Because Yak wanted another story: “Yet another almost!”
If you want to get to the point and skip the boring bit, go to the end.
Well yesterday thanks to help from ermie, antan and sarrik I finished up all of my remaining Tier 4 pilot missions.
On the first mission there was just myself, ermie and antan, and we were sent out to take down an Imperial Inquisitor. So we all set off from Lok in our lovely little X-Wings and head to the Dathomir sector. We head towards the mission waypoint and the targets jump in. The Inquisitor himself in a TIE Advanced and an escort of about six or so TIE Interceptors. I think... the following trauma seems to have clouded the type and number of ships in all the missions in my head
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Anyway we race off to the WP and bang, bang, bang take out the leader. Mission Success! Round one to the Alliance!
The escort are still buzzing around but we can mop them up before we head on.
Of course I wasn’t expecting the next part of the mission to start right away, which is to rendezvous with a ship a good 6km away. As soon as the mission starts you hear the ominous “beep, beep, beep” of an incoming wave of fighters. Five or six more TIEs to add to the mix of the left over escort, obviously there to stop us from getting to the waypoint.
Okay, so it’s going to be a little bit hairy for a few minutes, time to just get to it and take them out. A minute or so later and I’ve probably taken out two TIE, when “beep, beep, beep” another incoming wave. It must be 3 Vs 14 by now, and when the numbers get that high you know something bad is going to happen.
Naturally, being the one with the mission, the TIE pilots decided it was going to be me who was going to have something bad happen to. I don’t know how many there were behind me, all I saw was a big blurry red blob on the radar, but there must have been at least four or five hammering away at me and my shields were dropping fast. Shortly after my armour went as if it wasn’t there and my components started taking hits. The capacitor took a heavy hit, along with my engine and droid interface.
I swerved and spinned as best I could, but there is only so much you can do when “there are too many of them!”
All the while I wasn’t getting any closer to the waypoint and more waves were just going to keep coming. So I had a quick look at the group list and saw that antan and ermie were still in good shape, so I hit trusty ol’ /IFF to loose agro, dropped a quick message into groupchat to tell them to keep the TIE busy and I flew off to the waypoint as quick as my damaged ship could take me.
I got to the waypoint without a fight, docked with the ship, Mission Successful.
At this distance I was out of range of the others so I could see how they were doing so I decided I better head back to help them clean up what was left of the TIEs; thinking it would probably take a bit too long to make a stop at the station, over 7km away, first to get repairs
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When I got back there were about eight TIEs left and the two green squares dancing around in the middle of them all weren’t in too good a condition. In fact shortly after I got back I think ermie dies, and antan was hobbling around.
Needless to say it took me with my damaged capacitor, nay crippled capacitor, which could only manage four shots at a time before it drained, to finish off all the TIEs. I just don’t know what they are teaching these young guys in flight school these days. :rolleyes:
Anyway, mission success, back to Lok to train. Now 4434.
Next mission and we are back to Dathomir, where we met up with Sarrik.
We were sent off to intercept an Imperial convey. We head off to the waypoint and we are up against ten fighters and a gunboat. Oh how I hate Imperial gunboats. The bloody things have like seven guns, six of them being turrets!
At the start I get too close to the gunboat and get fairly cooked. That rear armour is gone again. I manage to get away and recharge my shields a bit, deciding to try and stay away from the gunboat. We have some NPC B-Wings with us on this one, and they are keeping the gunboat busy for the moment so I go after the fighters.
I think we were doing pretty well, where I think we had it down to about three of four fighters. But then that gunboat sneaked up behind me and I was gone before I knew it. Back at the station asking for repairs. Mission Failure.
Or maybe not. Although we failed that mission I was given another straight away, which was basically “since you failed that, go do this”.
So we regrouped, repaired and off we went.
This was a survival mission. Go to a waypoint and stay within about 2km of it so we can throw wave after wave after wave of four or five nasty ships at you, the nastiest being the TIE Aggressor, which has a rear mounted turret so it can still shoot you while you chase it.
This was real punishment for failing the last mission. I was barely moving at the end. In fact I think my engine was the only thing working, and barely at that. That good old rear armour gave up without a fight again and I was flying without weapons for most of it. I had to try every fancy manoeuvre I could pull off to stop from being hit, and I got hit a lot, as the TIEs all thought it was much more fun to chase after me than the others.
