dealing with the skipper

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d3r3k

Spaceman
i started playing wc3 today. ive gotten all the way to the last mission in the orsini system. ive gotta little problem.

im having a lot of trouble with finding and destroying the skipper missile. any tips?
 
It's a yellow dot on your radar. Hit T to target it then AB in its general direction it will cloak again but when it uncloaks repeat process until you destroy it...
 
There is another option, if you think just a bit outside the mission "box". Instead of hitting auto-pilot to Nav 2, fly there manually, well ahead of the transport your escorting. That will give you plenty of time to shoot down the corvette that launches the offending missile.

The above also applies to Ariel 3, only the ship you're escorting is the Victory itself, so letting the escorted ship get potted is not an option. (Losing the transport in Orsini is a mission failure, but doesn't end the game, or even change which way you go on the mission path, since at that point there's no branching.)
 
thanks for the tips guys.

oddly enough, i tried the mission again. i found it and burned towards it, but then it cloaked and never uncloaked again. im guessing its either a bug or it got caught in some crossfire from my wingman and the kilrathi ships.
 
Maybe you accidentally put it on 'rookie' and now there is no skipper. That's the easiest way to make that thing go away.
 
There is another option, if you think just a bit outside the mission "box". Instead of hitting auto-pilot to Nav 2, fly there manually, well ahead of the transport your escorting. That will give you plenty of time to shoot down the corvette that launches the offending missile.
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Ahh, excellent idea, I wish I would've thought of that at the time. Skipper missles used to give me so much trouble. I remember blowing one up after it cloaked and only a few precious moments before it would've struck the Victory, that was one big sigh of relief.
 
(Losing the transport in Orsini is a mission failure, but doesn't end the game, or even change which way you go on the mission path, since at that point there's no branching.)
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I think it actually does... if you lose the transport, you go to 'losing' Tamayo, which has more enemies (an extra nav point worth of Kilrathi transports) during the 'Excalibur joyride' mission.
 
The Skipper missile goes through three cycles of cloak-uncloak between when it is launched and when it strikes its target. It will cloak for three seconds, then become visible for three seconds, then cloak again. I strongly recommend that you not be flying the Thunderbolt for this mission--you need speed and agility to kill the Skipper.
 
After som years of playing WC3, skippers are really easy to kill.

I just didn't know it was actually possible to fly between navpoints manually in wc3, like I did in 1 and 2. It must be a looooong ride.
 
Red said:
I played it on rookie before and believe me, there are skippers in those two missions.
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For real? I was certain that on Rookie I remember the briefing about the skipper and then when I got out there, I never seemed to have to deal with it. Guess it's time to play that mission again.
 
Death said:
There is another option, if you think just a bit outside the mission "box". Instead of hitting auto-pilot to Nav 2, fly there manually, well ahead of the transport your escorting. That will give you plenty of time to shoot down the corvette that launches the offending missile.
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Is that possible on the playstation version? If so, how exactly do you do it?
 
I never played the playstation version but if it works like the GBA version of Prophecy or the Dreamcast version of Starlancer where you autopilot automatically without pressing a button then it wouldn't work.

For real? I was certain that on Rookie I remember the briefing about the skipper and then when I got out there, I never seemed to have to deal with it. Guess it's time to play that mission again.
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Killed by other fighters accidentally in the crossfire perhaps?
 
Bandit LOAF said:
I think it actually does... if you lose the transport, you go to 'losing' Tamayo, which has more enemies (an extra nav point worth of Kilrathi transports) during the 'Excalibur joyride' mission.
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If that's the case, then the CIC's WC3 guide needs editing. I couldn't find my WC3 official guide, so the online mission guide is all I had to work with.

Ijuin said:
I strongly recommend that you not be flying the Thunderbolt for this mission--you need speed and agility to kill the Skipper.
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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.)
 
Spien said:
I never played the playstation version but if it works like the GBA version of Prophecy or the Dreamcast version of Starlancer where you autopilot automatically without pressing a button then it wouldn't work.
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You have to press a button to autopilot in the Playstation version.
 
On an interesting note, in the Ariel mission, you can land and end the mission before encountering the skipper. If you do, you'll get an easter egg mission where you get to go up agaisnt a kilrathi asteroid depot.
 
jeez, i got to ariel three today. damn, these missiles are bitch. they must be carrying some serious payload if it can kill a carrier in one hit.

how exactly can you land before you encounter the skipper? i thought you couldnt land without clearance.
 
CSMs (including the skipper) do 60,000 damage. More than enough to kill a light carrier.

As for landing, request clearance after finishing the hostiles at Nav 1, then fly in for a manual landing (come in at 100kps or less), don't hit autopilot to land you. You go to the Delius mission, which is mostly in asteroids.
 
i just checked the game guide, this method skips numerous systems. is this a easter egg mission like overmortal describes in the delius system, or do i skip all the way to the actual delius system?
 
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