Ship Builds & Load Outs Ground assault ship
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Vindicator Jones had a video on youtube about this, you should check it out.
dayrth
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I've tried three.
1. Viper III - Good for precision hits. Takes a bit of a beating well. Fast and maneuverable enough to stay out of real trouble. No room for anything but missiles and ammo limited.
2. DBX - Tried this for the extra weapon space. Not as good or as durable as the Viper.
3. Python - One large fixed beam, missiles on everything else. Not as nimble as the smaller ships, but plenty enough speed to get out of trouble when needed. Can take loads of punishment. Stable enough for precision bombing (even used the beam to take out skimmers when nothing was shooting at me). enough firepower to carpet bomb if needed (very satisfying
). Expensive for a ground assault ship though and when fitted out like that, no good at all for ship to ship combat. If the base if guarded by ships you will have to run away or bring a friend.
1. Viper III - Good for precision hits. Takes a bit of a beating well. Fast and maneuverable enough to stay out of real trouble. No room for anything but missiles and ammo limited.
2. DBX - Tried this for the extra weapon space. Not as good or as durable as the Viper.
3. Python - One large fixed beam, missiles on everything else. Not as nimble as the smaller ships, but plenty enough speed to get out of trouble when needed. Can take loads of punishment. Stable enough for precision bombing (even used the beam to take out skimmers when nothing was shooting at me). enough firepower to carpet bomb if needed (very satisfying
). Expensive for a ground assault ship though and when fitted out like that, no good at all for ship to ship combat. If the base if guarded by ships you will have to run away or bring a friend.
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dayrth
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Some bases do but they have a delayed reaction time. Get in close and launch and you can beat them. Of course, getting in close means taking some fire. If you have four (or more) launchers, you can run in at full speed, launch a spread of missiles (not needing to be too accurate) and boost out again. Careful not to face plant into the ground or hit the base though.
I'm hoping to use my Cobra MkIV for this role.
The only one I've tried was a dismal failure; it was a Goliath mission but the base defences opened up before I could find it, so I high-tailed it out before the shields went down.
Where are all the skimmer missions these days, though, I can't find any.
The only one I've tried was a dismal failure; it was a Goliath mission but the base defences opened up before I could find it, so I high-tailed it out before the shields went down.
Where are all the skimmer missions these days, though, I can't find any.
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I've used this before and it obliterated everything I took it up against.
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/cob....EweloBhBGA2EoFMCGBzANokMK6A=&bn=Assault ship
Well my new ground assault ship is the beluga.
The reason why is cause now the only bases I am "assaulting" are the medium security ones that allow you to drive about their place and scan their data points without a care
Cause really all I needed was data from medium security bases and I had thought you'd need to have a heavily armed ship to assault them, but no some of them just let you drive in and won't even look at you funny as you scan their data links.
But I am keeping the idea open cause I still want to one day assault one of these heavily defended medium security bases cause before my missiles got shot down I was actually having fun bombarding the base in my gunship.
Edit: what do you people think? missiles with ammo capacity increase or rapid fire?
The reason why is cause now the only bases I am "assaulting" are the medium security ones that allow you to drive about their place and scan their data points without a care
Cause really all I needed was data from medium security bases and I had thought you'd need to have a heavily armed ship to assault them, but no some of them just let you drive in and won't even look at you funny as you scan their data links.
But I am keeping the idea open cause I still want to one day assault one of these heavily defended medium security bases cause before my missiles got shot down I was actually having fun bombarding the base in my gunship.
Edit: what do you people think? missiles with ammo capacity increase or rapid fire?
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Federal Assault Ship is what I use equipped with rapid fire dumbfire missiles, gimballed beam laser and an advanced plasma accelerator. Actually I need to do a proper testing of this setup since I get away with just driving the SRV and scan data points. Not much use blowing up surface installation stuff from the ship unless its a kill generator mission and I'm feeling lazy.
I used a Viper MKIV. Medium hardpoints used for Dumbfire Missile Racks, small hardpoints fixed cannons. I used it un-engineered and fell in love with how much this little ship can tank. Today it is fully engineered for PvP and one of my absolute favourite ships!