[colecampbell666]

Yeah, in the gauntlets in FS1, a trick is to disable one of the endless waves of Cruiser/Destroyer guards, and kill the rest. It stays for a few minutes, giving a respite from attack, but eventually self-destructs.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I've found that after destroying every subsystem on a fighter with the Akehton, it self-destructs eventually. Or you can do ram attacks. As for stupid Alpha 2 in that TAG missile mission, she gets disabled, and all the Shivans are sitting there firing Ulysesly at her because she has ship gaurdian or something on, then as soon as reinforcments arrive, "aaaaaaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!"

I wonder what Alpha 2 was doing in A Game of TAG. When I told her to protect the Warspite, she flew back without using her afterburners, so she died because some Mara parked itself behind her and was happily blasting away at her rear.

[Snail]

Wingmen are teh smex.

[colecampbell666]

Yeah, when you tell them to C-3-7, thus escaping danger, they never use burners.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

They hardly use their burners for anything.

[Snail]

They hardly use their burners for anything.

Except for flying into your field of fire, at which point they stop and stay put.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

They hardly use their burners for anything.

Except for flying into your field of fire, at which point they stop and stay put.

...until you collide into them, upon which they fly off.

[Snail]

...until you collide into them, upon which they fly off.

Or if you use the Maxim-Kayser combo, they just get blown up. Then all the other wingmen go all pissy on you and turn red.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Or if you use the Maxim-Kayser combo, they just get blown up. Then all the other wingmen go all pissy on you and turn red.

...and fly circles around you until you restart the mission, abort, or blow them up.

[Droid803]

I hit them with dual trebs and kill them instantly.
Command and my other wingmen see that as an unfortunate accident, and proceed to do nothing about my team-killing

[Excalibur]

They do when flying towards a target 4000m away - well, sometimes. Or if you shoot them, an 0.50s burst is really going to save them if it was a real enemy...

They hardly use their burners for anything.

Except for flying into your field of fire, at which point they stop and stay put.

...until you collide into them, upon which they fly off.

And in the chasing Iceni mission, they sit there colliding with each other until the enemy arrives.

[Snail]

Order all your wingmen to protect a Poseidon. Crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrash kaboom.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Order all your wingmen to protect a Poseidon. Crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrash kaboom.

Or make all your wingmen invincible in Bearbaiting, complete the mission, disable invulnerability on all of them, use C-3-7 and fly about in circles.

[Stormkeeper]

I wonder what Alpha 2 was doing in A Game of TAG. When I told her to protect the Warspite, she flew back without using her afterburners, so she died because some Mara parked itself behind her and was happily blasting away at her rear.

She had rear feedback turned way up.

Order all your wingmen to protect a Poseidon. Crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrash kaboom.

My wingmen tend to suicide 24/7, though I applaud their bravery when they e.g charge head first at an Aeolus.

[Excalibur]

You order them to cover you when you are 1500m away from an enemy and they keep fighting.

Order all your wingmen to protect a Poseidon. Crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrash kaboom.

Or make all your wingmen invincible in Bearbaiting, complete the mission, disable invulnerability on all of them, use C-3-7 and fly about in circles.

Just create a mission in FRED2 with 50 fighters and order them to cover you and fly around in circles. Then order them to all return to base to see a massive warpout. Or stay in exactly the same spot when you start the mission, order them to form on your wing and make a large square ship like an Orion warp in, just missing your rear by a few metres...

[Stormkeeper]

I think they're literally covering you, i.e, shielding you from enemy fire, missiles, bombs, beams and sunlight.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Or stay in exactly the same spot when you start the mission, order them to form on your wing and make a large square ship like an Orion warp in, just missing your rear by a few metres...

How about a Sathanas?

I think they're literally covering you, i.e, shielding you from enemy fire, missiles, bombs, beams and sunlight.

Well, the "Cover Me" command is basically the same as "Protect My Target", so what they do is fly circles around you. If they target you and see those dots indicating that an enemy is targeting you, they break and attack your attacker.

[Dilmah G]

Or stay in exactly the same spot when you start the mission, order them to form on your wing and make a large square ship like an Orion warp in, just missing your rear by a few metres...

How about a Sathanas?

I think they're literally covering you, i.e, shielding you from enemy fire, missiles, bombs, beams and sunlight.

Well, the "Cover Me" command is basically the same as "Protect My Target", so what they do is fly circles around you. If they target you and see those dots indicating that an enemy is targeting you, they break and attack your attacker.

How nice of them

[Androgeos Exeunt]

If you're moving, however, they'll fly in formation around you instead, which is almost the same as "Form On My Wing", only that they will pursue your attackers instead of flying at your speed and letting your enemies smoke them.