Combat Sidewinder. Suggestions?

[Deleted member 110222]

Weapons, utilities, etc.?

Trying to make a Quality™ fighter out of the ship.

Engineers are now valid suggestions!

 

[tafkabb]

Someone on the Facebook group built a SuperSidey™, engineering it to the absolute maximum. It went quite well until it was lost due to a game bug, and at that time Frontier wasn't replacing engineered modules.

 

[goemon]

- you want enhanced performance thrusters, a modul which you can buy at martuk and farseer outfitting (buy, not engineer)

weapons:
- beam + mc
- beam + cannon
- 2 mcs, one with Iíncendiary rounds special
- 2 plasma slug railguns

shield: class 2 bi-weave, thermal resistant

bulkheads: mirrored surface, modded lightweight

utilities: 1 chaff, 1 KWS (BHing) or 1 chaff, 1 pointdefence (CZ), or double chaff or 1 chaff one fsw (gathering materials for engineers)

- don't forget a-grade sensors, so you have a good situational awareness

 

[Deleted member 110222]

- you want enhanced performance thrusters, a modul which you can buy at martuk and farseer outfitting (buy, not engineer)

weapons:
- beam + mc
- beam + cannon
- 2 mcs, one with Iíncendiary rounds special
- 2 plasma slug railguns

shield: class 2 bi-weave, thermal resistant

bulkheads: mirrored surface, modded lightweight

utilities: 1 chaff, 1 KWS (BHing) or 1 chaff, 1 pointdefence (CZ), or double chaff or 1 chaff one fsw (gathering materials for engineers)

- don't forget a-grade sensors, so you have a good situational awareness

Beam + MC sounds tasty. Might have to give that one a go.

What distro' mod' would you recommend?

 

[duckofdeath]

I had a lot of fun with a build using beam + cannon last year. I think that works better than MC on the sidey, because you really have to stay close up on the big targets no mater what, just to stay alive.

 

[goemon]

What distro' mod' would you recommend?

as long as you don't go for the two railguns combo, charge enhanced all the way!

(if you like the beam and MC combo, you might want to look into beam and cannon, because that combi is the only one which will allow you to kill an anaconda in under one hour... cannons are great to hit above their size)

 

[Deleted member 110222]

I had a lot of fun with a build using beam + cannon last year. I think that works better than MC on the sidey, because you really have to stay close up on the big targets no mater what, just to stay alive.

Interesting. If I'm not mistaken, cannons have a smaller/no damage penalty against larger hulls?

Ninja'd!

 

[goemon]

I had a lot of fun with a build using beam + cannon last year. I think that works better than MC on the sidey, because you really have to stay close up on the big targets no mater what, just to stay alive.

yeah, probably a shortrange-blaster beam could make sense for once ... on a sidey. with a force shell overcharged cannon ...

 

[mung0]

Orange ignition paint job.

 

[CMDR Cknarf]

Twin railguns.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Another question, guys.

You think a fixed beam + gimballed cannon would be good?

 

[Gully Foyle]

I'd mount fixed for both types.
Easy to aim with the Sidey's maneuverability, and the cannon does its best work up close.
Make sure to set your aiming for leading to get the reticule at its most efficient.
o7

 

[Deleted member 110222]

I'd mount fixed for both types.
Easy to aim with the Sidey's maneuverability, and the cannon does its best work up close.
Make sure to set your aiming for leading to get the reticule at its most efficient.
o7

Thankey doodley dee.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Thankey doodley dee.

Es ist immer ein Vergnügen, ein Kerl Kommandant zu helfen!

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Crikey. Around 100,000 credits for an A-rate distro', beam, and cannon!

That's a lot when you are running on nothing.

I love it!

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

The Sidewinder is one of the most underestimated ships... and so much fun.

I remember, when we had a 4 CMDR Sidey stealth wing, when the first artifacts were sighted. We used CoOp builds to track and follow those convoys... two equipped for combat (one with fixed pulse lasers, one with fixed multis), one was for scanning (and quipped with missiles) and the last one was for tracking (and equipped with mines). That wing offered the best gameplay i had in Elite. Need to get the band back together... we need engineered stealth Sideys

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

Es ist immer ein Vergnügen, ein Kerl Kommandant zu helfen!

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