The Demo tactics.

[Foshjedi2004]

Well the demo is a few months away, time to get out rebellion and GB and practice the space combat and ground tactics.

 

Does anyone have any tactics to share before the demo release??

[Garbageben]

Since we don't have the demo yet I don't really have any tactics, but I'm probably going to try each ship against another to see which ones seem to work best. I also want to see how fighters/bombers fare against larger capital ships. Basically I will develope tactics based on what I find out in the demo.

[Joshinator]

Yeah, sounds like a good idea. Might be handy if u hook up with a friend or fellow EaW fan, and do mad scientist experiments, pitting every ship against eachother, targeting certain systems for best combat effectiveness. Ahhh that's gonna be fun. But even more fun will be playing the game of course

[Gen.Vader]

wait how can we get the demo again?

[Mcas1937]

I want to see if any of the ships have secondry weapons systems. Like that in addition to turbolasers, that the VicStars (Victory Class Star Destroyers) have conncusion missiles or that X-wings have proton torpedos and the four laser cannons. They could use the differnet weapons for differnet types of targets or in the case of the VicStar, if it got really close to an enemy ship it could launch a volly of conncusion missiles that do a lot of damage, but have a long reload time, completly independly of the turbolasers.

[Joshinator]

Demo is schedualed to come out late December, January.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

i want to see the type of hard points that are supposed to be singly target able.

 

 

and wheres the demo going to be downloaded from not LA cause they dont ever give out demos?

[Popcorn2008]

The demo would probably be downloadable from a place like gamespot, because like you said lately Lucas Arts never gives you a download from there server. For example, republic commando they have a link to download a demo but it redirects you to some other site. Cheap no?

[Mcas1937]

Thats because lucasarts sucks from a custamore support point of view, we just buy there games because they are Star Wars related.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

to true mcas1937 but lucasarts used to be a good developer and publisher. but recently they havent have spent much effort on the games that we want!

 

i think that they should go on the forums and look at the discussions and then work the most on the games that everyone is looking forward to and not the ones that they think are going to earn the most money because they dont they just suck arse and no body knows about them!

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

the demo release is close has anyone got any more ideas for what they are going to do with the demo?

[Star Wars Man]

i want to see the type of hard points that are supposed to be singly target able.

 

 

and wheres the demo going to be downloaded from not LA cause they dont ever give out demos?

 

I think there's a trailer where the Empire's engaging some rebel Mon Calamaries and the bombers say "Target the Ion Cannons" or something. By the way, I'm new here.

[Star Wars Man]

I'd say that with common sense: I'd attack light ships with heavy ships, etc.

[Dorkthehunter]

Welcome to the forums Star Wars Man! I hope you enjoy your stay.

Make sure you never, ever spam because there is not soft spot in our hearts for spammers.

[Star Wars Man]

Here's the trailer:

 

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starwarsrts/media.html

 

The "Official Movie 1" is the movie.

 

Listen to what the pilots say.

[Holly-Gan]

Reanimation of the unused Demo tactics topic..

 

So.. well we got 2 battles, the only one thats worth some discussion would be the on in the Vergesso Metroid field or what ever it was. 

 

What did you use to beat that level?

 

I had a go at heavy armor (Nebulon B frigates corvettes and all) but I found just mass Y-wings and X-wings doing the trick, effectiver with 0 losses..

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

My Tactic in destroying the Space Station at Verguesso was to build 2 Nebulon-b's 4-5 Corellian Corvettes and 1 x-wing and 1 y-wing squad, then using this i'd take my 3 y-wing squad's i attack the Station's Shield Generator (using the -wings to destroy anything attacking the -wing's and ignoring the escort at this point) take the Nebulon-B's and Corvettes and take out gun emplacement's on the station, when they are finished and the y-wings are down use them all to take out the Hanger Bay with this and the guns gone i turn all my ships on the VIctory and the Acclamator taking the Acclamator out first and then the Victory and it's dangerous Ion Cannon. (you can use the Ion Cannon ability to disable to Victory.)

and thats how i take Verguesso Asteroids.

[suggs]

I played the sapce battle to death the ngiht i got it, found out some good strats, i also found out that the AI uses a different strat each time.

 

 

First i just went in guns blazin 4 corrilian corvettes. 3 Nebulon bs a few squads of x and y wings.  I had my y wings do bomb runs on the ships and had all my ships attack the Vsd then the acclamator.  after that was easy.

 

Then after i saw how much punishment The millenium falcon could take i went in and solod the mission with it.

 

My favorite strat was sending my Y wings around behind the astroids and thru the nebula, then have my X wings draw all the imp fighters away and have my Y wings lead bombing runs on the Stations hardpoints(hanger bay first) from behind,  the station couldnt get all of its fighters out of its bay.  I also found out VSDs cant fire at something behind them.  I had a nebulon-b come up behind him and tear the VSD a new one without getting hit at all.  The AI seems to have trouble prioritizing targets  it chased a fleeing corevette while my nebulon B stayed behind it un touched it solod the VSD.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

i use my Y-wings now but they generally get blown up by the Pirate corvettes or the Imp corvettes.

[Guest]

all you have to do for the demo is send the millenium falcon and later send in everyone else to mop up what's left  :-\

[chewieusma2]

Yes I was quite disappointed with the demo tactics for space battles.  I do think that once we start playing multiplayer that this will become more interesting, as will having more ships available.

 

Chewbacca's vehicle stealing ability really impressed me when he stole that AT-AT.  I'm happy to see how effective he and Han can be together.  Possible bug:  I had an AT-AT with hitpoints in the red which, once I stole, became all green.

 

I think that overall this game can't help but be the best pc game on the market for at least 6 months.  The fast paced action is going to keep single and multiplayer wars interesting.  Thanks PG.