Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 23

Ok, remember the Shivan corvette that attacks the Aquitane in Proving Grounds? Is it even possible to destroy that thing? The game says I gotta keep it in sensor range in order for the Aquitane's gunners to target it. Well, the corvette warps in, five seconds later, I'm in sensor range, the Aquitane fires for effect, but bottom line, the Moloch still remains! And trust me, I've tried everything! Has anyone ever destroyed the Tiamat? If so, can you help me out here? I know it can be done!

__________________
Viceroy: My lord, isn't that illegal?
Sidious: I will make it legal!

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 23

Ok, remember the Shivan corvette that attacks the Aquitane in Proving Grounds? Is it even possible to destroy that thing? The game says I gotta keep it in sensor range in order for the Aquitane's gunners to target it. Well, the corvette warps in, five seconds later, I'm in sensor range, the Aquitane fires for effect, but bottom line, the Moloch still remains! And trust me, I've tried everything! Has anyone ever destroyed the Tiamat? If so, can you help me out here? I know it can be done!

__________________
Viceroy: My lord, isn't that illegal?
Sidious: I will make it legal!

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2002
Location: MiCroatia
Posts: 323

I've destroyed it before. It's kinda hard..

as for sensors, I don't beleive there's anything I can find fred wise that makes the Aquitaine kill it when it's in Sensor range, so either its just bs or its hard coded or something. Generally I disarm its main beams and let the Aqutaine finish it off or try. Just keep at it, and if it's too hard, lower the difficulty.

__________________
"Luck of da Irish... BIOTCH!!"

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2002
Location: MiCroatia
Posts: 323

I've destroyed it before. It's kinda hard..

as for sensors, I don't beleive there's anything I can find fred wise that makes the Aquitaine kill it when it's in Sensor range, so either its just bs or its hard coded or something. Generally I disarm its main beams and let the Aqutaine finish it off or try. Just keep at it, and if it's too hard, lower the difficulty.

__________________
"Luck of da Irish... BIOTCH!!"

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2002
Location: England
Posts: 176

My best tip is to take an SDG or Stilleto 2 and blow it's engines, weapons and reactor. You should be able to do this solo (leaving your wingmates to hit the bombers). If you do this, she'll have nowhere to go and nothing to do but die.

__________________
In Fine Solum Unum Potest Esse

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2002
Location: England
Posts: 176

My best tip is to take an SDG or Stilleto 2 and blow it's engines, weapons and reactor. You should be able to do this solo (leaving your wingmates to hit the bombers). If you do this, she'll have nowhere to go and nothing to do but die.

__________________
In Fine Solum Unum Potest Esse

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Warszawa Polska
Posts: 385

I made it twice with great help of my RIP wingmen. The engines gone down and therefore the corvette couldn`t warp out. The Aquitaine`s beams did the rest, but in most cases it didn`t work out.

MOstly, either the corvette managed to get out or it was disabled but with Aquitaine leaving the battlefield I couldm`t do anything. I destroyed every subsystem and cannon, the hull dropped to 10 % but it was everything I could do. I prayed for a single bomber, for one trebuchet but there wasn`t any of course. It was sad: having a corvette, a real sitting duck and couldn`t destroy it

__________________
Lasciate ogni speranza... Dante Alighieri
I`m not the king of your minds...

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Warszawa Polska
Posts: 385

I made it twice with great help of my RIP wingmen. The engines gone down and therefore the corvette couldn`t warp out. The Aquitaine`s beams did the rest, but in most cases it didn`t work out.

MOstly, either the corvette managed to get out or it was disabled but with Aquitaine leaving the battlefield I couldm`t do anything. I destroyed every subsystem and cannon, the hull dropped to 10 % but it was everything I could do. I prayed for a single bomber, for one trebuchet but there wasn`t any of course. It was sad: having a corvette, a real sitting duck and couldn`t destroy it

__________________
Lasciate ogni speranza... Dante Alighieri
I`m not the king of your minds...

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2001
Location:
Posts: 1234

You would think that under those conditions command would sortie a couple of bombers .

__________________
Questions about FS3? Questions about Fred? Questions about missions? Questions about adding new ships to your games?

[URL=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/intro.html]Karajorma's Freespace FAQ [/URL] (now with added GE goodness)

Supreme Overlord of The Mercury Affair Campaign.

FREDder, Modder, Story design and general busybody for [URL=http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/mindgames/Background.html] Mind Games[/URL]

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Warszawa Polska
Posts: 385

Yeah. They should have sent one wing.

