[IceFire]

is a crap mission, i must of played that mission more than 50 times andnot once have i destroy the tiamat.

ive tried a range of offensive moves, none witch seems to of worked..

Just pound the Tiamat's beam cannons and missile launchers with as much destructive weaponry you've got while your wingmen defend the Aquitane.  Its a race to bring the corvette down to 10% in the shortest time. Then let the Aquitane's beams finish the final 10%.

[Centrixo]

tempests and hornets?

but then you got fighters on your wingmens tail shooting your wingmen down, and a favorable solution is harpoons. so i stuck with a trade off.

[karajorma]

You know, honestly, I'm inclined to agree... that mission isn't very well thought out, and the EMP missiles, in fact, do not have the Big Damage flag

Yes they do. Or you're using wonky tables.

No they don't. I just checked weapons.tbl fresh out of root_fs2.vp to make certain. The only flags it has are Player-allowed and EMP. I have no idea why the rumour persists that it is flagged huge but it isn't. And I even went back and checked the 1.0 tables from the root_fs2.vp in my old HotU install to see if it was a 1.0 vs 1.2 thing.

[IceFire]

tempests and hornets?

but then you got fighters on your wingmens tail shooting your wingmen down, and a favorable solution is harpoons. so i stuck with a trade off.

Just tell your wingmen to attack the enemy...don't give them guard orders.  Let them seek and destroy.  Problem solved.

Tempests and Hornets are ideal for just absolutely pummeling the Tiamat. If you can rope a wingman in that helps too.