Battleships...mmm...fun...
Me and a few friends had an ill-fated plan to attack the Missouri as it sat there ripe for the plucking. We approached in formation...as we neared, a friend and I who both had torpedoes began firing them like crazy (from max range out - they won't start trying to gun down the torpedoes till they're already hostile
) I personally unloaded almost 30, and the other guy with the torpedoes dropped about 20, while our wingmen kept the liberty police and navy and their grandmothers, and their dogs, and whatever else they could shove in a ship and send at us, busy. It was all nothing more than a colossal waste of time and money. The two of us with the torpedoes made it to cruise and got away while the other two were a bit less fortunate... After that, I decided to stick to a life of piracy as no one in liberty liked me...
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(nothing worse than what other people have said...)
The moral of the story, attacking the battleships you can dock at is a good way of gathering at one location every fighter in a system and then some, but it's not good for much else. In the SP campaign, I destroyed like 5 or 6 battleships during story missions, but i've yet to see any free-flying battleships in MP.
Question - does anyone know if you get missions for the pirates to take out troublesome battleships? I haven't seen this yet, but I was thinking about it as I was blowing up yet another 'base' with 4 weapons platforms...
All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
--JRR Tolkien