Originally posted by Seeker
There's your problem: wrong target. We don't want you to take the FH's down.
We want you to hit the VH, and then the town; because we're tired of doing all the work of town demolition with our gun ammo which should have been used to vulch because you're too new to learn the salvo and delay commands properly to take out a town.
That's why you dump the lot on big, fat hangers, isn't it?
Speak for yourself. I WANT the fh, vh, and all ack down so we can go in, kick the sheeite out of the fighters that are left, and capture the base without some last minute suicide la-la taking off and killing the goon.
I (speaking as a guy who puts together LOTS of base capture missions) have tried it both ways, fh up and fh down. FH up is almost always a bust, especially if there is a brief delay in getting the goon on station. The farther away the base, the worse the challenge. Unless the mission is absolutely HUGE, the attackers will run out of ammo swatting down the planes trying to up, and lose cap. When that happens, no capture is possible, of course.
Face it, a dedicated, don't-give-a-damn goon hunter will probably get the goon before he is killed if the goon is too close to the target with a lot of enemy in the area. That's part of the way the game is played.
So yes, please continue knocking FHs down. And to those of you who object to that due to it limiting your ability to up and kill goons, I'm sorry for your luck. Try flying in from a field nearby.
Now, I am ready for the armchair generals to all tell me how my tactics are wrong or invalid. Usually I hear from the guys who never get involved in the base capture thingie, since it is beneath them. But they know how it should be done, nevertheless.
