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Newcomer / Intro Shooting Soldiers from Above
- Thread starter KingDrax
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Oh excellent, they are so annoying shooting my shields with their popguns and me not being able to shoot back.
Death by dumbfire missiles it shall be!
Thank you!
It is possible to laser ground troops to death, but it's not easy. You have to manually aim and keep the laser on target with ship wobble so it's only really effective in low g. Makes one feel like a kid with a magnifying glass.
By far the most fun is to be had by hugging the ground and squishing them with the belly of your ship.
How about auto-cannons? They any good against these shouty ground troops?
Oooh lovely
I'm looking forward to this. I'll be careful to not destroy their cleaning staff, so there will be someone left to clean up the mess 
Missile "orbital" bombardment is a tactic I've used many times against ground troops *. Mostly when I don't have time or just don't fancy going ground-to-ground.
Interestingly, the experience gained goes towards your ship combat rank rather than mercenary.
* Depending on your circumstances and what you are doing, it's entirely possible to become a murderer when using his tactic - I reserve blanketing the targets when they are scavs.
Interestingly, the experience gained goes towards your ship combat rank rather than mercenary.
* Depending on your circumstances and what you are doing, it's entirely possible to become a murderer when using his tactic - I reserve blanketing the targets when they are scavs.
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The problem is that you can’t target lock them except for the one who is shooting and hitting your ship and as soon as they stop shooting you loose that lock. So precision weapons are ineffective, I do wonder if a beam laser would work as you could steer the impact point through the ground troops.
But dumbfire missiles and squishing seem to be the best options.
I have seen a fellow CMDR bounce the Scorpion up into the air and drop down on the poor NPCs. SPLAT!
The damage done by lasers and multis are very very low even when you hit ground troops, so you need to manually keep the lasers on them for quite some time.