what's your fav.?

[just give up now]

what's your fav style/method of combat? i.e.dogfight, air to ground, cap. to cap. why?


whats your fav tactics to use? i.e. when i know my ships armor can take it i go for the full on frontal assolt, that is, for cap ships

[Kuokkanen]

With fighter against mines I like to shoot missiles from distance. When I'm out of missiles, I hit FLCS OFF and let inertia take me nearer while dodgin incoming fire with thrusters, then fire guns when in accurate range.

When I have Spectre-class Destroyer, I like to go head to head against enemy starship. When near, I hit brakes and maneuver behind the enemy. Thrusters and full shield are friends with this. Usually I target shield, fusion or engine and hit with X-Lasers and torps.

[Lord QDaan]

I never target anything but weapons and drives when in capship combat. Enemy destroyers tend not to be able to get more than a few laser shots off. If I take a bit of damage, I just hit their drives a few times and hope I can accelerate away faster.
Oh, and I love driving through minefields at 600 m/s with my lasers on auto and just keep hitting 'T'. Lots of destruction in so little time.

[just give up now]

[8D]cool, any one else?

[smaff]

Air to Air - Flail around like a loon, mostly [:D] Though if there are buildings around, fly amongst as close as I dare. You'd probably not be amazed at how many times the AI runs into a building.

Air to ground - keep something (hills/buildings) in the way of SAM and AA lasers for as long as possible. If I'm actually bombing a building its worth shooting up the defenses with lasers, as it *takes for ever* to strafe anything else to death :> Having discovered that the aim point for an airfield ment that the missiles of myself and my wingmen did absolutely nothing, I very nearly managed to blast it to death with laser fire. I think I ran out of fuel in the end, and my attempt to crash on the building to finally destroy it didn't work :>

Space Dogfighting - Pure Babylon5 style, half the time fly just past them, using laterals to both maintian the gap and dodge incoming fire. Try and take out the odd one or two with missiles, especially if you suddenly need to even up the odds a little, or even just to distract it a bit.

Minefield clearance in a fighter - a) Don't, use a cap ship instead. b) Boom and zoom. Fly past at a decent rate of knots, dodging with lateral thrusters until toasty or you're out of range. Try to go past the corners to reduce the number of mines which are shooting at you.

Anti Cap ship - This is quite hard, till you remember your cannons do very little damage. Boom and zoom isn't bad, launching missiles late to get them past the point defense weapons, then using both the laterals and your main thruster to "pull up" and over the target. Aiming your first missiles at the point defense weapons may also be a good idea (must try that :>).

Cap to Cap - Try to manoever round the side of them (or the back I guess), but basically out of range of their main cannon. Take out point defense is another good idea, as it will allow your torps to not get blown up by that. In a group engagement, do not be first, and also see if you can get the AI to spread out its attack, preferably on your big and tough ships, so your light ones can survive longer, but the more spread out the better ;> Naturally you want to be going for the opposite... Concentrate your fire, aiming to reduce their firepower as fast as you can.

(I was amused by the reason that in traditional sea destroyer battles they tend to go one-on-one, is so that the gunners know that any "splashes" are their own misses, and can see where they are and adjust :> This is not an issue in Starshatter, as you tend to hit *far* more often, at least with your equivalent of your main guns).

[just give up now]

in the group engagements i like to concentrate my fire on the weakest ships first,[:D] with the execption of fighters
every ship gone is one less shoing at you...dont shoot at the destoryer and get torn up by the little guys[:-]

[iconoclast107]

Actually I've noticed some capital ships have vulnerable locations. Mainly the unshielded flight decks on carriers, and even more so with the Broadsword class destroyers, they seem to have a weak spot just aft of their ventral fin thingy where you can target the fusion reactor and mess it up good with your xlasers.

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: iconoclast107

Actually I've noticed some capital ships have vulnerable locations.

Just to let new guys around here to know, in version 3.7.6 it is possible destroy DD Spectre with Stormhawk's Delta Cannons by shooting directly to Fusion. Shield go down fast and then it is good time finish it off with antiship missiles.

milo, would it be possible instruct AI with some advanced antiship tactics like I just described?

[Sky_walker]

milo, would it be possible instruct AI with some advanced antiship tactics like I just described?

If i remember good, Milo said that in game will be some think like SS scripting, I think that in help of this you'll can make it.

[Sky_walker]

My favourite style of combat is big starships missions, whole fleet, fighters, and I (player) as capitan of some kind of big ship (battlecruiser, cruiser or destroyer).

ps. What? None ideas for missions?

[Radicalx]

I Like games that keep me up all night and well into the day I just love the engineering side of things. My favorite tactics are to time fighter assaults to just when destoyers close to torp range and I like to use frigs to draw off escorts into my frontline then watch them burn- cue 'Maniacal laughter'