Basilisk Quick Killing tips (Top Gun 201)

Of course, generous heaps of ramming <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> (how do you think I got my callsign?)

Hmmmmmm ramming..... <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Have another tactic. Select Shroud, cloak, get behind Comrade Petrov, match speed, and when it locks, let loose. One Vagabond should be adequate in easy level. Ivan was still saying &quot;Ahh,.. you might provide a little sport&quot; from the debris. &quot;I do not care who you were, from now on you´re part of the Navy-My family.&quot;

hey thats an idea for a mod! bumper cars... just change it to a 2d plane of motion and there you go! ------------------------------------ step 1: take 1 slice of bread and 1 pot of Bicarbonate of soda... ------------------------- step 2. place Bicarbonate of soda in slice of bread (sandwich style) ------------------------- step 3. feed to CO-PILOTS. ------------------------- step 4. BANG

RAMMMMM!!!!!!! I used to like blind fire ships...now im starting to like mirage....coz it looks cool in the movies <img src=smilies/icon_smile_cool.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

easy! you target nearest, get screamers, when hes in range cut to about 3/4 thrust if your a fast one, and shoot screamers befor he cloaks and if you hit him with 1-2 with lazers he should smoke, should be cloaked by then, follow the smoke blast em or ram him, ram him hard!! Time to roll wtih the Dados Hombre

I agree with the screamer technique. When the basilisk cloaks, he thinks he´s safe, but a couple pairs of screamers up his cloaked engine will surely change is mind, but don´t match speeds with the Z key, do it manually or else you´ll speed up when they cloak. You´d justing be wasting ammo with any kind of homing missile my brain hurtz

WOLVERINE!WOLVERINE!WOLVERINE! They are excellent at taking out basilisk! it can kill a basilisk in an instant with the right targeting!!!! I Demand &quot;protect my target&quot;, you dumbhead AI wingmen and shoot down those damn torpedoes!!!!

Hasn´t anyone heard of Nova Cannon? Once I figured out how it worked (stupid book) I was roasting them!

i think i read somewhere that the vagabond missle stays locked on even after the basalisk cloaks...that is if you fire it before he cloaks, otherwise you just lose your target lock or, for thoes that don´t mind editing, just set their armor and shields down to 0...then you can get rid of them real quick <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. it´s funny watching them just jump in and they´re already smoking anyway, i think the bumper car mod is a really good idea... Hit em hard

Deviant, I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Yeah, it is probably easier to kill the basilik with a Nova cannon, but can you do it *as quickly*? by the time you charge up that nova cannon, you probably could have pumped him full of screamers and moved on to your next target. And if you miss with the Nova, then you gotta wait for it to charge up again. Meanwhile the idiots that are supposed to be your wingmen are dying. The Vagabond missle is cool Kyp, but for speed purposes, I can usually pick out the cloaked ships just by eye (or wingmen running away scared). Why wait for him to uncloak to use a Vagabond, when you can pump him full of screamers right that second when you see him? SCREAMERS BABY!!!!! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - RAMJET on 1/12/01 4:49:06 AM

Uh, no. Whenever I want to kill them, I just charge it up before I´m even near them. By the time one is in range, it´s charged... it doesn´t take THAT long. One hit will take them out... I find that´s easiest and pretty damn quick. Don´t get me wrong, I love screamers myself, but hell, they drop like flies under the nova. If you´re worried about missing, theres just as good a chance (if not more) to miss with screamers considering the Nova cannon is instantaneous.

screamers rule, i used them troughout the game

I had a little fun on that mission...massive editing with SLEdit: 1. Lower Basilisk shield and armor to 5 2. Raise your figher´s shields and armor to about 25000. 3. Raise your Max Speed to 500. 4. (optional) Lower Basilisk´s Max Speed to about 50 Believe me, you will not have to use any weapons for the (Foster Sacrifice) mission with those Basilisks...simply ram them to oblivion! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> If you don´t use SLEdit...this procedure is impossible to achieve without using weapons... and your shield/armor will be zero very quickly (time to eject). Digger - If my wingmen would do their job, my name would be different. Back to the serious issue: I´ve found that afterburning towards them with (Full) weapons blasting away is very effective...but it takes timing. You can usually get them smoking very quickly before they cloak...then you can track them easily. If they cloak before you get them smoking, hit R to target the nearest uncloaked Basilisk...and do the same thing. It helps if your figher is fast, and has more powerful weapons. The object is to get their (Basilisk) shields down and do some damage to their armor...causing them to smoke...then tracking them is easy and use of the Vagbond is nice...but not required. Edited by - Digger on 2/14/01 10:10:21 PM

I´ve also figured out a few other tactics against the ominous Basilisk, played without any editing to the ships: 1. Target a baskilisk (no brainer) 2. Get in behind them and blast away (they usually begin to cloak) 3. If you get in close enough to the basilisk, and they cloak, you can still see them quite easily and continue to blast them (you have to be pretty close to them) I´ve noticed that even if they are not damaged when they cloak, they seem to lose about 50% shield power once they do cloak...and get destroyed quite easily... Maybe it´s just me, but I found this to work quite well (remember, you have to be pretty close to the basilisk when they cloak). Digger - If my wingmen would do their job, my name would be different

Uhm, what is so difficult about those Basilisk fighters? I had never problems with shooting them down. I even killed that Basilisk that appeared in one of the first missions (I think it was in mission 2) with my sweet llttle Naginata.

Basilisk´s can cloak...that is the main thing about them...they also have the most powerful weapons of the Coalition figher´s...and their shielding is quite good as well. Overall, I´d say the Basilisk outranks the Shroud in capability (given the same skill pilots)...it´s the human factor that makes the difference. Try taking out the Black Guard (flying a Basilisk) in mission 1 on Hard level...it ain´t that easy <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Digger - If my wingmen would do their job, my name would be different

u want to test that theory in multi digger? switch the baslisk with one of the other ships and i´ll take a shroud against u <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> the baslisk is a pile of effluent, its horribly slow and has crap maneuverbility, u may get a kill if ur lucky :p How can you hope to defeat me mortal? I am eternal, you are but a grain in the sands of time