__________________
Lasciate ogni speranza... Dante Alighieri
I`m not the king of your minds...

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 682

even on Very Easy, the SCv Tiamat never gets blown up.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Command deck of EAS Janus
Posts: 1755

It can be destroyed, it is just the matter how much you concentrade on it.

__________________
"Losing your temper is sign of worries or panic"
-Shogun Tokugawa

Aku. Soku. Zan.
-The wolves of Mibu, Shinsen gumi

Creator of [URL=http://www.hot.ee/miburo1]Tale of EAS Janus[/URL] campaign
Also leader of [URL=http://www.hot.ee/honorofomega/]Honor of Omega[/URL] campaign
FREDer and general errant boy of mighty [URL=http://http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/mindgames/]Mind Games[/URL], which power no-one can escape. There is always a first time.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Trencin SLOVAKIA
Posts: 7

In weapons loadout section is only one weapon, which you can destroy the Tiamat - EMP Advanced. It's possible even though the Aquitaine departed. You must very much missiles shoot to Tiamat, however.

Try now!

(BTW, sorry my english no good, i from Slovakia )

__________________
They were like the others: strange, hideous, resisting, fighting.
Only these were not like the others. These did not die.

Last edited by Axel Wers on 03-21-2003 at 11:59 PM

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Trencin SLOVAKIA
Posts: 7

In weapons loadout section is only one weapon, which you can destroy the Tiamat - EMP Advanced. It's possible even though the Aquitaine departed. You must very much missiles shoot to Tiamat, however.

Try now!

(BTW, sorry my english no good, i from Slovakia )

__________________
They were like the others: strange, hideous, resisting, fighting.
Only these were not like the others. These did not die.

Last edited by Axel Wers on 03-21-2003 at 11:59 PM

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jan 2003
Location: milwaukee
Posts: 75

Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread,
but that damn thing wont blow up. i try and i try, i took out all its subsystems and pounded on it with my fighters for a looong time. any specifics on how you flyboys did it?
(or is it a matter of timing in the mission ie. its invincible near the end?)

__________________
One thing about freespace has not just been etched in my memory, but has become a part of my memory, the destruction of the colossus. I can still smell the burning pine wood...

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jan 2003
Location: milwaukee
Posts: 75

Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread,
but that damn thing wont blow up. i try and i try, i took out all its subsystems and pounded on it with my fighters for a looong time. any specifics on how you flyboys did it?
(or is it a matter of timing in the mission ie. its invincible near the end?)

__________________
One thing about freespace has not just been etched in my memory, but has become a part of my memory, the destruction of the colossus. I can still smell the burning pine wood...

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2002
Location: MiCroatia
Posts: 323

It's actually a matter of tables. None of the weapons available save maybe the emp I guess have "big" tags allowing thme to harm crovettes and up. Normal fighter weapons do a certain amount of damage and then stop.

__________________
"Luck of da Irish... BIOTCH!!"

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2002
Location: MiCroatia
Posts: 323

It's actually a matter of tables. None of the weapons available save maybe the emp I guess have "big" tags allowing thme to harm crovettes and up. Normal fighter weapons do a certain amount of damage and then stop.

__________________
"Luck of da Irish... BIOTCH!!"

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: May 2001
Location: Israel
Posts: 144

Yes, the "big" tag is so annoying sometimes. Of course, it stops a fighter single-handedly destroying a destroyer by shooting with a maxim from 3 km (If you don't know what it does, it disallows a weapon without the 'big' tag in the tables to lower anything of corvette size or larger below 10%), but I found it infinitely annoying sometimes (One that comes in mind is when a scripting error in some mission in Derelict let me completely disarm the Auriga, and lower it to 10% hull integrity, but then I discovered to my dismay that it was invulnerable, and a few more minutes later, it proceeded to finally jump out (which I assume it was supposed to do earlier ))

__________________
-"Oh God, please don't kill me today. Tomorrow is so much better."
Spathi prayer, Star-Control 2

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Warszawa Polska
Posts: 385

IMO it`s not So annoying that you cannot take down a corvette using "small: weapon. Say, you cannot destroy the inner parts of the hull so that a corvette cannot be fully destroyed. What REALLY annoyes me is that in some cases a disabled, turned off ship with not a single turret functoning, with all subsystems annihilated manages to warp out. It makes me upset a bit...
With 10% of hull integrity a ship is a wreck in fact. It can still be there - okay, let`s say it`s turned off anyway, but it shouldn`t be able to get out! I looks like an AI`s cheat.

__________________
Lasciate ogni speranza... Dante Alighieri
I`m not the king of your minds...

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged