The Han Solo manoeuvre

graeme.firth

graeme.firth
Hi,

Thought I'd share my little adventure.

Nanomann was quite tasty tonight and so I found myself running a few errands for Hudson. Decided to take my Cobra, it's quite heavily loaded in case I run into small trouble and usually fast enough to get me away from big trouble.

On my second trip into Nanomann there was Cmdrs everywhere and not feds . . . quite a few from Archon's neck of the woods.

I'd been interdicted a few times and so was expecting more of the same and happily found myself being interdicted again by another Cmdr. The last guy had a python and was easily out run but on this interdiction I felt a small knot in my stomach when I realised it was an Imperial Clipper . . . there quite fast.

I was in no mood for ditching my cargo or simply being taken out for the sake of someone's power play points so I plotted my escape vector and started boosting, waiting for the FSD to cool down, I watched carefully my target range . . . 2.5 Km. Damn!! more boosting and the Imp Clipper is keeping up with me. Laser fire is starting to come in and the shields are starting to weaken. Start to charge the FSD but I have inhibitive factor of 17, it's charging slowly and the shields are still dropping, Archon's minion is still in range.

The FSD is half way charged and I'm down to my last shield ring. I thought I'd try something I saw in a movie once.

Flight assist off, boost, pitch with thrust and in a near instant I'm facing my attacker. I boost again heading for a point just behind my attackers engines. I can sense his/her confusion " is he doing? is this guy gonna ram me?"

In my head I can hear the AI warning me of the odds of surviving a head on assault against an Imperial Star Destroyer (poetic license).

As I shoot past the ship I watch the holo of the Imperial Clipper as it painfully tries to slow down and turn to maintain the chase. I boost again and chuckle to myself as I see FSD drive charge suddenly accelerate as I break free of the inhibition field.

Whoomp . . . I'm away. I reckon that's the closest you can get to pulling off the Han Solo manoeuvre in Elite Dangerous.

So, I know PP isn't every ones cup of tea - but it is making for some exciting times. Fly safe Cmdrs.
 
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aws357

A
And aren't you suppose to attach to the enemy ship and wait for the garbage to camouflage your escape only to be followed by a crafty bounty hunter that will capture you after you've been betrayed and frozen into a carbonite popsicle?

Joke apart, I did this maneuver more than once. You only have to be careful not to ram the enemy. You only pretend to...
 

Ben Ryder

Ben Ryder
graeme.firth said:
Hi,

Thought I'd share my little adventure.

Nanomann was quite tasty tonight and so I found myself running a few errands for Hudson. Decided to take my Cobra, it's quite heavily loaded in case I run into small trouble and usually fast enough to get me away from big trouble.

On my second trip into Nanomann there was Cmdrs everywhere and not feds . . . quite a few from Archon's neck of the woods.

I'd been interdicted a few times and so was expecting more of the same and happily found myself being interdicted again by another Cmdr. The last guy had a python and was easily out run but on this interdiction I felt a small knot in my stomach when I realised it was an Imperial Clipper . . . there quite fast.

I was in no mood for ditching my cargo or simply being taken out for the sake of someone's power play points so I plotted my escape vector and started boosting, waiting for the FSD to cool down, I watched carefully my target range . . . 2.5 Km. Damn!! more boosting and the Imp Clipper is keeping up with me. Laser fire is starting to come in and the shields are starting to weaken. Start to charge the FSD but I have inhibitive factor of 17, it's charging slowly and the shields are still dropping, Archon's minion is still in range.

The FSD is half way charged and I'm down to my last shield ring. I thought I'd try something I saw in a movie once.

Flight assist off, boost, pitch with thrust and in a near instant I'm facing my attacker. I boost again heading for a point just behind my attackers engines. I can sense his/her confusion " is he doing? is this guy gonna ram me?"

In my head I can hear the AI warning me of the odds of surviving a head on assault and against and Imperial Star Destroyer (poetic license).

As I shoot past the ship I watch the holo of the Imperial Clipper as it painfully tries to slow down and turn to maintain the chase. I boost again and chuckle to myself as I see FSD drive charge suddenly accelerate as I break free of the inhibition field.

Whoomp . . . I'm away. I reckon that's the closest you can get to pulling off the Han Solo manoeuvre in Elite Dangerous.

So, I know PP isn't every ones cup of tea - but it is making for some exciting times. Fly safe Cmdrs.
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Hardcore Sir. Have you considered a life with Commanders in Charge of the Galaxy?
 
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IronGremlin

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Yeah, this doesn't work every time, but it's a pretty solid maneuver. AI rarely has enough energy to boost twice, but if you do you can pull a 180 and max velocity along the opposite vector much, much more quickly than they can turn around.

I also use this against ships that out class me in order to get on their six without taking too much damage, but that is a little harder to pull off due to a tendency to over shoot the mark.

"FA off -> throttle 0 -> boost on new vector" is a great evasive maneuver kind of regardless of context, and it never fails to make you feel like a badass when you pull it off.
 

M00ka

M00ka
Well i was way off the mark, I thought he was talking about some massive exploration trip where he did some phenomenal trip in 12 parsecs ....
 
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