What is the best battle u fought, in terms of 1)fun and 2)odds against you.
My best battle was me in a maxed out clapper beating a kestral! (took 15 mins tho)
Tycho Maudd
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I had just destroyed the Confederation Cruiser "U.S.S. Hannibal," and had returned to the Rebel capital of Pashlife. There, I was paid for my devotion to the Rebellion, and I was granted access to the Rebel Destroyer. Previously, I had been flying a new Rebel vessel, the "Sentenial." The Sentenial was like an extrememly heavy fighter / light warship, and I had even seen them take out Confederation Frigates with there emense firepower. The Sentenial were armed with six mass drivers, one proton turret, and a generous supply of missiles and torpedoes. I now upgraded to the Rebel destroyer, and outfitted it for my next mission, which wasn't going to be easy. I bought plenty of upgrades, which gave my "Triton Corsair" a speed of 450 a.u, an excellent turning rate and acceleration that constantly saved me from the waves of Confederation missiles that often came my way. I fitted the "Triton Corsair" with three proton turrets, extra fuel tanks and ramscoops, shield capacitators and generators, and two torpedoes launchers, which had a somewhat rediculous supply of one hundred torpedoes. Torpedoes were my favorite weapon, and were crucial in the destruction of capital Confederation vessels. I was now ready for my next mission: Destroy the "Battlegroup Four" flagship, a Confederation Battleship. The Confederation Battleship is about two / three times the length of a Cruiser; It carries fourteen neutron turrets, which will tear even a Rebel Cruiser to pieces in a small matter of time. In addition, the Battleship carried about twenty "flea" class interceptors, which were extremely fast, and armed with twin proton cannons. In numbers, these vessels were dangerous. When I arrived in the system where I was to destroy the "Battlegroup Four," I was greeted by the ship's flea interceptors, and three Confederation Light Destroyers, which were the equivelent of the Rebel's "Sentenial." (The Light Destroyers also carried three flea interceptors.) So now, I have 29 Flea Interceptors chasing my ship as I attempted to escape their combined proton firepower. Had it not been for my excellent speed, the fleas would have instantly destroyed me. However, using menuvers such as swift circling runs, I was able to pick them off one by one. I had destroyed about ten of them while receiving light damage, so I decided to give them a rough firefight. I slowed my ship down to settle this chase, and fleas began to fly off in all directions, flaming and exploding. I was beginning to take proton fire, but there weren't enough fleas to finish off my reliable Rebel Destroyer. For about ten minutes, I fought the fleas, and by the time I had finished the last one, I was on my armor. Fortunately, I had fitted "Durasteel" and "Armaplast" to my ship, so my armor offered tough resistance. I was relieved I had finished the fleas, so I head for the Light Destroyers. The Light Destroyers looks somewhat like a Frigate, only smaller, with clipped wings, and stabilizers attached to the wings and hull. The Light Detsroyers were really cool ships: I hated to blow them up...BUT, they were Confederation, so I had no problem with doing so. The Light Destroyers were armed with twin proton turrets, so primary weapons engagements with them weren't too dangerous. By the time I reached them, my shields were almost fully recharged from the long journey towards the capital vessels. By the time I actually saw the Light Destroyers on my radar, I had fired off ten torpedoes, which finished off one of them. I then made a charge right toward the duo, spraying them with proton fire. Their shields began to dip, in which one of the Light Destroyers exploded before he hardly began firing. The other Light Destroyer came right toward me, and we battled it out. We made three passes on each other, with my shields depleted to half-normal status by the time he was destroyed. Now, I could finally complete the actual meaning of the mission: Destroy "Battlegroup Four." When I saw the ship on my radar, I wasn't too excited, but I was extremely excited and happy I had such a large supply of torpedoes. Once on my radar, I began firing off torpedoes as fast as my twin launchers would allow, keeping an eye on the flagship's shields. I made circles around the monster, staying out of range of the extremely dangerous red neutron turrets. I kept firing my torpedoes, in which I was surprised at the Battleship's shield recharge rate and toughness. Each torpedo normally reduced the shields by one percent: far less then I wanted. By the time I had given the Battleship all of my 90 torpedoes, his shields were at 2%. I now had to finish off the flagship with my proton turrets, and fast. I made a "kamikaze" assault at the ship's back to avoid heavy rockets, and gave him all I had. My shields were rapidly falling, and I held out as long as I could. Atlast, I was on my armor, which was also falling very fast, so I quickly headed out of range of the Battleship's turreted death. My armor began to recharge, and I was about to give up hope of destroying the ship. Here he was, about five times the length of my destroyer, waited to kill me. I was wandering wether or not to leave the system, when my prayers were aswered. A Rebel Cruiser had enetered the system... Having my hope restored, I joined up asside the Cruiser and made the approach toward the Battleship. My shields were now on low / medium status, and the mantas made their assault. The Mantas, as expected were, quickly torn to shreds by neutron fire, so me and the Cruiser went in to finish the Confederation menace. We began to fire proton bolts rapidly, while fortunately the Cruiser took the bulk of the neutron fire (which I couldn't afford to take). For about 10 seconds, be fired away in a desperate attempt to finish off the thick layer of Tritanium armor. Finally, I let out a shout of joy as I saw the ship's status dip from "Shield's Down" to "Disabled." It took about five seconds to actually destroy the Battleship, even with seven proton turrets firing. I watched as the Battleship exploded, which took about 15 seonds...The ship drifted, began giving off small explosians all around the ship, before it actually blew. So large was the explosian that the Rebel Cruiser's shield status dropped from 28% to armor. My shields went to half-armor also, but aleast the Rebel's worse enemy had been destroyed: "Battlegroup Four." The Battle had been a fun and extremely tense one, but I didn't really feel like going out and seeking another Confederation Battleship anytime soon.
