Hi, long time lurker. I had a lvl 4 station at Alderaan during the reb's early campaign (I was trying something diffrent). I had the following things: Antillies 3 corvettes 3 Marauders (did not last past 5 minuets, too slow) 5 x-wings 2 y-wings. and the imperials attacked with: 10 Acclamators (plus their full fighter/bomber contigents) 20 Broadside cruisers A bunch of Tartans (not sure exact number, but around 10) It was quite literally an attritional battale against my aggresive defence. The computer sent in alot of tartans at first, with an Acclamator of a couple broadsides. I, recently finding out just how powerfull those suckers were, launched a missile barrage from my Marauders, damaging many of the ships, and destoying at least 3 tatrans, and damaging the rest for easy pickings by my ships, and the spawning NebB. For the most part I used my ships to protect my Marauders and chase down those braodsides. I used everything to keep those braodsides from attacking my station, as it was the only thing spawning fighters and nebs, thereby keeping me alive. At around the 4 minuete mark, the enemy was aby to organize enough, dispite my best efforts, to launch a barrage from 5 broadsides and destroying 2 and my corvettes, and heavily damaging one, which was destroyed by an acclamator a few seconds later. At about this point my missile barrage ability was ready again, though the cruisers were under heavy fire. They managed to drop a full payload beofre 2 of them were destroyed, and took down 2 acclamators and 3 braodsides. My third marauder managed to survive for another couple minuets, softening up enemy ships as they came in before 3 more broadsides got it. At about this point, I started using my nebs for broadside killing, and my y-wings were now tearing the acclamators apart. Fortionetly, the Ai seems to have sent in all it's tartans early, so it then became a element of time, constantly sending in my newly spawned nebs in the braodside hunt, usin my spawning y-wings to slay the evil acclamators and the X-wings to massacre the ties. Oh, by the way, the station was so badly damaged that it was reduced to a lvl 2 station after the battle. By almost all accounts I should have lost that battle, IMO, with my marauders bein the only heavy ships I had. Good thing the Ai didn't save a Tartan or two for the mid-point to keep my fighters from doing mass acclamator killings. P.S. Sorry if I double posted this, but the board didn't post when I pressed post [EDIT] I forgot to mention, I had built a long range scanner, which survived the fight [/EDIT]
