***Combat Tactics 101 - Fighters***

[Dab]

Using multiple novas in a single attack run

Sorry Korrd but there is a way to do it...

This will not work on battleships as it will end as that dominoe effect Korrd was talking about, but it will work on cruisers and gunboats.

Start shooting at 900m or less, keep thruster on the entire run or this will not work. After the first shot slide to the right until you are a 800 (or 100 less than where you shot first from) then you shoot another. You can do this with a maximum of four novas. It is useful if you have very limited amounts of attack runs against a ship and the ship is manuverable enough to dodge some novas. Gunboats can dodge them and this technique is good against them, as you get them distracted and once they realize the novas are after it he can't do anything about it. I found this to best work against cruisers. Since they usually take a few novas to get hit by to die this increases the damage done in the same amount of time. Thus they have a shorter amount of overall time to shoot back.

This can also work with mortars but in a different way. This works best as a gunboat. Head at the person at impulse speed (80-90) and launch a mortar at one end of the ship. Then target the other end and shoot another. Then shoot one more straight at the center and get the heck out of there. If you shoot any more mortars the dominoe effect will happen. whent he torps hit one will hit each end and center, most likely destroying the ship. Against a gunboat you can also use three mortars but the third one must be launched 250+ m away from the other two. So wait till the mortars that were fired first are out of explosion range.

Using this against battleships depends on the size of the battleship. Say your facing a rheinland BS. shooting at one end, the other end, 1/8 from the first end 1/8 from the other end, 2/8 from the first, 2/8 from the 2nd, 3/8 from first, 3/8 from 2nd, and then in the center. That gives you 7 mortars being fired at the battleship. 5 for Kusari, 4 for liberty and Osiris, and 4 for the bretonian BS.

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