X3TC Missile Barrage

A Khaak M2 taking a faceful of Flails

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[turokdarkstar]

What missiles/ship are you using? I've got 150m credits and an itch to pwn some xenon.

[aka1nas]

That's a Paranid Ares firing Flail Missile barrages. Hammers are good against capital ships as well, but are single warhead missiles instead of swarms like a Flail. The Ares is nice because it launches 8 missiles per salvo, which means 64 Flails warheads launching at a time.

I play using scripts like MARS, which improves the AI's targetting significantly and allows them to actually have a good shot at taking down missiles. Saturating the target's fire control with so many targets helps.

[turokdarkstar]

Thanks for the tip.

Yeah, I've looked over some of the scripts already and they seem pretty cool, but I want to get through some more of vanilla before I start going mod crazy.

Oh and I tried using a hammer with a Colossus last night. Pretty powerful missile, I know that because it blew me up. Guess I better stick to the ship you recommended. lol.

[aka1nas]

The Hammer Heavy Torpedo is a M7M-only missile like the Flail. What you fired from the Colossus is a Hammerhead, which is the biggest missile in the game, and does 1.5 million damage in a 1.5KM radius. :>)

The Hammer torp isn't quite that good, but still hits pretty hard.

[xZer0nex]

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[DevilDog016]

Not a pleasant experience... Regardless, it would be difficult to neutralize all missiles - most capships don't generally mount Rapid-Fire guns... The PSG, FAA, and only a couple other guns can provide effective defense.

One of the reasons I keep a few Oddy's around for antifighter/missile purposes.

[Shyanmar]

Nice one. An Ares, is it?

I do prefer the ATF Skirnir though, although it's a tough piece of work to get one, it's sure worth it. I like it that unlike the Hammerheads the Skirnir's Shadow missiles are swarm-fired, too. Takes me 3-4 volleys to blast a Xenon station ...

I think I might try to clear some Khaak sectors with it, too ...

[MrSmackyWiseGuy]

how do you fire salvos?

[eltsoldier]

I found one of those once, the Hammerhead missile... Was just floating around randomly in space in a pirate sector, no idea who dropped it. You're right, they're ludicrously powerful, but nowhere near as strong as the HHT. Rather surprisingly they can be fired from most M3 Fighters. Normally though I use Banshee missiles; One shot will pop an M6, as long as you don't try it when he's reaming you with flak.

[Torlan47]

Looks pretty sweet. I'm thinking a good M7M might be the key to winning the last final fury mission. I let my combat rank get up there a bit and there's over a dozen Khaak destroyers and quite a few carriers when I fly the mission.

[OfficeThug]

It's worth every penny buying a huge Flail/Hammer missile complex just to get a tonne of these M7M missiles. You quite litterally feel like you're flying a nuclear strike submarine in space when you sit there 30+ km away from a target and fire like 20 salvos of flails and hammers at an extremely unlucky target.

The missiles are guided too, unlike the Hammerhead which is dumbfire. Flails and Hammer torps will switch to the next nearest hostile when their target is destroyed. M7Ms are brutal

[turokdarkstar]

Somehow I don't think I should be firing it from a Colossus, and should probably use a proper M7M like you said. As I watched the missile leave my ship after firing on the right auto-missile screen, it literally ejected and than detonated on my under-belly. =P