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HELP- Mission at the ARCH

If you are stuck in a mission and do not know how to continue, this is the place to ask for help. Missing that elusive Level 10 Shield? Don''t know where to find the lost Ohtori ship? This is the only place where spoilers are allowed!

Post Fri May 02, 2003 5:27 pm

HELP- Mission at the ARCH

When trying to destroy the shield generators at the Arch (with the Blood Dragons), I always get blasted by the battleship near the base... I am level 17, and have all the best available weapons, but my shield gets destroyed so quickly that I can't take out the generators. Does anyone out there have any ideas about how I can get past this mission?

There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Post Fri May 02, 2003 5:37 pm

stock all your torpedoes and release them on that battleship.. ive got 8 battleship kills to date and 1 ofthem include that one then help the others finish off the gunboats and fighters forget getting the arch for the moment and concentrate on wiping everything from the face of that fortress.. when all is clear.. DOCK...

argh.. im never gonna get paid.. goodbye a million credits..

Post Fri May 02, 2003 10:46 pm

I made the mistake of taking a Bretonia Cavalier Light Fighter into that mission... no torp hardpoint. I did get past that level by getting to a position POINT BLANK with the Generators....stay close enough and repostion yourself in such a way that the nearby battleship can only hit the shield itself. The fighters and gunboats will most likely be distracted by the Blood Dragons. It worked for me at least.

Post Sat May 03, 2003 4:22 am

Hawk works just fine. Sat in the battleship's blind spot, blew it to crap, then turboed around killing generators. Full weapon range, run in firing, turn 90 degrees, repeat on next generator...circle until they're all toast.

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Post Sat May 03, 2003 10:23 am

Listen Guys,

just fly throug the the hole in the base and stay there, and the battleship can not hit you (maybe 2 time), and no fighter or gunboat will ever try to go after you., and sorry to say......forget about the missiles and torpedoes, fun to use, but useless in combat.

Post Sat May 03, 2003 11:37 am

Missles are useless, but torpedoes are ESSENTIAL in the SP game w/o em , you will really have a fun time trying to destroy all those generators and battleships near the end

Ya know..life is a game, a very complex game, the main difference from a computer game is that the game of life has no save reload button...

Post Sun May 04, 2003 8:13 am


but torpedoes are ESSENTIAL in the SP game

he's right.. at the time being there is no more powerful weapons that you can use except the torps and i have fun blowing all those ships up including the battleships sure yopu can hide under a blindspot of the battleship but you play games for fun ilke my game to be as it is realistic.

argh.. im never gonna get paid.. goodbye a million credits..

Post Sun May 04, 2003 9:24 am

Thanks for the help all- I'll give it another shot...


There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Post Sun May 04, 2003 9:45 am

Missiles are sometimes very usefull.

You just have to wait for the right moment to use em against enemy fighters, like for example when a fighter is coming right at you shooting you in the front of you're ship.
There is a small time window in witch you can fire a missile at him when he can't dodge it.The only thing he can do is countermeasure it, but he still get's lotts of damage because the missile explodes very close to him.

Blew up a lot of fighters this way.

Post Sun May 04, 2003 2:03 pm

What is the problem,
i just flew to the generators and destroyed them (i always fly to them, pass them, fly away and return) i did it whit the bretonia crusader whit no torpedo or missiles. Just shoot

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