How do you put up with bombers?!

The Devastator is so bad-@$$ because you have the Big Gun ,which if you have perfect accuracy (which I have :D ), it nais em every time.
 
Man, my fav fighter was the Thunderbolt. It was a light bomber with a great gun loadout and a torpedo in case you came across something unpleasent. It's missile hardpoints sucked, but it didn't matter with all those guns!
 
While I loved the Thunderbolt a great deal, I always thought its guns ran out of juice too quickly. It's not like any more was absolutely necessary, but I like big, safe margins.
 
The Thunderbolt is great, a big fucking killing machine in my hands..one barrage and BOOM! Kitty litter.
The Torp was great to kick some Corvette or Light Destroyer ass, or help to take a cruiser.
Plus the shark painting is great
 
Originally posted by Ghost
The Thunderbolt is great, a big fucking killing machine in my hands..one barrage and BOOM! Kitty litter.
The Torp was great to kick some Corvette or Light Destroyer ass, or help to take a cruiser.
Plus the shark painting is great
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The Thunderbolt rocks. It's Blair personal fighter for WC3.

The shark paiting on the Arrow was also very cool.
 
Wing Commander Propercy

Alright my mission is, Hrissith 6 : Painting the Target:
I get a Devastator and I'm supposed to launch the disk. Problem is by the time I reach halfway to the Triton, my screen goes flashing red and.........BOOOOOM! I blow up.

I can't seem to win without the cheat. Am I supposed to wait untill all the enemy fighters are detroyed?!

Please help.......cause I'm.......so hosed!:(
 
Re: Wing Commander Propercy

Originally posted by Karthik@KANE
Alright my mission is, Hrissith 6 : Painting the Target:
I get a Devastator and I'm supposed to launch the disk. Problem is by the time I reach halfway to the Triton, my screen goes flashing red and.........BOOOOOM! I blow up.

I can't seem to win without the cheat. Am I supposed to wait untill all the enemy fighters are detroyed?!

Please help.......cause I'm.......so hosed!:(
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After auto'ing to where the bug fleet is, hang back and let the midway and the other confed pilots cover you, also take out any fighters that get close (the plasma and your missile loadout should be just fine for this). As soon as most of the fighters are gone, target the transport's bridge and let fly with the targeting disk.

Don't charge straight in after autopiloting as you'll lose the protection of the midway and be easy pickings for the bugs.
 
If you want, you can have a whole heap of fun by taking out the enemy ships, raising your kill score, killing the capships (bar the transport) and then go, what's the need for the plasma gun? Actually, then you launch the missile and then be brought back to Wc3 memories.
 
That mission has no time limit, and very few fighters, so it's easy to clear them out - the capships too, if you like - and then fire the Targeting Disk.
 
One tactic might be to hide behind the guns of your capship while your wingmen and the midway clear a path.
 
In WCP, to survive in a bomber, USE YOUR ESCORT! There's a reason that you are assigned a fighter escort, after all. I find that the hardest bomber to survive in is the WC3 Longbow. Its Neutron guns don't have enough range to kill an enemy fighter before it gets close, and it turns too slowly to chase a Darket when it gets close to you. Instead, you need to use your missiles, and also order your wingman to "help you out here" whenever an enemy gets on your tail.

Personally, however, I avoid using the Longbow and just take the Thunderbolt instead. Since capships have a blind spot over their engines, the easy way to kill them is to afterburn in from behind and match speed, sitting right behind their engines and pounding away with full guns. This works with everything except the Corvette.
 
I think sitting behind the engines would work in Wc3 on any capship except the corvette and the cruiser. It didn't help that the cruiser had those AMG either...
 
Originally posted by Ijuin
In WCP, to survive in a bomber, USE YOUR ESCORT! There's a reason that you are assigned a fighter escort, after all.
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Amen to that one. Flying bombers in WC:P is a pain-in-the-butt. Their turning and acceleration really lack.
 
Originally posted by StarLight
I think sitting behind the engines would work in Wc3 on any capship except the corvette and the cruiser. It didn't help that the cruiser had those AMG either...
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it works on the cruiser, you just had to get right up close to it and at the the very center of it engines
 
Yeh...I figure that theoretically, but getting right up there can be a whole lot harder...I think it was that since the sides of the cruiser slope down to the engine - that's why it was hard to avoid the turrets...not to mention there was no hull. On the subject of hulls, ever manage to get into the Destroyer one? That was tricky - and stupid if the Destroyer was moving.
 
I always make sure to hang back until the fightes come to me then I call my wing men I wait til about 80% of the fighters are splashed then I move in and take the turrets and other deffenses myself you might be scroched or even get some light damage but if your wing cleared out all the enemy fighters than you wil have enough time to just doddle and let your sheilds recharge alot boring I know but it always works for me and just imagine if that were real the enemy seeing you slowly eat away their defenses and then go in for the kill I think they'd die of fright before your payload did the job
 
The sad thing is the best bomber in any WC game is a Kilrahti one. The Paktahn was a mean bomber/fighter. Heavy gun loadout, enough missiles to do the trick and a deadly accurate dual mass driver turret . . . all in a small profile? Even though its shields and armor are inferior to the Longbow, you could give me that mean machine over any bomber pre-WCP. And on a side note I thought the Shrike was ok in Prophecy, the charging mass drivers gave you about the same punch as the plasma cannon and I thought the black Shrike was an improvement (well anything that is given dust cannons makes it an improvement).

A quick question. Are the Viper cannons in UE a BW version of the Dust Cannon?

C-ya
 
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