[Valcion]

Hmmm...ok so this is what I've noticed.

When the Taurets(or anything, for that matter) were going head on with me, I would turn away, then try to flank them, except when i turned away, it gave them the initiative and they stayed on my tail the entire time and I couldn't shake them.

What I've noticed is that I had to vector the shield to the front, afterburner past them, then get into a turning contest.

I've found quite a bit of success using the second method, but the problem is that I still can't reliably dodge their shots, and especially if they decide to send a few missile my way since counter measure don't seem to work properly when I collide head on with missiles.

The other thing is that they don't seem to attack until they close in to about 600 range, which means quad Prometheus S would be great to snipe them from afar.

[eliex]

Yes, you'd think that some fighters are quite lousy but its only because of their current loadout!

Just look at the SF Basilisk. It has the capacity to carry about 80 hornets in one bank, IIRC, but gets destroyed by faster fighters. If the Basilisk's missile banks were changed to Tornados, Basilisks can easily take down the majority of fighters, head-on.

[Excalibur]

Ugh...then I get shot to death by the 2 AAA beams in the back. Anyways, I finally beat it, more due to luck than skill though (Iceni's beam killed the weapon subsystem for me like, 3 seconds after the Sobek jumped in). I'm starting to believe that mission hates me, since I can ALWAYS count on one of these things happen.

I fight back the first wave, I have good shield and hull (>80).
-Hinton get's mobbed, then Iceni dies because it refuses to fire it's beams
-Iceni refuse to hit the asteroids. I seriously failed this twice because Iceni went from 50 to 0.
-The Sobek hating on me. 6 times I got killed by it's anti-ship beams when it blasted through me to get to Iceni when I tried to use Iceni as missile blocks to evade the hax Taurets.

I fight back the first wave, I have poor hull(<30) due to Taurets using aim hax and I can't shake them, therefore taking a boatload of dmg.
-Taurets either all focus me, or they try to ram me, or both. This happened far too many time for it to be coincidence

I finally the both ship to the node, Iceni jumps out, all the fighter jumps out, Hinton's being a slowpoke, unlimited wings of Tauret (saggitarius iirc) jumps in and try to fry me while I'm alone and Hinton is taking it's sweet time.

Anyways, I don't imagine I'll be flying that mission again anytime soon, especially considering the bomber unlocked is bugged. Although I took comfort in that the last mission of the 1st SOC loop, I stayed back and all the fighters except Alpha2 got fragged by the turrets. The next few missions went really well, I even managed to save the AWAC ship during the TAG testing stage, something I've not been able to do the four times that I went through the campaign on normal.

You think you have problems? Try it on insane...
I ended that attempt and skipped.
'would have been good if I'd endered it. (first meaning)

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Sobek always scares the living daylights out of me,...

Spoiler:

...so I fly below it, while keeping out of the corvette's beam range, target its weapons subsystem and close in. I park myself directly below the corvette and pound its Weapons subsystems to smithereens. It seems to work wonders, because I never got hit by it after that.

[S-99]

be a man and trample the beam turrets leaving you with barely any hull left and smash trough any tauret!

Manly indeed There's also flying through a lilith main beam in an ares, manly also

This all reminds me of the last mission of the soc loop. Back in the day when i first started to play. I didn't know that you could destroy the ntf wing that you were part of right off the bat and the gtva just comes in. I always played that mission like 2 or 3 times taking on the ntf fighters by myself, and then when they're all destroyed after much difficulty, then my gtva ride comes for me.

I always liked the soc missions, they're very well done, and are nicely difficult missions. The second soc mission, that ones still pretty difficult. Talk about thin escort for a couple of ships.

[ravi80k]

undercover SOC missions are great. Do you remember the Mission 19 it is called But hate the traitor. i really liked it, because it is bit challenging, If you can recall we have to destroy 6 (I think it is right) targets. 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

...But Hate The Traitor is okay. Not exactly my cup of tea. I prefer Their Finest Hour, which is probably the closest mission to a turkey shoot that the single player campaign has to offer.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, Androgeos, think you might be talking to a bot.

[Goober5000]

Maybe not a bot, as it was topical and coherent.  But brass knuckles are illegal in the USA, and posting links to illegal things violates our TOS, so that's good enough for a ban.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Maybe not a bot, as it was topical and coherent.  But brass knuckles are illegal in the USA, and posting links to illegal things violates our TOS, so that's good enough for a ban.

Did he do all that?

[Goober5000]

Didn't you see the link in his signature?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

He had a signature? I guess I missed it, because I never did see him having one.

[Mongoose]

I was confused as to why the post was reported as being from a bot to begin with, as it correctly referenced a specific mission within the game and was actually on-topic.  I don't want to meet the bot that's capable of doing that.

(Huh, I wasn't aware that brass knuckles were flat-out illegal in multiple states.  Learn something new every day.)