Missile down his throat during fly by strategy

Fri Mar 28, 2003 5:48 pm by Weadge

I disagree with the masses. missles are a good compliment to my arsenal. Right now I like the Catapult and Sweepers. Shoving a few of those down their throat on the first pass does a great job of weakening them up so I can down them easily on the next pass. I probably only use 3-4 missles for each encounter but they have been working well for me in combination with the guns.

Even more so I use the razor mines to ward off attacking bandits while I'm working on another one. Using the whole arsenal of mines, missles and guns is not only very effective but fun.

And let's face it, once you complete the single player campaign, money is pretty easy to come by so the expense of the missles is not my concern.

Oon-tee-dee!

Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:03 pm by BaddMonkeyGod

Right..... well for the most part laser guns are the way to go. I use a Z sabre with 4 lasers, 2 plasma cannons, 1 turret (duh)and 1 torpedo cannon.

For the most part the lasers always hit per round of shots, the cannons arent as fast nor do they always hit, but they are definately good when they do hit.

They way ive got it is my turret is a shield hitter, does like 800 or something per hit. the lasers are multi bout 120 to hull and 80 to shields i think, and the plasma cannons are straight out hull doing like 200 something each. I never use the torpedo in ship-ship combat, but it sure is fun blowing stationary objects up with them =)

Im not quite sure how most people fight but i like to fight with my engines cut off.

Sounds kinda wierd but try it its awesome. Nothing looks cooler when you are flying sideways next to an enemy flying forwards as you blast a couple rounds of lasers down his throat and blows up. Also the partial effect (aka the "mini" stars that fly by you when you fly around) look cool too come each and every way.

I have found though if you load yourself up with like 6 missle weapons you can do quite alot of damage assuming you have them in weapon orders cuz if not then you are bound to miss alot more.

Fri Mar 28, 2003 7:17 pm by Jester

The down-the throat shot is the BEST way to use missiles, if you are gonna use them. However, the very best way is to shoot thier shields down to 0 and then get them with the down the throat shot. it will either kill them or bring their hull down to next to 0.

If you do this with a torpedo instead, their just plain space-dust!!

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