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I am currently a 4443 Corsec Pilot. I am however, apparently just as fool hardy as any corellian -

On this last mission, to clarify which one I'm stuck on, I Have to assist a corsec force in fighting off the black sun forces. This was.. laughably easy...and after the third ambush or so I made the mistake of saying this aloud. To teach me a lesson, this seemed to coincide the the sudden arrival of a couple gunboats and a few escorts. Now... this was early in the morning, I'd been grinding pilot xp all day and was rather out of it.

First mistake: I ignored the escorts, went for the closest gunboat.

Second mistake: Strafing run failed to take out the rear turret - instead of throttling back and finishing off the turret, I hit the booster. I don't know why I did this so dont ask - especially since I'd spent the day soloing tier 4 gunboats. This prompted the fully functional turrets of both gunboats to turn my poor ship into an expensive pile of slag.

Now, since I don't like asking for help I'll describe my plan of attack for attempt number two and simply ask for feedback on whether or not this will work.


First change: Once those escorts are out and about, start picking them off. Take them away from the gunboats if necessary (it was two escorts that ended up taking me out).

Second change: Once I have a clear line of fire at that rear turret, throttle back and keep pounding it till it's gone - one pass got it to 40%, on the previous attempt.

Then.. (now this is the part I planned anyways but never got to try.)
Keep the now weakened gunboat between me and the full strength gunboat until I can get an opening to pass between them and disable the rear turret of the second gunboat - then proceed to take them out at my leisure.

I know this will require some fancy flying, but I've been making my poor little Rix..I'm not even going to try to spell it.. dance as well as my dunelizard lately, and I *think* I could pull it off.

So.. to wrap it up, any advice, tips, or corrections would be greatly appreciated. Dont have my ships stats on hand, but I just upgraded to a 1650 front/back 14.5 regen shield (from 1600 f/b 11.0 regen) and a 12.5 speed droid interface, I use the level 8 reward gun, a looted level 8 gun with similar stats, and a crafted level 7 gun (1600-2380 25 energy/shot .28 refire if I remember correctly) on my ship. I use shield shunt 3 religiously whenever I'm taking more than a glancing hit, and run weapon overload3, capacitor overload 3 and reactor overload 3. (using a level 1 reactor since I dont care if it decays).

The only flaw in your plan is the fact that those two gunboats will spin and chase you. They will not give you any opportunity to sit in their blind spot and take out their rear gun, they will turn immediately.

Here is my advise.

1. Fly through the cloud, hit a few ships, take some aggro, and make sure the CorSec NPCs you are there to help have engaged the fighters. Hit IFF and move 2km out.
2. Let the CorSec fight the black sun for a couple minutes.
3. Now, go in and joust one of the gunboats. All the fighters should be attacking the CorSec.
4. Joust the other gunboat.
5. Mop up the rest.

Also, I would recommend dropping your firepower a little and running the reward shield.

You did not mention what ship you are flying. I did this in a Dune Lizard. I wouldn't recommend anything bigger, just too big and slow.

Good luck.

the reward shield doesnt seem much better than the one I use, for being twice as heavy. 1800 f/b 11 regen vs 1650 f/b 14 regen. If I were to put it in my dune lizard I couldn't have a booster, droid interface, or armor and still have weapons - which is why I stick to using my Rihkxyrk (ontop of being unable to maneuver the dune lizard.. way too twitchy for my tastes)

Will try letting corsec engage this time around.

update: After getting one gunboat down each run I get vaped by the fighters as they all turn on me for attacking the gunboat - and with IFF scramble down nothing I can do about it. About to try in my dune lizard but I fail to see how 1 2300 damage gun (all I can fit once I put any shield on it) and +50 speed is going to be superior to 3 3000+ damage guns . Also Corsec seems to suck. they have a gunboat in the fight but dont manage to actually do any damage during it.

update 2: dunelizard couldn't scratch the gunboats. ontop of it the station at dantooine wouldn't repair my ship. Gah. Ready to just give up on ever getting through this.

Message Edited by Tarden_Montaren on 05-28-2005 05:19 PM