On 2012-01-02 00:23, Defiance{CM7} wrote:
**Advanced K’luth tracking**

Ever seen star trek nemisis? Know when Picard said do a lateral sweep of beams at zero elevation. At the first sign of hull contact fire all we have? (ok so im not a trek buff, and don’t remember exact lines)
Point is he was using lasers to find cloaked ship in order to fire all weapons onto it. We here in DS can do the same thing.

This tactic, obviously, only works when your enemy is within beam range.

Laser Lateral Sweep;

*hold down control key and click a point in space outside your ship within laser range.

*Let go of control key

* Pick one laser to fire by clicking on it (I honestly cant remember if its right or left click these days)

*Hover your mouse pointer over the yellow spot your firing at and push and hold the Control key

*Now sweep your mouse from side to side.

*you will see a definite Hit if the laser impacts another ship

*if you see this, release control key

*Alpha (spacebar) that spot

On 2012-01-03 10:12, Talien wrote:
I don't get that one.

On 2012-01-03 15:05, Fattierob wrote:
Why the hate for interdictors? Because they throw all your standard tactics out the window?

On 2012-01-03 23:16, Fatal Perihelion wrote:

Yes.. Dictors throw all our standard tactics out the window.
They throw any battle out of the window.
Nothing is more frightning then a dico, could call them op, super effective.
And there is no tactic against that dico beside..another dico?
Vs Kluth even that would barely help..

Tracking people down is nice, but trapping them in dictors is like saying
"bye bye go back sit at your planets, we dont want no pew pew at all".

On 2012-01-04 01:57, Sardaukar wrote:

If you think you're going to die because you can't jump, then at least die productively. Make a beeline for the interdictor.

On 2012-01-04 07:05, Defiance{CM7} wrote:
can someone clean this thread up please?


And thanks Sard. I was starting to think the entire DS playerbase had lost its mind.

It would take no less than three SUPER AWSOME AMAZING dread pilots to kill one decent destroyer pilot.


[ This Message was edited by: Defiance{CM7} on 2012-01-04 07:12 ]

On 2012-01-03 12:54, Brutality wrote:

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On 2012-01-03 11:09, nonexistent wrote: If you use anything smaller than a Dreadnought without a Support Station(ICC) you will get ganked by the K'luth. All I have to say. (does not include the missile dread, it's a death trap)

I wouldn't fly an SS with a single dread as an escort, thats just an invite to be smashed You can fly Dreads without stat support, but you have to be aware and very carefull of when and where you jump. but yea I agree don't use the MD at this point, especially against luth. That's even worse than trying to kill them with an SS imo. my advice to VA's is to stick to cruisers, you can actually survive this way.

On 2012-01-04 01:57, Sardaukar wrote:
Interdictors are believed to be hard to kill because, it seems, people are bad. All this hogwash about how great large ships are with good pilots in them- that's great, but large ships are still slower to jump and slower in combat. No amount of skill will let your dreadnaught outrun my destroyer, sorry.

See an interdictor? Why in the low hells are you trying to run away from it, are you stupid? If you think you're going to die because you can't jump, then at least die productively. Make a beeline for the interdictor. If you're in a proper ship- you know, a destroyer or cruiser- you can keep up with him if you hold fire until you're in range. Yeah, you'll get shot, you'll probably explode too. You'll also drive the interdictor back, wound and or kill it, and give the slower ships in your group a chance to escape... though I'd prefer they followed you and shot at the aft armor of the enemies doubtlessly trying to tackle you.

[ This Message was edited by: Sardaukar on 2012-01-04 01:58 ]