Missile tactics - Revision history

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‎Normal usage: Hardened missiles don't have more explosive power than normal ones.

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 (vi) target an enemy with one of your own missiles (forcing them to use ECM which clobbers their own missiles too)
-If being chased by a ECM hardened missile, (or a regular missile if you don't have an ECM), and if you don't have injectors, increase speed to max, view the missile in your rear view and when it gets close quickly reduce speed and pitch up/down (faster than yawing) to change direction by 90 degrees then increase to max speed. Once you get the hang of this missiles tend to overshoot. Do this 2 or 3 times and the missile exhausts its fuel and explodes.
+{{QuoteText|Text=If being chased by a ECM hardened missile, (or a regular missile if you don't have an ECM), and if you don't have injectors, increase speed to maximum, view the missile in your rear view and when it gets close quickly reduce speed and pitch up/down (faster than yawing) to change direction by 90 degrees then increase to max speed. Once you get the hang of this missiles tend to overshoot. Do this 2 or 3 times and the missile exhausts its fuel and explodes.
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 Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.
-=== Dealing with missiles ===
+== Dealing with enemy missiles ==
 The obvious methods are
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 (vi) target an enemy with one of your own missiles (forcing them to use ECM which clobbers their own missiles too)
 If being chased by a ECM hardened missile, (or a regular missile if you don't have an ECM), and if you don't have injectors, increase speed to max, view the missile in your rear view and when it gets close quickly reduce speed and pitch up/down (faster than yawing) to change direction by 90 degrees then increase to max speed. Once you get the hang of this missiles tend to overshoot. Do this 2 or 3 times and the missile exhausts its fuel and explodes.
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	Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.		Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.
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		+	=== Dealing with missiles ===
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		+	The obvious methods are
		+	(i) run away (avoids some of the kinetic damage of hitting it face on),
		+	(ii) run away with fuel injectors (if you have them),
		+	(iii) use ECM (if you have it - less useful against hardened missiles),
		+	(iv) shoot it down with your laser (might be difficult without a [[Guide to Accuracy OXPs\|laser-locking OXP]]),
		+	(v) target it with one of your own missiles
		+	(vi) target an enemy with one of your own missiles (forcing them to use ECM which clobbers their own missiles too)
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		+	If being chased by a ECM hardened missile, (or a regular missile if you don't have an ECM), and if you don't have injectors, increase speed to max, view the missile in your rear view and when it gets close quickly reduce speed and pitch up/down (faster than yawing) to change direction by 90 degrees then increase to max speed. Once you get the hang of this missiles tend to overshoot. Do this 2 or 3 times and the missile exhausts its fuel and explodes.

	== Other advice pages ==		== Other advice pages ==

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	*'''OoliteRS''' (Reference Sheets) came as a .pdf in your original game download. Contains a list of relevant Oolite keyboard commands. Probably worth printing out!		*'''OoliteRS''' (Reference Sheets) came as a .pdf in your original game download. Contains a list of relevant Oolite keyboard commands. Probably worth printing out!

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 == Standard missiles ==
-As stated earlier, standard missiles are of limited use in today's combat environment, when virtually any ship prepared for combat will carry an ECM. Standard missiles are almost always destroyed by an ECM. However, they are not entirely useless.
+As stated earlier, standard missiles are of limited use in today's combat environment, when virtually any ship prepared for combat will carry an ECM. Standard missiles are almost always destroyed by an ECM. However, they are not entirely useless.<br>
 === General usage ===

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 Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.
-=== Other advice pages ===
+== Other advice pages ==
 *[[How do I ...]] dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick ''etc''

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	Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.		Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.
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		+	=== Other advice pages ===
		+	*[[How do I ...]] dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick ''etc''

	[[Category:Oolite]]		[[Category:Oolite]]

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 Since you can be confident that your missiles will survive for their full fuel burn time, it is often advantageous to fire several hardened missiles at once. It's not recommended to use more than one missile on a single target (except in desperation) - this is a huge waste of resources. For better shielded targets it is not a bad idea to fire a hardened missile, wait for the target to use their ECM, then follow up with a standard missile. It's quite likely that the target won't bother firing its ECM again, and will be hit by both missiles. Don't bother doing this if the target flees - even cheap standard missiles shouldn't be wasted. If you do follow up with a standard missile, the advice about not firing any more missiles at other targets applies since they may ECM your standard missile.
-If you are carrying nothing but hardened missiles, and are attacked by several ships (a typical pirate attack), it may be to your advantage to fire several missiles at several targets. This will immediately free you up to attack further enemies. How many missiles you fire really depends on the situation. Use your multi-targeting system to line up a target for each of your missiles, and then fire off a couple. This will immediately stop or seriously degrade attacks from two of your enemies. Concentrate on another enemy with your lasers. If it is still 'too hot', fire off an additional missile (or two, depending on how many enemies there are) which you have pre-targeted. Hardened missiles are more powerful than the standard, and can take out a Cobra Mk.3 in one hit, or seriously damage larger ships such as a Python.
+If you are carrying nothing but hardened missiles, and are attacked by several ships (a typical pirate attack), it may be to your advantage to fire several missiles at several targets. This will immediately free you up to attack further enemies. How many missiles you fire really depends on the situation. Use your multi-targeting system to line up a target for each of your missiles, and then fire off a couple. This will immediately stop or seriously degrade attacks from two of your enemies. Concentrate on another enemy with your lasers. If it is still 'too hot', fire off an additional missile (or two, depending on how many enemies there are) which you have pre-targeted. Missiles can take out a Cobra Mk.3 in one hit, or seriously damage larger ships such as a Python.
 Using the multi-targeter and hardened missiles is also a good tactic to employ when you are ambushed by Thargoids. The missile is strong enough to seriously damage a Thargoid warship. Since Thargoid warships will spew Thargons (which also will attack you), line up the motherships with the multi targeting system and fire all your missiles. Thargoids do not break off their attacks when a missile is pursuing them - but it will seriously weaken the motherships allowing you to destroy them before they destroy you.