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Anyway, there is one mission were you have to destroy 3 Confederate Carriers. The Carriers are these huge things that look like 2 Confed Cruisers glued together. They had a Gunboat Bay, 10 proton turrets, and a particle beam. For an escort, the mission gave me 5 Rebel Destroyers.
I hyperspace into the system in my Rebel Crusier. I launch my Mantas upon one of the carriers. The Mantas take it down to 75% before being killed. My Rebel Destroyer escorts take on a second one, and they destroy it. But soon, all of the Destroyers get a whiff of the Carrier's Torpedos, Particle Beams, and Gunboats. I use my torps to take the third Confed Carrier down to 50%, but then I run out.
So there I am, alone with only 4 proton turrets against 2 ships with 10 proton turrets, 100 torps, a particle beam, and 4 gunboats (and that's each). So I fly by one of the carriers, fire all my protons, and run away. This takes them down 10% each time. Unfortunately, it takes me down 100% each time, and I have to wait for my shields to regenerate before I can make another pass at them. But, after 30 minutes and numerous close calls were my armor went down to 2-3%, I killed them all.
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In EV, I'd have to say it was the final Artemis mission - when I was in a corvette. I had my ultimate combat rating, but due to a mix up in controls (my prefs had been reset when I reinstalled system 7.5.1) I got into a battle with a fed battle fleet thing (cruiser and a couple of frigates) in my kestrel, and quickly lost (i didn't know what afterburner was). So I took the artemis missions in my corvette, and then jumped into the system on the final mission, and.... jesus H. christ, how many kestrels is that? Still, I won - thank god I'd invested in 2 torpedo launchers and many many torpedoes. But it was on my performa 630 - with all those ships on screen, I had about 3fps update... not very nice. But that is one of my greatest battle. Of course, accidentally firing my sole laser cannon in my shuttlecraft into a rebel cruiser by accidentally leaning on the fire primary weapon button comes close... I lost that one, incidentally.
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I would have to say that the best battle I ever fought was against a fleet of pirates that I ran into in an unhinhabited system. I was in my 'vette, and I nailed 2-3 Corvettes and a couple of Argosies. Fast, too.
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Out of interest, everyone says how easy the alien cuiser is to kill, but I can't kill the damn thing. Due to some bug, the rebel cruisers stopped appearing after I'd saved on sauron before starting my search, which really doesn't help. I heard it was easy to defeat if you used the tractor beam, but my guns aren't powerful enough to take down it's shields (I have a Kestrel with the full 5 proton cannons).
Anyone know where I'm going wrong?
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Originally posted by Tarquin:
**Out of interest, everyone says how easy the alien cuiser is to kill, but I can't kill the damn thing. Due to some bug, the rebel cruisers stopped appearing after I'd saved on sauron before starting my search, which really doesn't help. I heard it was easy to defeat if you used the tractor beam, but my guns aren't powerful enough to take down it's shields (I have a Kestrel with the full 5 proton cannons).
Anyone know where I'm going wrong?
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Are you using the tractor beam? If so, it should be easy, but it will take a while.
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drop all other weapons but proton turrets and cannons. Put 2 torp launchers in and as many trops as you can. put the Engine , thrust, RCS enchancments on. get as many escorts as you can. jump in and launch all torps at the cruiser. send your fighters against the cruiser as well. INGORE THE FIGHTERS, THEY ARE ALMOST IMPOSSBIL TO KILL AND DON"T DO MUCH DAMAGE. When your out of Torps use your tractor beam at short range with your turrets and cannons. If you don't have the tractor beam sell the cannons for more torps.
Tycho Maudd
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I say what occurs to me to say when I think I hear someone say something, more i cannot say.
Most really good battles are fought in ships like the Corvette... it's before you have enought money for bigger ships.
For my money, the TAG (Artemis missions) were the toughest... Just from the sheer number of ships to off.
And yet my most memorable fight was after I completed the Alien missions - and had bought a Rebel Destroyer to test drive. I upgraded it to my usual tricked-out standards - and was attacked by an Alien Fighter.
I won.
No money, but it was one of my greatest fights!
ElG7
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Originally posted by Tarquin:
**Out of interest, everyone says how easy the alien cuiser is to kill, but I can't kill the damn thing. Due to some bug, the rebel cruisers stopped appearing after I'd saved on sauron before starting my search, which really doesn't help. I heard it was easy to defeat if you used the tractor beam, but my guns aren't powerful enough to take down it's shields (I have a Kestrel with the full 5 proton cannons).
Anyone know where I'm going wrong?
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hey i had a kestrel and no tractor beam when i fought the alien. what you do is you get the max guns including the cannos and a few shield enhancements(optional) and what works the best is a manouverability upgrade and stay on top of the alien making sure you stay away from the front of it. (i did that with only using guns and i still had 80% shield left and it only took about a minute)try it and if it doesnt work almost nothing will(and you can tell your lightings to fight it too(i had them take on a fighter)
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Lightnings are great for anything at all, including attacking aliens.
I made a super ship that cost 10 million credits and two Lightnings destroyed it,
so never feel that you must keep your Lightnings safe.
PS: The ship was a fighter with 60 shields, whereas the Lightning has 25. It uses a
powerful long range beam weapon that doubles up as a tractor beam - meanly it can
drag Confed Cruisers around without getting hit! However, Lightnings are able to
destroy it easily.
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