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- X-WING TIPS
-
- Tips for destroying capital ships in Lucasart's Space Combat game X-WING
-
- Written and flown by:
- Bobby "Cougar" Osborne
- Silver Star Squadron Leader
- 71044,3020
-
- Ok, the first thing you'll notice unzipping is a film clip. This is taken from
- the B-Wing historical mission to destroy the Shrike (obviously, you must have
- B-Wing to see it. If you don't, buy it! It's great!). Find it under
- FRIGATE.CLP and copy it to your X-WING directory. First thing I'll do is
- describe the film: (You should print this out so you can read and watch at the
- same time)
-
- Whenever you attack a capital ship, you should first pickoff the fighters,
- mines, or other defenses first. In the case of the Shrike, I had escort (and
- they did a very good job) so I ignored the TIEs. Make sure you set Laser (F9
- twice) and Shield (F10 twice) recharge rates to full, set torps to dual-fire
- (select torpeodos with W then hit X), and order wingmen to attack your target
- (select target and hit SHIFT-A). Then wait for your torpedos to lock and fire
- them ALL, don't worry about conserving them. If you're more than 2.00
- distance away from your target, transfer all laser power to shields
- (Shirt-F10). Keep doing this until you hit 2.00, or until shields are full.
- At about 1.50, you're in laser range. Fire, fire, fire! Keep this up until
- your shields get low, but not to the point of collapsing. Then go out to 2.00
- and repeat. When you manage to get the shields down, switch to Ion Cannons.
- Disable it. This shouldn't take many shots, I've disabled frigates with only
- one ion blast. This will leave it vulnerable. Tell your wingman to ignore
- your target (Shift-I) and switch to lasers (singal fire). Reduce speed and
- keep shooting! After this, I switch to FULL lasers and take out anything
- that's left. Note that these tactics above are for frigates, other capital
- ships have different strategies, shown below:
-
- Capital Ship Secrets:
-
- Star Destroyers:
- | |-Shield Generators
- -----------------
- \ / -Command Center
- -----------
- |||
- -------------------------
- \ /
- \ / -Wedged Section
- \ /
- ------------
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- Say this is the frontal view of a STD. (Yes, I know it's crude. How good can
- ASCII art get?) Above the wedge, you'll see the command center. On top of
- that are the shield generators. Firing 3 torps at each one will take down the
- STDs shield. Disable it and take it out. See? Easy!
-
- Corvettes:
- I hate to say it, but these ships are REALLY cheap. Just fire 6 torps at it
- and BOOM!!!
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- Write me for any other help you want, my address is above.
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