But gotta hand it to them, the others cleaned them all up...eventually
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So we survived, barely (this is when I found out my rear armour was only Mk III and not Mk IV like I thought it was
). Mission Successful. Up to 4444 now. Just one more mission in this Tier to go. Which was pretty straight forward. Intercept and destroy a freighter convoy and it’s escort and then take out a patrol. All went well and I finished off my mission. I’d then be sent off to the Master trainer.
We finished off the night doing ermie’s eeassyy mission
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Today I started on my Master missions, which are basically the same for everyone. Go to Kessel and kill 30 fighters and then after that destroy a Corvette in Kessel.
Kessel is a high level place, everything is Rebel or Imperial Tier 5 ships. I was sent to kill 30 TIEs, which was pretty straight forward and I did it with only getting a little scratch. Most of the time you can go one on one and I can take on any fighter like that, even an Aggressor. In fact I think I took out more Aggressors and any other type (it's just when there are more than one it gets tricky
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So I was on to the last mission. To destroy the Corvette.
There are two Corvettes in Kessel, one Rebel, one Imperial. They both have their designated paths and are escorted by two gunboats and about six fighters. They each only spawn every three hours and take about 45 minutes to cross the sector before they jump out.
If someone destroys a ‘vette but doesn’t take out the escorting gunboats, then the gunboats will stop at the exit point and not leave. If this happens then the corvette won’t spawn again until those gunboats are destroyed.
I jumped into Kessel and made my way to the exit point and sure enough there were the two gunboats dancing around a point in space. I was only really there to get a first hand look at what I’d be up against when fighting the ‘vette, but I wasn’t going to see it if those two drunk gunboats were left there. So I decided I’d have to try take them out. I inched my way over to them making sure I stayed just out of range.
I got close enough to get missile lock but they weren’t shooting at me so I decided to fire off a few shots to see what it would do. I managed to do a bit of damage, nothing worth noticing, but they still weren’t firing. I fired off some more missiles but it wasn’t really doing anything, so I edged a little bit closer, about 50m, to get in blaster range.
I shot them a few times but I got a bit too close and they shot back. They used their magical OboBeGone trick.
I returned repaired and ready to try again. This time I found a good range and managed to take them out. I later found out they only have a weapons range of 520m compared to my 550m.
With the exit now cleared, the Corvette was now free to spawn again, whenever that would be. I headed off to the entry point and waited for it to show up. And waited…. and waited.
While I waited a guy called Ezar showed and asked if he could join me. I wasn’t planning to attacked the ‘vette, just get a look at it, but what the hell might as well give it a go. He was pretty confidant about being able to take out the gunboats but was weary of the fighter escort. It seems there would be a few Aggressors in the pack.
And we waited, and waited.
After waiting a hour and a half, thinking we were at a safe distance, while I wasn’t paying too much attention on the game monitor, and Ezar was afk, a big blurry red blob appeared on the radar, right on top of us!
In that fighter escort there were at least three Aggressors, two Oppressors and at least one Interceptor. I barely managed to get away with an inch of armour left. Ezar got back to realise he was dead.
I stayed back until Ezar was able to return and we regrouped to have a go at tackling the fighters. Well we made little to no headway into them. They just kept pounding away at us. They’d come and attack you, turn back to the corvette and then turn for another attack run. I got down to the armour on a few, but I just couldn’t take out the rear turret on the Aggressors. I was constantly dumping my capacitor energy into my shields.
They just wore me down to the point where I was barely moving when I managed to jump out to Dantooine where I limped to the station to repair. When I returned, Ezar’s friend Kelron was there to help and we managed to make
some progress. We took out at least one Oppressor, maybe two. But before we could get any further, all the ships, Corvette included jumped out of the system.
The Point
So here it is. In order to do this mission you need a big group to be able to take out the fighter escort quickly.
So the question is, if you are willing, when would you be available to do this mission? During the week, weekend? The time would have to be flexible depending on the Imperial Corvette spawn timer (within a three hour range).
I said I’d let Ezar and Kelron know when we’d do it so they could come along if they still needed it. I was also thinking of perhaps calling in some other help.
So, anyone interested?
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