy. Those missions have been fixed.
II is not as hard as BE, but harder (firepower of enemy-wise) than SS; however, it is not as intense as either of those two.
I've been doing missions as a helper for all three squadrons since November as a helper for a great many pilots.
In the end I'd say, it depends completely on your skills and equipment, each has its own challenges.
If you want easy, I'd suggest you go with a Privateer squadron, where you won't have the additional challenge of fitting all your equipment in your ship -- Dunelizard has 70k mass allowance and 2 gunslots.
Zilod
Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:06 pm
#7
mostly agree with Viduus, imo II is harder than BE but BE have the hardest tier3 anyway they are pretty close as "raw difficulty"
just a correction, the lizard is 85k mass and no more70k
KaylBreinhar
Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:49 am
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Black Epsilon's Tier 3 missions REALLY get you in shape for the Tier 4s. The Tier 3 exit mission dealing with the Nova disable/escort, Nova destroy, fend off part, and destroying that beastly Karthakk Queen gunboat armed with Missiles o' Death...makes you quite glad that the hardest ship you'll effectively face in Tier 4 is a T5 YT-1300 that's easy enough to kill if you do some fancy flying.
One or two of Inq's T4 missions aren't cakewalks, but the rest is dull but soloable.
Storm Squadron has that fiendish escorts + twin Novas + twin Gunboat mission, though - all the horrid elements of the BE T3 exit mission rolled into one nightmarish ball of death and destruction. I had to help a friend on that one - came out bloodied and bruised, but alive.
One or two of Inq's T4 missions aren't cakewalks, but the rest is dull but soloable.
Storm Squadron has that fiendish escorts + twin Novas + twin Gunboat mission, though - all the horrid elements of the BE T3 exit mission rolled into one nightmarish ball of death and destruction. I had to help a friend on that one - came out bloodied and bruised, but alive.
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