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Kyren:

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--- Quote from: TheMick on March 07, 2013, 03:15:12 pm ---what's your favorite counter to dedicated rammers? in other words, what do you recommend newbie crews do to survive? Go all defensive to escape and get situated? perhaps go offensive to try and turn them back? perhaps some good maneuvers for a noob captain to evade rammers?

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I will prefix this with I'm not a pilot, but my favorite tactic that I see on the ships that I fly on is to hydrogen above the would be ram, and swoopin behind to disable engines and kill the enemy... This may require some practice in the sandbox though

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Being a captain that usually carries Hydrogen and Chute Vent for just that, I can confirm it works wonders! And it works really fast, you're usually able to dive down or up just in front of that annoying Pyramidion that wants to ram you!

N-Sunderland:

--- Quote from: TheMick on March 07, 2013, 03:15:12 pm ---what's your favorite counter to dedicated rammers? in other words, what do you recommend newbie crews do to survive? Go all defensive to escape and get situated? perhaps go offensive to try and turn them back? perhaps some good maneuvers for a noob captain to evade rammers?

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One counter that I like is to fly a Pyramidion with two front gatlings. The other ships won't ram you if their hull is down (and if they do, they're suicidal). It's also good if you want to do some ramming yourself.

RearAdmiralZill:

--- Quote from: TheMick on March 07, 2013, 03:15:12 pm ---what's your favorite counter to dedicated rammers? in other words, what do you recommend newbie crews do to survive? Go all defensive to escape and get situated? perhaps go offensive to try and turn them back? perhaps some good maneuvers for a noob captain to evade rammers?

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As stated, a well timed Hydrogen or Chute Vent will work wonders. Be quick to turn your guns on them though or they will just come back in.

Another trick is to face them head on, and only reverse enough so that the force of the ram itself is significantly reduced. Occasionally they get pushed back, and even toward one side, giving you an advantage.

And always protect your balloon and hull during a ram. They are the first things to go 95% of the time.

TheMick:
Thanks to all I'll put that to use post haste.. though I'll be sad to ditch my tar barrels lol

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