Same thing happened to me; i would be torpedo-ing a battleship and some annoying NPC would go and take the very last shot. I too ended my SP campaign with 0 battleship kills, but who the hell cares? I know i killed the ships and that is all that matters (to me) As far as the nomad ships counting, I don't think so. Though I have never really checked to be sure..

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No, killing Nomad battleships doesn't count toward your battleship kills. I replayed the SP missions just to be sure of this, kinda sucks...

Regular Cruisers do count though, and I think possibly Gunboat/Ships as well.
Incidentally, the earliest Battleship kill you can score in the game is the LNS Unity (during the Escape from New York mission!!! )...but that isn't an easy kill since Walkers cruiser goes after it as well (only managed to kill it once).

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I ended the SP campaign with 7 battleship kills. If cruisers count, which I am convinced they do NOT, then the actual number was 5 battleships.

Most of these, though, have to be done outside of mission objectives. For example, after escaping Alaska system, a battleship or two blocks the exit from Zone 21. The the Osiris decloaks, and you're told to dock with it. You can, however, sit around and kill the battleship(s).

The same is true of a couple other missions where you're supposed to run away - you can hang around just long enough to score a BShip kill.

I had 4 kills, including the Rhineland one at the Jumpgate MIssion (7?), which was an adventure in and of itself, especially after splashing 2 of the cruisers and 10 gunboats. Stuff like that makes me crave missions like that after the SP Storyline...

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Cruisers do count as battleships...because I haven't gotten the killshot on a single battleship the whole game this time, but I did slam a cruiser and the counter reads 1.

On the other hand, gunboats count as fighters.

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Agreed...cruisers count as battleships. I can vouch for that. In mission 7, where you have to escort Quintaine and Sinclair out of Bretonia, there is a Rheinland cruiser guarding the jumpgate to Tau-31. I specificly checked my kill count before and after killing that cruiser, and it increased by one.

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Cruisers count but the nomad battleships dont? DA must be joking. I know the nomad fighters are a bit of a joke (storyline ones) but surely the battleships are harder than cruisers? Still, interesting about the cruisers tho, been meaning to restart SP - i'll be after them

Anyone got any idea how many potential battleship kills there are? Dare i start a 'who killed the most battleships' thread?

it depends...theres a whole arseload all over rhineland space in SP(as for whether or not you can kill the neutral ones, I have no idea, but it would be very interesting to see if you could)

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