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    • Monty Python?


      I've heard that this is some sort of "cheap" manuver, but what, exactly, is it? I probably have used it sometime, I just don't know what the name is specifically referring to.

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    • It refers to attacking computers. In EV the AI was not intelligent enough to turn around when you pumeled them. im sure you have started the same speed as say a confed cruiser chasing ou then drifted at the same speed as it was going while pumeling it with fire. you can theorticly kill abything slower than you this way (except the alien.) Im sure you have used it before, but dont worry we all do.

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    • If you have an afterburner, you can beat ships of any speed, really.

      You get going fairly fast in one direction, and slow down and speed up so as to get the enemy on your screen, travelling behind you in chase. Turn around, and - without firing thrusters - shoot at him. Momentum will carry your shots to him, but he cannot shoot you without it trailing off behind him. Works great. It is taken from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which Arthur and his men often yell, "run away! run away!" That has got to be the best movie ever made.

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    • Yeah, whenever my sheilds get way down, which only happens against the confed fleets with two cruisers and a frigate, I use it.

      It is the best movie ever, no doubt. Anyone who hasn't seen it isn't sane...

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    • That is exactly the way I play - kinda cheap though. I captured a Kestrel in a corvette that way, although I figured it out while playing EVO. It is about the only way to beat the dreadnought, but this is an EV site. Never knew it was called "Monty Python" though (It is a great movie 🙂 )

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    • Circling is an easier way to beat the Voinian Dreadnought, IIRC from the ages past when I fought it.

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    • Yes, okay, I know exactly what you're talking about, I use that quite a bit. Thanks for enlightening me. 🙂

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    • Yeah I love that trick!

      Monty python holy grail=awsome

      warning quotes ahead
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      -"and the lord did grin, and the people feasted on the {forgot}, and the breakfast cerials, and the freuit bats, and th..." "oh just get to the grenade part!
      -"we are the knights who say Ni! to pass you must bring us a shrubbery!"
      -"there is only one contradiction, we are now the knights who say {forgot}. you must briing us another shubbery and cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with a herring!
      Witch!
      -"we have found a witch may be burn her?!" "how do you know she is a witch?" "she looks like one!" "yea! reah! burn! (more mumbling)" "bring her forward." "im not a witch, im not a witch!" "ubut you are dressed as one." "they dressed me up like this!" "ah! no! we didn't b..." "and this isn't my nose its a false one!" "well?" "well we did do the nose." "the nose?" "and the hat, but shes a witch!" "yeah! burn her! Witch! burn!" "did you dress her upp like this?" "No! no! No! No! yes, yes, A bit! a bit! just a wart!" "what makes you think she is a witch?" "well she turned me into a newt!" "a newt?" (long pause) "I got better," "Burn her anyways!" Burn! Burn! Burn her anyways! yeah! ohho! burn! Burn her anyways!" "quiet, quiet! there are ways of telling she is a witch." "are there? what are they? tell us! tell us! tell! yeah!" " tell me, what do you do with witches?" "burn them! burn! Burn! burn them! burn!" "and what do you burn apart from witches?" "more witches!" "good! so why do witches burn?" (long pause) "be..." (long pause) "cause their made of wood?" "gooood!" (mumbles of approvement) "so how do we tell if she is made of wood?" "build a bridge out of her!" "ah but can you not also build bridges out fo stone?" "oh yeah, yeah, yeah" "does wood sink in water?" "No! no! it floats! it floats!, throw her intpo the pond! the pond! yeah! the pond!" "what also floats in water?" "bread! uh, apples! verry small rocks! cider! uh, grape gravy! Cherries! churches! Lead! a duck!" "exactly! so logically..." "if... she... weighs the same as a duck....... shes made of wood!" "and therefor?" "A witch! A witch! A witch! Witch! A witch! A witch!"

      well my arms are getting tired so cya!

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    • What I would like to know, is WHY the move was named that, if anyone knows?

      Chamrin

    • Because you run away, much as the Knights of fthe Roundtable did in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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      **What I would like to know, is WHY the move was named that, if anyone knows?

      Chamrin**

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    • ok, cool 🙂 that makes sense.

      Chamrin

    • to beat the alien cruiser the best thing to do, that ive found, is just sit right behind it, and fly over it when its turned to much, its beam cant hit you that way, just fly behind it and unloud with turrets, let your escorts handle the fighters.

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      Originally posted by Shrout1:
      It is about the only way to beat the dreadnought.

      No it's not, you just need a ship that turns quickly and has an afterburner. I've done it in an arada and a helian, you just have to make sure you avoid the heavier fire and let the UE destroyers do the hard work.

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