Ships DBX Helicopter Gunship.

F4fred

F4fred
I am looking for a ship for those “covert” data recovery missions, which often turn into a full blown base assault. Last one I did I just scraped through having lost the first SRV, but knocked out enough that I could complete with the second one. So to make it easier was wondering about a ship to soften up the base first. Thinking about a DBX, strap some missiles to it, put a Gatling gun under the nose, play Ride of the Valkyries on the stereo and swoop down on the base with all guns blazing. I love the smell of napalm in the mornings. Although presumably you won’t smell anything in a vacuum! :)
Do you think it would work and if so is the DBX a viable ship? It certainly looks the part.
 

Chaparral

Chaparral
The skimmers redeploy after a bit. Dumbfire missiles on the power generator would shut things down for a while. Back when farming Modified Embedded Firmware from bases was a thing, careful routing and plinking away from the turret in your srv was the most efficient. Using the dbx will probably get you more fines but be more fun.
 

Batterby76

Batterby76
Iv been doin a few of these covert data missions lately and I found a stealth cobra3 build works very well, but I do like the idea of a gunship style dbx, I'd go for the multi cannon but also long range penetrator rails 😁👍
 

F4fred

F4fred
Chaparral said:
The skimmers redeploy after a bit. Dumbfire missiles on the power generator would shut things down for a while. Back when farming Modified Embedded Firmware from bases was a thing, careful routing and plinking away from the turret in your srv was the most efficient. Using the dbx will probably get you more fines but be more fun.
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Skimmers I can handle, but when you are hit by Skimmers and fire from several turrets at once it gets very tough. So the plan was to take out turrets and any skimmers in the way. Land, deploy SRV, race in and scan and get out quick.
 

Chaparral

Chaparral
F4fred said:
Skimmers I can handle, but when you are hit by Skimmers and fire from several turrets at once it gets very tough. So the plan was to take out turrets and any skimmers in the way. Land, deploy SRV, race in and scan and get out quick.
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See what wiping the power generator does to the turrets.
 

Madrax573

Madrax573
F4fred said:
Skimmers I can handle, but when you are hit by Skimmers and fire from several turrets at once it gets very tough. So the plan was to take out turrets and any skimmers in the way. Land, deploy SRV, race in and scan and get out quick.
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Just watch out for an AA guns there. they will make short work of a DBX. Other than that it will be able to clear the other stuff pretty easily. Done it many times myself.
 

Batterby76

Batterby76
Personally I'd swap the guardian module for sheild cell banks as your prismatics will take ages to regenerate and with the rail guns I'd use a heatsink especially if your firing in tandem, but the missiles will make it more like an AH64 Apache even more so if they pack hounds.
 

F4fred

F4fred
Batterby76 said:
Personally I'd swap the guardian module for sheild cell banks as your prismatics will take ages to regenerate and with the rail guns I'd use a heatsink especially if your firing in tandem, but the missiles will make it more like an AH64 Apache even more so if they pack hounds.
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Thanks for the advice. The reason I went Guardian booster was to bump up overall shield hit points. Hoping that the shields would last for what I need to do. Boosted the armour too to give some wiggle room to escape if shields drop. Do you think I will need to stay on target long enough to need shield recharges?
i would need to unlock Pack Hounds. It is on my list.
 

Batterby76

Batterby76
Instead of bumping up the shield up I tend to go for resistances, as ur looking at pve by attacking surface bases I'd increase thermal resistance on your prismatics, then the npcs turrets wont even touch your shields let alone your hull
 
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