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I have a question for all you EVO players...what is the most spectacular win over the dreadnought you have experienced, yours or otherwise. I heard a while ago of some god like player that had beaten it with a shuttlecraft. My record is a scoutship, what about you people?
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The lowest class I've ever bothered trying to beat it in was an Arada....if you think the guy who won in a shuttle was godlike though....its still nothing compared to the oldie Ankh Starrunner, who killed it with a mere Krait. I know, I can't believe it either.
UEC
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Originally posted by UE Crusader: **Its still nothing compared to the oldie Ankh Starrunner, who killed it with a mere Krait. I know, I can't believe it either. **
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Is that Ankh of rpg fame?
I could have killed it in a Shuttle, without weaponry.
When I got the mission, and finally came face to face with it, my destroyers blew the sucker up before I even managed to fire off one shot. It sucked - I wanted to dogfight it. Ohwell, easy coupla million credits.
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Originally posted by oasamostexianu: **I could have killed it in a Shuttle, without weaponry.
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Umm, excuse my ignorance, are you saying that the four destroyer escorts blew up the dreadnought?!
The best I've ever done is a brand-new freight-courior which had never seen an outfit shop.
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Why bother to face it one to one. Just go to alpha station, get that mission to kill the weapon convoy i voric system. The carrier and destroyers will beat it in aa matter ogf seconds. The most easy money in the game. Call it cheating if you want, i'm just lazy
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Dude I did it with a scoutship. You just need to take on the fighters and hope the Destroyers can get the dreadnought low enough. It takes a lot of tries but sooner or later you can get it. At least I did
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Originally posted by Ubermann: Umm, excuse my ignorance, are you saying that the four destroyer escorts blew up the dreadnought?!
Yeah, and a UE taskforce also happened to be in the system at the time. It sucked.
Or you could put Dospect on an Azdara with the Experimental Generator. As long as you dodge most of the rockets, you won't have to worry about getting killed.
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My best is a (url="http://"http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dsghosh/evosite/shipyard1.html#scoutship")scoutship(/url). All I did was take on the (url="http://"http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dsghosh/evosite/shipyard2.html#vinterceptor")interceptors(/url) while my escort (url="http://"http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dsghosh/evosite/shipyard1.html#uedestroyer")destroyer(/url) and a few stray UE ships got the ship low enough that I could take it on. Simple.
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Scoutship with 3 Blaze Cannons.
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Yup, scoutships are popular. I am currently trying to win in a shuttle with two blaze cannons.
I beat it in a helian, with two turncoat escorts, thats pretty fly eh?
Originally posted by HopelessKid: I beat it in a helian, with two turncoat escorts, thats pretty fly eh?
The turncoats make it easy and how was the helian outfitted? The outfits make the difference.
Aye, mate! Pull up a chair. Sit a spell, and listen.
I was in my UE Fighter, serial number GH-905-IV (never bothered to give her a decent name). The United Earth techies were kind enough to give me an experimental cloaking device, but since the unit was classified, it was unavailable on the open market, and it could not be removed from my fighter. So, when I was given the Isled recon mission, I had to stick with this rusty lil' bird for the duration.
The Dreadnought mission. My task force: the four UE Destroyers, two UE carriers who happened to be at the battle scene, and my merc force of Emalgha warships. Yes, the Emalgha. Their kinetic energy guns (and more importantly, their rockets) made them a deceptively potent hammer against the Voinian monstrosity.
I pulled the Emalgh off the line and ordered them to wait. I then went in, supporting the other fighters and the capital ships in sweeping the asteroid field of enemy fighters. Then we went to work on the escorting frigates. Okay, so my four swiveling pahse cannons were not the best guns to use against heavy armor, but the frigates got carved up just the same. The mixed blessing was that these phase guns made short work of the Voinian shields, and the UE boys set upon the 'Nought's exposed armor hull.
Soon the fighters crumpled into flame, then the destroyers either went cat or spun out, disabled. The carrier, with all their vaunted homing missiles, lost most of that ammo to stray asteroids, and their close-in blaze guns hardly warmed up the Dreadnought's hull. They, too fell out of commission. It was left to me and the Elms. They acknowledged my call-up order and moved in, firing their guns and rockets. Needless to say, their valiant effort was short, but I could tell from the rocket impacts, they did their job well. It was left to me.
With a vehicle as fast as a fighter, you can outpace the neutron bolts and only take a fraction of the Dreadnought's volleys. Just zip by and get in a burst. With phase guns, it was easy. Simply put, they have the longest, most accurate reach of any guns in the cluster. It ended up as a gunfight, Adara-style, with my fighter zipping by fast enough to get in a burst, then recover my damage as I came 'round for the second pass. Any enemy frigate or cruiser than dropped in on the system never saw me, thanks to a quick employment of the cloak. As soon as they left, it was back to the fight. Even the dead were put to use, as the drifting hulks served as mines that blew nicely with a little exposure to phase energy.
Final burst laid in, and the mighty ship lay motionless. One long, final coup de grace, then it was time to kick in the motors and run as the hulk detonated in the largest blast you'll ever see!
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So, how many people used the monty python to destroy it? I don't unless I'm about to die, I prefer a straight out one on one fight.
Mike
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Trading? Who needs trading when you can nullify* the crescent in a Voinian Cruiser!
I've only beaten the dreadnaught once in a non-cheating pilot (I've beaten it before, but I was cheating, so it doesn't count). And that time that I did beat it, I was in a 1,800 ton and 150 meters long Voinian cruiser with six Neutron turrets, Bronov Plating, Dospect Armor, Shield Capacitors, and 3 CW escorts along with another 3 Igazra escorts (i'm very paranoid about Dreadnaughts).
*Nullify-Blast them to the next dimension
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(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 12-30-2000).)