Cat and Mouse

The Cat and Mouse tactic. This normally done in larger battles of between four or more players. This is a little bit more, harder, to achieve but works well in larger battles. To get into a Cat and Mouse, you need to have all our team mates target the same guy as you. This way, you'll get him to run in a huge circle, breaking the commonly used Jousting method to dog fighting.

There's several way's to use this tactic, one of the way's that I use is getting behind the enemy pilot and leading him. You can do this by jousting towards him, quickly turn to where he's now in front of you and running in a circle. Tap your thruster key to where you can keep the targeting recital on his cross-hair, and fire away.

Another way, is by having two people jousting one target. That way, one of the two allies can slip behind the enemy and literally follow him from the back-side and nail him even more while he's turning. Normally people tend to ignore the "Shadow" ship, and focus on the main target. But if the "shadow" ship is quick enough, you can put enough damage into the enemy to make them think otherwise.

Last, the Cat and Mouse tactic can also be used if your in an Upgraded Light Fighter, and your facing a bomber, since bombers have slower turning speed you should be able to dance out of the way quickly to get behind the bomber before they have a chance to fire a shot at you.