[TrashMan]

I play that in an Athena. Take down fighters and cripple the anvil, then let the others take it down.

[QuantumDelta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDd8ylwttgk

Check out how easy this is.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

A no-missile run? Impressive.

By the way, QD, you should try using the Laser <-> Shield function sometime. You've got a lot of excess gun energy.

[Droid803]

Makes more sense to dump it into speed if you aren't taking that many hits.

[Det. Bullock]

I have a problem with the mission with the stealth fighter test in Freespace 2 (Sorry, but I always forget the name).
I'm trying to achieve all the mission secondary objectives  but I cannot figure out how to destroy the Shivan Cruiser.

[QuantumDelta]

You can do it with some unlikely missile I forgot the name of, or just stop the Acquitaine from being debeamed and stay close enough to it that the beams rip it to bits (you provide targeting support for the beams).

If you're still having trouble after this, try a higher (yes, higher) difficulty.

[Det. Bullock]

You can do it with some unlikely missile I forgot the name of, or just stop the Acquitaine from being debeamed and stay close enough to it that the beams rip it to bits (you provide targeting support for the beams).

If you're still having trouble after this, try a higher (yes, higher) difficulty.

Do you mean that the shivan fighters are targeting the Aquitaine beams, so I have to destroy them too before turning to the Tiamat?
Anyway I even tried to use the EMP missile to disrupt the Shivan Cruiser and take out its beam turrets but the Aquitaine always jumped out before destoying the cruiser.

[QuantumDelta]

I think it might have been EMP (rather a lot of them after 10% can kill it), but yea - the (maras?) debeam the acquitaine, but similarly the corvette will too if it strikes the right place with it's beam so you have to dispatch them ASAP.

[Jeff Vader]

Anyway I even tried to use the EMP missile to disrupt the Shivan Cruiser and take out its beam turrets but the Aquitaine always jumped out before destoying the cruiser.

I've heard that the EMP missile counts as a weapon that can destroy corvettes and larger vessels. The idea is probably to pound the Tiamat until it seems that it isn't taking any more damage, then using the EMP missiles to destroy it. (I forget which build I was using then, possibly 3.6.10 Final, but at some point in FSO development it has been possible to destroy corvettes and larger vessels with any weapon; you just have to shoot them for hours, and time compression is recommended.)

Anyways, protip: you won't get anything from destroying the Tiamat. If you protect the Aquitaine well enough, you get some medal.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Doesn't change the fact that the Recommendations will still say a lot of stuff, other than the usual "We have no recommendations for you.".

[Klaustrophobia]

i gave up on recommendations. 

[Det. Bullock]

i gave up on recommendations. 

Me too this time.
I decided after seeing the Tiamat jumping out with 1% hull.   

[Klaustrophobia]

i think i only ever got it killed once, the very first time i played through.  i did manage to disable it, and had a massive rage when the hull locked at 1% or whatever it was (after 4x time compressed blasting for about 10 minutes)

but what i meant by give up on recommendations is that they either never worked right or said anything useful, so i stopped clicking the button.

[S-99]

Lol, yeah, that big damage flag in fs2.