Examples of some of my tactics...
Heya, fellas.
The topic of specific fighting tactics has been brought up, so I figured I'd chime in again (been awhile since I've posted anyway):
In WC1 & 2, my most impressive actual piloting tactic was just rolling through asteroid fields to dodge the asteroids (with WC2 especially, I found that more often then not, I'd get whacked by a rogue asteroid if I didn't change my roll angle a few times passing through an asteroid field...or maybe that's just my own paranoia - dunno)...
Tactics for me didn't really come into play on a grander scale until WC3. And for this, I'll give you 2 examples - fighting Vaktoth heavy fighters (which they seemed to like throwing at me frequently) and cat Corvettes. Both of these buggers were armed to the hilt with some serious firepower from where I was sitting...and in case anyone missed it in an earlier post, I've never really been one for going crazy by firing missiles...so gun fights with these two things were always a little trying on my patience.
To deal with the Vaktoth, I found out that if I went head to head with them and rolled so I was at a 90 degree angle to them as we closed in, they could only pelt away at me with their center gun, but my rate of closure and orientation was such that their outer wing mounts couldn't touch me. I guess the boxy profile of many of the WC3 era Confed birds lended themselves well to more precisely attacking a certain area, though, because I could still nail the Vaktoth with full guns myself.
As for the Corvette, I was chewed up by far too many of those during my experience with WC3. Then I figured out that if I changed my power settings to give a little extra to my shield recharge rate and swung around the back, there was this sweet spot where only the Corvette's main gun (not sure what it was, but it fired a bigger shot of a different color) could try peppering the area it thought I was flying in. So I'd have to close towards this thing, ducking and weaving its fire as well as any of the other turrets if I managed to leave that sweet spot. Then when I was close enough, I did strafing runs on that main gun until I knocked it out. Once it was finally destroyed, it was simply a matter of finding that sweet spot again where I could just pelt away at the Corvette without facing any return fire until kablewy.
I'll give this whole discussion a bit more thought and see if I can come up with any additional tactics I've used in any games. In the meantime, thanks for listening to "FireFalcon's Ballsy Tactics of Sheer Stupidity."
Your fellow community member (and still working ever so slowly on his continuation of the storyline following the events of Prophecy),
FireFalcon ~};^