[Starks]

How many Manticores and Dragons were you able to take down in the "exploding cargo depot" mission in FS1? *WITHOUT CHEATING*

I've taken down 2 Manticores, those Dragons are too fast.

(Bonus: Have you ever destroyed the Cain that jumps in?)

[Thorn]

I have a hard time taking down Dragons period. Bastards are too quick.

[TopAce]

I never tried it. I think [V] made that Cain invulnerable.

[Gloriano]

Dragons are darn fast but I killed few of them in that mission

[TopAce]

A few is more than nothing.

[mrfun]

I think I've doen 3 or 4 manticores, but if I hang around that long killing fighters I inevitably die a horrible death when I finally get around to scanning the cargo.  If I want to pass the misssion I ignore the fighters entirely and run around scanning cargo like a rabid squirrel looking for nuts.

[Blaise Russel]

Well, the Cain is the Taranis, so if you could destroy it, it would be a bit silly, no?

[WMCoolmon]

Actually, I know I disabled and disarmed it in one of the missions *before* you're supposed to capture it, once.

I don't know if that was the mission though, I remember it having an Aten or something in it.

[Blaise Russel]

Yes, the one with the Ramses.

I always got stuck on that mission because the Shivans were too incompetant to actually destroy the Aten cruiser, so I always ended up floating around, waiting for the mission to end.

[Col. Fishguts]

There's a bug  in that mission, but only sometimes...IIRC it only happened to me after installing the 1.06 patch.

[Darkage]

Happend to me once. I ended up destroying the ramses my self to continue to the next mission.

[Starks]

This is one with the exploding cargo, not the Ramses...

[Blaise Russel]

Yes, and that is known to us. However, you asked if anyone had destroyed the Taranis in 'Pandora's Box', and I expressed my doubts that you could, because the Taranis appears in later missions - most notably, the buggy one where you're supposed to fail to capture the Ramses but what actually happens is that the Shivans fail to destroy the Aten, and so the player often flies around, stuck in the endless mission, and so disarms and disables the Taranis in utter boredom. Which is somewhat similar to destroying the Taranis. Which was the subject of your initial 'bonus' question. And the subject of my response. Yes.

See? It all makes perfect sense.

[TopAce]

There are so many fighters and bombers. I have never seen them fail to destroy the Ramses. When they suffer for too long, I help them. I often start firing at it as soon as the Taranis arrives, just to make the mission shorter. Inspired by this thread, I should try to destroy the Taranis. I am really curious. I have $10 that ship has the ship-guardian.
Before this post drives anybody up the wall, let me say that: YES! I am talking about the 'Capture the Ramses' mission, not the 'Capture Shivan cargo' one. Facing a Cain with several Shivan fighters on your back and two banks of ML-16s in your primary backs is simply crazy.

[Airborne]

This is a little off-topic but, the "Hellfire" mission is in the Silent Threat expansion is it not? That's one of my favorite missions ever. There's swarms of fighters and Shivan cruisers.

[Blaise Russel]

I'm pretty sure, if you destroy the Taranis, Command yells at you and you fail the mission.

[Starks]

Whatever happened to the SB Shaitan?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Blaise Russel
I'm pretty sure, if you destroy the Taranis, Command yells at you and you fail the mission.

In which missions? The Pandora's box?

Originally posted by LLivingLarge
Whatever happened to the SB Shaitan?

What do you mean?

[Blaise Russel]

In the one with the Ramses, certainly. Not sure about 'Pandora's Box'.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by LLivingLarge
Whatever happened to the SB Shaitan?

It was Shait. So :V: dropped it.