dealing with the skipper

[Spien]

You have to press a button to autopilot in the Playstation version.

Then just do what was said, line up with the white cross that is your Nav point and fly ahead without using Autopilot, leaving the ships you're escorting behind. It takes ages to get there though. It's probably simpler to just shoot down the missle but at least this method is worry free.

 

[Ijuin]

Actually, the T-bolt can do it, you just don't have that large a margin of error (IIRC, skipper goes 750 kps; T-bolt ABs at 1000 kps).

For the Ariel situation, however, unless you use the manual fly-ahead method, do not take the Longbow. Even on full burner it can't catch the Skipper, ever. (Orsini 4 doesn't give the option of the Longbow, unlike Ariel 3.)

I never said that the T-bolt was incapable of catching the Skipper--I merely said that it would be more difficult the less speed and agility you have.