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War Stories

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Post Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:07 pm

War Stories

This thread is for you to post all of your "war stories", that is, interesting or impressive stories from your Freelancer experience. Give details, and make it interesting. Feel free to post more than one, but try to keep them all in one or two posts.

Example: 12 Corsair Titans attacked me in Sigma-17 while I was flying my Humpback. They swarmed me, and I was firing my turrets and dropping mines like mad. I used all my shield batteries and nanobots, and limped to Kurile barely alive. However, I shot down all 12 Titans.

Have fun!

Post Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:10 pm

Use caution in what you tell, if it becomes spoiler material, it will be moved to that forum.

Post Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:00 pm

Yes, a good note.

Post Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:34 am

Just hopped out into Omega-5, and was ready to dock with Cadiz, and ready to get my next suicidal run through the endless minfields of that system, and had my Cruise Distruptor off (yeah yeah, I know, standard practice). I was testing my guns to see A), what they look like and if they fire foward or not. Well, I decided to test out my new Nomad gun that I'd picked up in a run through omicron Gamma, and hit the seven button instead of the siz button, thus firing a cruise distruptor that had Cadiz, as well as every (literally) ship in the system wanting my head. Whoo, that was a tough escape, even though I had a far superior (Titan v. Centurion) ship. Would have been funnier if it was a torpedo (I had Cadiz targeted) but still, it wasn't fun.

Also, this is a story from my days as a Humpback pilot in Galeleio, or whatever that system is. I had the standard weapons (Large number of useles weapons on a drunk-walrus style ship) and decided to go hunting. Well, I picked up 275 engine components, stared at the billions of food rations, water, oxygen, charred hulls of allies I accidently fired on, and decided to go to one of those Lane Hackers bases. Interestingly enough, the radiation blew my ship up prior to my landing. Sad, huh? I took out about ten transports and thirty fighters in a bid for 275 engine components, and promptly died. Never flew that piece of junk again, and swore off freightors for good.

Post Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:06 am

i alluded to this in a recent post. perhaps more experienced pilots would have figured it out quicker. but at least it's a lesson in how to make a short story long, very

i'm in the middle of the game plot again and before heading down to see my old pal dexter hovis who currently resides in my home town, i took a detour to tau 37. i'm in a dagger ( max class 4 weps n' shield )and to date preferred long range quick refire energy weps. ( i hope to complete the plot in the dagger but can't remember if i'll be forced to upgrade to a certain cheap heavy later or if that's only optional )

anyhoo...myself and the bounty hunters are having a little disagreement right now and they currently appear more deep crimson than red on my stat bar. every time i attempted to get off freeport 10 i was met by 10 or so well kitted and slightly irate hammerheads. up close and personal i could get 3 to 4 but with no asteroid field to hide in and recharge, my shields n' hull would finally give up.

i decided to do what any brave soldier would. hide! loaded out with windstalkers, slingshots and sweepers, the second i left the base i ducked back around it and used the arms of the freeport for cover waring down the hammerheads with missiles then finishing tham off with 1 dragoon and dragoon turret. note to self--reverse thrust helps bring you back to cover if you stray out.

10 hammerheads later i'm out and off back to leeds. problem is the outcasts seem to be in agreement with hunters on at least 1 subject --- i'm a dead man. i got ambushed by 5 or 6 outcast heavys at the next jumpgate. much weakened and ammo rapidly depleting there was only one thing to do. yes folks that's it...go back to the hunters at freeport 10. i did a fly by near a local patrol of 4 hammerheads with the 3 remaining outcasts taking lumps off my rear. when the 2 factions met each other they were willing enough to forget about the dying dagger long enough for me to get cruise up and me running, bruised tail firmly placed between battered legs

"My sig is in the post but the man in the shop promised I will find it witty and topical when it arrives."

Post Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:56 am

Well, Im full of 'em. I was goin pirating in MP in my Sabre (fav wep combo:2 kraken type 2s, 2 Nomie Blasters, 2 Nomie Cannons, and a Salamanca turret)

Im bad with everyone "good" except the Junkers, who are quasi-good, so Im resting at the Junker station in New Berlin, and I fill my ship up with b/b, head to the nearest trade lane. When I get there, I kill it, wait, then these 2 transports come up with gold and I think "Wow, Im so lucky, heh heh " so I attack them in my pirate fashion (afterburn to them, engine cut, get under them, attack their cargo containers, tractor, kill them) then I go back to the station, get a HUGE sum of money for it, then I see if I can work my magic again. I go back to the trade lane, I wait again, then, suddenly, about 2 wings of Valks come out of the trade lane, and behind me comes a Battleship group and Im like, "YIPE!" and I engage the B ship. I start to kill it when the Valks come behind me, and so I hide between that shield thingy on the Rhein B ship and the main part of the ship. I keep shooting, then the valks keep missing me and hitting the Bship (someone needs to go back to the academy ) the ship blows I kill the cruisers and gunboats, and I try engaging my Cruise, but the Valks have CDs. I try to kill them, then my hull gets low, then I remember I forgot to buy b/b at the station, so I try to afterburn to the Berlin moon, because I know that alot of Unioner ships hang over there who can help me. And, as I predicted, the Unioners and I shred the Valks to little subatomic particles. And that's how I destroyed the Rheinland navy.
***THE END***

Post Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:12 pm

....and then there was the time i let off a sunslayer and hit thrust!

....you all know what happens next

i had to get that in before anyone else did!

Post Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:22 pm

I have a bit of a habit of [ushing my luck in MP (and SP) and loosing a few shots at tradelanes and bases as i fly by.

I did that to a base in Kusari a bit too much.
I was in a dromedary at the time.
At the time, i was hunting a player who used a forbidden username, and was coming quite close, until almost the entire state of kusari came after me

Post Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:08 pm

The only incredibly thing ive ever done happened in omicron gamma in the eagle utopia server NOTE:this server has anticheat patches and stuff and mods to make NPCS incredibly hard and other wonderfull things like this

I was on a mission from crete to assasinate some bounty hunter idiot i kill them quikly ran away after destroying my target and on my way back with 2 dozen hammerheads on my tail i ran into 2 not 1 but 2 nomad battleships and seevral gunboats along with uncountable fighters the nomads targeted and slaughtered the hammerheads however i had enough time while they were occupied to take out most of the fighters and both of the Bships i afterburned my way out of the gunboats fire used the little glitch were if u engine kill and turn around they wont shoot at u and blew the gun boats to bits there fore earning 5 nomad blasters and 9 nomad cannons even though i could only mount 4 of them lol

Now how often do the noamds save ur tail?

Dont mess with the best, cause the best dont mess, Dont fool with the cool, cause the cool dont fool

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