Saturnyne
Vice Admiral
For those who have read posts I put up here long looooooong ago... I was trying to figure out how to bomb Kilrathi Corvettes to hell and back. And shortly after that, I began a small run of creativity in capship killing tactics.
Since moving back up here to Canada, I hadn't been able to play Wing Commander in about 4 years. I'm up to Novaya Kiev in WC2, where of course, one meets with the dreaded Ralatha.
With corvettes, you have the luxury of picking a light or heavy fighter (prefferably, one that can slide), and with creative use of distance and maneuvering, you could take out a corvette in the space of minute without a scratch.
The Ralatha is a different story.
Now, it's easy enough to say that all you have to do is arm a torp, lock on and cruise towards it, ready to make it into the newest Chinese firework, but it's not that easy. See, there's this matter of its rather powerful armament augmented by its anti-matter cannon. For those who have played the first Wing Commander, the anti-matter gun can be equated to the Jalthi. In anything less than a Broadsword, it'll turn you into borscht. Cajun style.
So, I'm asking all the old pros out there. When stuck in a Broadsword (Or most anything else with torpedoes for that matter), how do you best destroy the Ralatha and avoid the anti-matter guns? Despite their low firing rate, they can kill your shields in two hits, and then you'll be flying nothing but pieces.
As I recall, the cannon can turn to the back, so circumventing it won't help... approaching from the top or bottom seems best, but I'm certainly willing to bet that it will spend its time trying to turn that cannon towards you.
Since moving back up here to Canada, I hadn't been able to play Wing Commander in about 4 years. I'm up to Novaya Kiev in WC2, where of course, one meets with the dreaded Ralatha.
With corvettes, you have the luxury of picking a light or heavy fighter (prefferably, one that can slide), and with creative use of distance and maneuvering, you could take out a corvette in the space of minute without a scratch.
The Ralatha is a different story.
Now, it's easy enough to say that all you have to do is arm a torp, lock on and cruise towards it, ready to make it into the newest Chinese firework, but it's not that easy. See, there's this matter of its rather powerful armament augmented by its anti-matter cannon. For those who have played the first Wing Commander, the anti-matter gun can be equated to the Jalthi. In anything less than a Broadsword, it'll turn you into borscht. Cajun style.
So, I'm asking all the old pros out there. When stuck in a Broadsword (Or most anything else with torpedoes for that matter), how do you best destroy the Ralatha and avoid the anti-matter guns? Despite their low firing rate, they can kill your shields in two hits, and then you'll be flying nothing but pieces.
As I recall, the cannon can turn to the back, so circumventing it won't help... approaching from the top or bottom seems best, but I'm certainly willing to bet that it will spend its time trying to turn that cannon towards you.