Dalton wrote:Hellhound missiles REALLY help. Long-range, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, you have to have progressed somewhat along the Rebel arc, and the upgrades (and missiles) are, so far to me, available only at Rebel II in the Koria system (somewhat northeast of Nesre Primus).
You don't need to be in the Rebel arc, IIRC. You just have to look for them (and their launcher). Second-best missile available to humans (the Etheric Wake being even better, but takes a huge amount of space).
Remember that Manticore I mentioned? Took it down with Hellhounds and avoided those nasty ion cannons.
This is why I have four Stormfire turrets to knock down those missiles. I've taken on packs of missile-wielding gunboats this way (using whatever railguns I have to standoff).
What do you mean when you say they lead an enemy on their own? And where do you get the ion cannons? Those fuckers are real nasty on shields (I think they're ion cannons; I've run into Pirate Starbridges that've blown me apart in mere seconds with blue beams of some sort).
I'm trying to remember where you can get them, but they are quite nasty. My two Class D Pirate Starbridge escorts have a pair of them apiece.
EDIT: I just remembered. If you progress far enough along the Wild Geese arc, you have the choice of either continuing into either the Rebel or Auroran arcs. I chose Rebel, and found that Olaf's now my uncle and I have some pretty sweet new upgrades available at Viking, such as Olaf's sensor booster (600k and second only to Polaris sensor boosters) and all the pirate mod ships.
The sensor booster is available to non-Rebels, actually. I bought the Auroran, Federation and Rebel ones to clean up my sensor scope. And IIRC, certain mod ships require capture (which you can't do, alas) rather than purchase.
